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This application brief shares Phase One of an action research project for the Association of Leadership Educators. This project demonstrates how a member-based association can successfully engage its members in terms of identifying needs, defining strategic priorities, and detecting resource development opportunities. This body of work has various implications for leadership and leadership education and provides a model that other associations can replicate to engage in resource development.

A brief history of the association’s first 25 years since its inception is provided in this brief and the work of the Resource Development Committee is presented. The findings from two focus group sessions conducted during the 2014 annual conference are highlighted and the paper closes with a discussion of how the Resource Development Committee can, through specific initiatives, support the association’s wellbeing and strategic direction. By sharing the rationale behind the Association of Leadership Educators board of directors’ decision to invest in a resource development strategy, other association leaders can access and implement a similar action plan to generate additional revenue which, in turn, can be used to enhance association membership services.

The JOLE Editorial Advisory Board provides an introduction to the 20th anniversary issue of The Journal of Leadership Education.

This paper highlights an assignment in a combination upper-division undergraduate and graduate civic leadership class at a Midwestern state comprehensive university. The three-part assignment challenges students’ critical thinking skills and research capabilities while simultaneously necessitating the exploration of contrasting viewpoints on contentious issues.

Intentionally exposing students to diverse perspectives in a controlled environment.

We posit that the severity and frequency of these issues can be mitigated through focused efforts.

Students are better prepared to engage in civil debate on controversial topics, which continuously divide our communities, after completing a class using this pedagogical strategy.

Sometimes a person’s tomorrows are not what they planned. What do you do when an expected future defies all logic and the life you prepared for through years of careful planning and sacrifice no longer exists?

Travel with Dr Noble as she guides you through her journey – from a life of sheer happiness and bliss to one of heartache and then utter devastation while she careened from one personal tragedy to the next during the darkest of days. Not only will you explore these experiences through her lens, but also you will learn about the ways in which she emerged from these tragedies stronger, braver, and more determined. With love in her heart and peace in her soul, she is honoring her late husband by living life courageously and seeking joy.

Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is real. It is also a process – a process that can take days or years to work through. In this chapter, Dr Noble will share the strategies she developed during her PTG period and the valuable personal lessons she learned as she began to heal and moved forward to carve out a new future for herself.