The Institutional Leadership Paradigm Project: An Implementation Methodology

This article describes the Institutional Leadership Paradigm (ILP) as a critical reflection tool that emerged from a collaborative action research project involving five Australian and three North American universities. The article describes the process involved in developing the ILP and provides an analysis of what the ILP is, why this terminology was adopted, and how it was developed collaboratively through a series of Working Seminars, using keyword analysis. Finally, it reports on of the ILP in action, drawing on university participants’ action plans that have been developed to trial ILP in their respective institutes.