Keynote Summary: The emergence of atypical leaders and their role in equality, diversity, and inclusion-led changes at work – towards a co-design approach

Authors

  • Mustafa F. Özbilgin Brunel Business School

Keywords:

Gender & STEM; leadership; equality, diversity, and inclusion

Abstract

Leadership talent pools have unprecedented levels of demographic diversity internationally. Yet, leadership diversity remains a global aspiration, particularly in the STEM workforce. Much hope is placed on the emergence of atypical leaders to foster equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)-led changes at work. This paper questions how atypical leaders may support EDI-led changes. Drawing on recent literature on atypical leaders, I explain the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of atypical leaders’ experience reconciling becoming part of a typical leadership elite (orthodoxy) and being part of an atypical socio-demographic background (heterodoxy). The paper concludes with an overview of how atypical leaders’ emergence and support for EDI-led transformation could be fostered to benefit STEM fields, and more broadly.

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Published

19-12-2022

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2022): Addressing Gender Inequities in STEM through Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Special Issue: Addressing Gender Inequities in STEM through Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Keynote Summary: The emergence of atypical leaders and their role in equality, diversity, and inclusion-led changes at work – towards a co-design approach. (2022). International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 14(2), 176-182. https://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/view/1262