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Exploring the Dilemmas of Leadership in
Latin America

The International Leadership Association (ILA) with The Center for Leadership, Ethics and Social Responsibility (CLERS) at Universidad del Pacífico cordially invite all those who practice, study, and teach leadership to a scholar-practitioner conference on the Universidad del Pacífico campus the 8th to 10th of August 2018.

For generations, inequality and instability have affected countries throughout the world and in Latin America, countries have developed a complex matrix of dimensions and challenges for its leaders regarding gender imbalance, ethnic and racial discrimination, lack of environmental regulations, and access for all socioeconomic groups to quality public services in education, health, jobs, and housing.

Building leadership throughout the region at all levels of society is a pivotal step to addressing these political, economic, social, and ethical challenges and strengthening Latin America's countries and communities. This conference will address questions of leadership related to those challenges, such as:

• What role do Latin American leaders play in designing socio-economic development programs to foster inclusion by levering innovation and new thinking to create sustainable ecosystems to improve people's lives?
• What are the new strategies and cutting edge thinking that will promote more participation of civil society in public affairs?
• What types of leadership do Latin American societies need to move forward in the transformation of their own communities?
• What types of leaders are needed to recognize what factors hinder or slow down the transformational process and how might they be overcome?
• What are the leadership success stories and trends currently taking shape across Latin America?
• What role can international corporations and NGO's play in meeting these challenges in Latin America?
• What are the skills that leaders need to have or improve in order to manage or promote in the region, the social and cultural diversity that form the Latin America reality, and how does higher education and leadership development address that?
• How do these dilemmas and success stories inform and/or illustrate the three pillars of sustainable development on which the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are built: Social Progress, Economic Growth, and Environmental Protection?

The conference will explore these and related questions and challenges, providing a forum for international and local experts and stakeholders from different sectors in society — businesses, consultants, education, research, government, health, and non-profit — to share their theory, experiences, ideas, research, and best practices.

These challenges include but are not limited to: questionable democratic systems, weak education and government institutions, the vulnerability of economic markets and businesses, recurrence of social conflicts, the challenges of climate change on coast lines and farming communities, prevalent deforestation, an uptick in migration and refugees, equal access and modern pathways to a higher education, and the unprecedented expansion of corruption in all levels of government and the private sector. Within these contextual nuances of Latin America today, if change is to occur, the leaders of political and civic organizations, in addition to business and higher-education leaders, must foster new paradigms that nurture and enable comprehensive socio-economic development that systematically and sustainably transforms the Latin American leadership landscape.

We invite you to Lima to participate in an enriching discussion and exchange of ideas and experiences that can lead to a better understanding of and exploration of the dilemmas of leadership in Latin America and the nature of the decisions that lie ahead.

The mission of the International Leadership Association is to promote a deeper understanding of leadership knowledge and practices for the greater good of individuals and communities worldwide. Leaders and organizations in Latin America and throughout the Caribbean can help to achieve and to extend this mission in meaningful new ways. For this reason, conference organizers seek to forge connections and promote exchanges among leaders and managers from the public, private, arts, religious, and civil society sectors; professionals and consultants in the field of leadership and organizational development; social entrepreneurs and social movement organizers; youth leaders and student activists; and scholars and students of leadership and organizations. We invite conference participation from these and other leadership contexts, and we look forward to working with a wide range of old and new friends and colleagues from Latin America and around the world.

Please note: The official language of the Exploring the Dilemmas of Leadership in Latin America conference is English. Translation services will not be provided. But also take note, presentations in Spanish will be available in some presentation rooms.

Threads to Consider:

• Diversity and Inclusion
• Economic Growth
• Environmental Protection
• Higher Education
• Social Progress & Responsibility
• United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Proposal Collaboration Opportunity

Are you interested in finding colleagues with whom to submit a conference proposal while building your global network? Members, post your idea on ILA Intersections to find potential co-presenters!

Acceptance Status Notification

Acceptance status notifications will be emailed to everyone by the 1st of April 2018. It is vital that your ILA profile includes a valid email and daytime phone number. In addition, please ensure that your email system will accept messages from @allacademic.com and @ila-net.org — and that the messages don't go to your clutter or spam folder.

If accepted, the next step will be to confirm your conference participation by the 15th of April 2018 by registering for the conference. If you have not registered for the conference by 15 April, your presentation will be subject to removal from the schedule and the presentation slot offered to someone committed to attending.

ILA Profile or CFP Submission Inquiries

Please contact 2018peruCFP@ila-net.org or +1 (202) 470-4818 with questions or for assistance with the CFP.

If you have trouble logging into your ILA profile, please contact our membership team at +1 (202) 470-4818 or membership@ila-net.org.

Tips for Submitting

• As you organize your submission, ask your co-presenters if they are already part of the ILA and if not, you'll need their name, title, organization, and email address. You can go here and type their email address to see if they are already in the system. If they are new, you (or they) can add them before you begin or as you complete your submission. Note: it takes an hour for the ILA database and the CFP systems to sync.


• Create your submission in a word-processing program first and save it. Copy and paste information into the online system.


• Proposals should not include presenter names, affiliations, or any other identifying information in the title, description or abstract. Submissions that include any identifying information on the first page may be subject to immediate rejection. You will add yourself and your copresenters on the second page and this information will not be visible to the reviewers. Accepted proposals will have the opportunity to revise and include identifying information at a later date.


• The online submission system will timeout after 60 minutes if you stay on the same page. You can refresh your session by clicking on the timer in the gray header at the top of every page. Note: if your session times out and you have not finished submitting your proposal, you will have to start over. A proposal is not saved until it is completely submitted.


• Be sure to click on the "Accept and Continue" button at the bottom of each page until you reach the confirmation page. When a proposal is successfully submitted, the system will display a confirmation page and will send a confirmation message to the email address in your ILA profile.


• You can edit your proposal until the submission deadline, 11 March 2018. Log in with your ILA credentials, click on "Submit or Edit a Proposal" on the Submitter Menu, then click on the "edit" link next to the title of your proposal. In order to save all changes, click on the "Accept and Continue" button at the bottom of each page until you reach the confirmation page. If you exit the proposal before reaching the confirmation page, your edits will not be saved.


• To Serial Comma or Not? Please follow the ILA Style Guide (pdf) when writing your program book title and description. This short two-page document covers the most common style issues such as serial commas, capitalization, and more. If it's not covered in the style guide, we prefer APA for references and citations with some AP style thrown in for readability.