Narrative Leadership Development: Storytelling for Navigating Challenging Times

This book explores narratives' contribution to leadership development and how the development of narrative leadership provides leaders opportunities in an age of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.

Bringing together educators, researchers, coaches and practitioners, the book traverses the dark side of leadership storytelling, leadership storytelling for inclusiveness and innovative narrative practices. It introduces critical concepts such as narrative betrayal, narrative humility and narrative reflexivity, in order to examine storytelling not only as a source of inspiration and belonging, but also as a site of ethical tension, power, and responsibility. This book will deepen readers understanding of how and why storytelling is important in leader and leadership development contexts and gain practical tools and strategies for leadership development.

Ideal for leadership educators, facilitators, researchers, and organizational practitioners, this book provides essential tools and perspectives for developing leaders in today's complex world. More than a toolkit, it is an invitation to reflect more deeply on leadership itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1041222211
• ISBN13: 9781041222217
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages