The President’s Leadership Program (PLP) is not just an academic program. At heart, we are a community determined to better understand ourselves, how we work with others and the impact we can have in the world.
Through a combination of academic study, experiential learning and personal development, PLP will prepare you for a life of leadership, service and civic responsibility.
Over the course of four years, students in PLP become:
Lacey Grey Hunter
Director, President's Leadership Program, Christopher Newport University
Lori Throupe
Instructor of Leadership Studies & Faculty Director of Academic Success, Christopher Newport University
Followership Trailblazer Award
Michael W. Linville & Mark A. Rennaker
Global Followership Award
Wajeeha Ghias
Heart of Followership Award
Sharna Fabiano
Followership Founder Award
Ira Chaleff
Alternative Perspectives: Followership from Non-Western and Minority Perspectives
Followership and 86 Shared Leadership Behaviors: It’s All About the Behaviors
Primacy: In Democracies and the Fight to Save Our One Shared Planet, Followers Must Take the Lead
Followership, Leadership, and Collaboration: How Competent Followers, Develop Effective Leaders in the Educational Setting
Changing Leader Attitudes on Followership
Followership and the Art of Storytelling: The Alchemy of Transformation
Followership and Gender
The Implications of Shifting to Leadership and Followership as Systems: Leader + Follower + Organizational Context + Common Purpose
At the core of followership is personhood – We start there
The Followership Ally: How Allyship is Strengthened by Followership Theory
Fee for Followership? The Age of Following an Influencer
Followership and...Design
Followership and Discourse(s) Over Time
Followership in Non-Western Cultures
Relational Ontology - A Philosophical Foundation for The Leader/Follower Dynamic
Rethinking Organizational Followership Development as Part of Human Resources Strategies
Followership has Two Faces: Exploring the Lived Experience of Followers in Cross-Cultural Teams
Putting Followers First: Courageous Followership and Empowering Leadership- Role of Power Distance
Let’s Talk Followership: Stories of Black Women, Legacy, and Strength
Followership Education: Main Event or Side Show in Leadership Education?
Followership and Leadership Applied in the Complex Adaptive Global Environment
Followership, Ethics, and Social Movements
Global Followership: What We Know and Where Should We Go?
Charles Sanders Peirce on the Study of Great Men: A Course in Logic
Why Do Team Players Cheat? The Complex Interplay Among Organizational Identification, Moral Disengagement, and Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior
Global Followers’ Identities and Their Influence on the Leadership Process: A Phenomenological Study
Enhancing the Culture of Followership Among Youths: The Case of Teens and Youths in Leadership (TYIL) in Nigeria
Followership and Talent Management Using Information Technology
The Secret Sauce for Rapid Disruptive Change: A Case Study of Millennial Leadership & Multigenerational Followership in Dynamic Relationships
Rethinking Organizational Followership Development as Part of Human Resources Strategies
Autonomous or Indentured Servant? A Descriptive Analysis of The Symbology of Student-Athlete Followership Among Student-Athletes In National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Institutions
The Secret Sauce for Rapid Disruptive Change: A Case Study of Millennial Leadership & Multigenerational Followership in Dynamic Relationships
Followership and Ethics
The Relationship between Social Skills and Attitudes and Folllowership Styles
Improvisational Techniques for Leadership and Followership Learning
Increasing the Capacity of Leadership Educators to Teach Followership
How to Introduce Followership to a New Group of People: A Practitioner and Instructor Guide
Followership and Cultural Humility are Essential Practices for Healthcare Professionals
The Six “I” Model and Followership as Tools to Identify and Respond to Poor Leaders
Letters to Leaders: A Followership-Centric Diagnostic Process
Followership and…Critical Thinking
Designing Followership Research Across Cultures and Societies: Commitment to Integrity
Mediating Emotions: Expanding the Followership Typology
Servant Followership
How Primary School Teachers of English in Kenya Construct Their Followership Identity
A Proposal for Compassionate Leadership Theory: Linking Followership and Leadership
Obedience in Followership: Phenomenological research to increase the understanding of obedience in followers
Followership In the Service Industry: Research Constructs and Lived Experiences Juxtaposed
Followership Responses And… Leadership Behaviors in Global Contexts: Toward the Development of a Relational-Based Followership Typology
Followership And… Leadership in Global Contexts: How individuals Lead and Follow in Different Cultures
Instead of fresh food, we're in the market for fresh ideas. The Friday afternoon Followership Farmers Market was a special feature of this year's conference, a place to learn about a fantastic new followership book, course, or development tool.
The market brought together authors, podcasters, inventors, trainers, creators, debaters and peddlers of other provocative followership goods, as well as a fine selection of followership posters sharing the latest research and scholarly explorations in bite-size formats.
It was a place where serendipitous followership community was created, where surprising followership discoveries were made, and where we even had some unexpected followership fun!
Photo courtesy Christopher Newport University, host of the 2023 Global Followership Conference.
STRATEGIC PLANNING
Lacey Grey Hunter, Conference Co-Chair
Lori Throupe, Conference Co-Chair
Emma Rieco, Logistics Lead
Ira Chaleff
Wendy M. Edmonds
Sharna Fabiano, Marketing Co-Chair
Marc Hurwitz, Programming Co-Chair
Samantha Hurwitz
Dan Jenkins, Programming Co-Chair
ONSITE OPERATIONS
Lacey Grey Hunter, Co-Chair
Lori Throupe, Co-Chair
Emma Rieco, Logistics Lead
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Sharna Fabiano, Co-Chair
Brian Rook, Co-Chair
Samantha Hurwitz
Eric Kaufman
Amanda Wilfong, CNU student intern
PROGRAMMING
Marc Hurwitz, Co-Chair
Dan Jenkins, Co-Chair
Kat Callahan
Stephanie Gresh
Abdurrahim Hocagil
Rachael Thompson
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PROPOSAL REVIEWERS
Nana Arthur-Mensah
Gary C Crutchfield
Robert J. Cruz
Dr. Tiffanie Dillard
William Donaldson
Chris Fuzie, Ed.D.
Wajeeha Ghias
Doris Adams Hill
Allen-Christopher Hubbard
Marc Hurwitz
Eric K Kaufman
Greg Malone
Tony Middlebrooks
David Ofumbi
Jim Payne
David Scott
Lynn Shollen
Dr. Anton Shufutinsky
Hannah Sims
Dr. Lewis Steinhoff
Jennifer Strong
Donald Williams
Tobey Zimber