Eric Guthey
Associate Professor
Primary research areas
Leadership and Leadership Development
The Cultural Production of Leadership
What is leadership, really?
I promote dialogue and reflection about how people understand and practice leadership.
My research explores how leadership is produced and practiced across organizations, markets, and cultures. I study the industries, institutions, and media that shape who counts as a leader and how ideas of leadership reflect and reproduce wider social hierarchies of gender, race, and power.
I connect critical scholarship to practice and systems change.
I work with students, colleagues, and partners to rethink how leadership education and development can support collaboration, inclusion, and ethical transformation. My work helps organizations and educators approach leadership not only as an matter of what individual leaders do, but as a collective process of learning, responsibility, and social change.