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How does identity influence and shape leadership development? To effectively address this question, we need to answer a more fundamental question, namely, how do we conceive of identity? We have a tendency to view identity in singular terms: I am a white person, I am a woman, or I am Asian. However, identity is more accurately conceived in multiple terms: I am a Muslim biologist of color. Capturing the role of these multiple identities in leadership development is a more complex undertaking, but not to do so risks oversimplifying the inherently multiple character of identity and not fully understanding leadership effectiveness.
“I am large… I contain multitudes.” Song of Myself, Walt Whitman
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Debebe, G., Reinert, K.A. (2014). Leading with Our Whole Selves: A Multiple Identity Approach to Leadership Development. In: Miville, M., Ferguson, A. (eds) Handbook of Race-Ethnicity and Gender in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8860-6_12
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