Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework

Research exploring the powerful links between leadership and identity has burgeoned in recent years but cohered around two distinct approaches. on leadership, main focus of this special issue, sees as a group process that centers leaders’ ability to represent, advance, create embed social they share with collectives lead—a sense “us group”. leader is advanced by individuals who have well-developed personal understanding themselves leaders—a “me leader”. This article explores nature implications these divergent approaches, focusing their specification profiles, processes, pathways, products, philosophies for theory practice. We formalize our observations series propositions also outline dual-identity framework potential integrate