Preparing Leadership Educators: A Comprehensive Guide to Theories, Practices, and Facilitation Skills

This comprehensive and integrated resource prepares leadership educators to develop their training and facilitation practice that is informed by theory, imbued with healthy leadership habits, and imparted with time-tested facilitation techniques―particularly experiential learning and reflective dialogue.

There are plenty of resources for those who desire to practice leadership more effectively. What has been absent until now is an extensive and accessible compilation of resources and preparatory materials for those who facilitate the leadership training and development of others. Leadership educators are responsible for preparing the next generations of change-makers to develop the leadership skills and capacities they need to navigate the challenges in the decades ahead. They engage organizations and communities to become the holding environments and learning laboratories that empower connections of meaning and depth, embolden courageous exploration, and enable needed structural and systemic change. Jonathan Kroll offers this book as a resource to help readers become exceptional leadership educators―those who can empower others to enhance their leadership skills, capacities, andefficacy.

Designed to prepare those who are charged with the leadership training and development of others, this book includes: two dozen leadership theories, models, frameworks, and topics; an extensive collection of leadership practices; and tactics for facilitating powerful training experiences that are infused with experiential learning activities and reflective dialogue. Included with each theory and practice (40+) are detailed and easy-to-follow instructions on how to facilitate specific experiential learning activities―along with go-to reflective dialogue questions―that bring the topics to life and ensure this book serves as a practical resource.

Jonathan Kroll is a leadership educator and entrepreneur. He began his career in higher education (Student Affairs) by focusing on leadership development, community engagement, and reflection initiatives. He has co-founded two leadership training businesses and, during the last decade, has facilitated hundreds of leadership workshops, retreats, trainings, and conference presentations to thousands of participants across four continents.

Jonathan serves as the Program Director and Assistant Teaching Professor in the Professional Leadership Studies program at the University of Rhode Island. He also founded and serves as the Executive Director and a Master Trainer for Leadership Trainer―a Boston-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that focuses exclusively and explicitly on trainer preparation.

Jonathan earned a PhD from Fielding Graduate University in Leadership with a focus in Group Mentoring. He consults, writes, and teaches about leadership, mentoring, and training/facilitation. Contact Jonathan at: Jonathan.Kroll@LeadershipTrainer.org