Lynn Horan Publishes New Article on Servant-Leadership and Gendered Expectations

Promotional graphic for an academic article by Lynn M. Horan, PhD, published in the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion. The image features a professional headshot of Lynn Horan in a circular frame on a blue and teal background. The article title reads, “Exploiting Empathetic Women Leaders and the Shadow Side of Servant Leadership.” It notes that the article appears in a special issue titled “Spiritual Dimensions of Love in Leadership: Critical Perspectives, Shadow Aspects, and Integral Approaches.” An image of the journal cover appears in the lower left corner.

Lynn Horan ‘20 (GSLC, PhD) recently published the article “Exploiting Empathetic Women Leaders and the Shadow Side of Servant-Leadership” in the Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion’s Special Issue, “The Spiritual Dimensions of Love in Leadership: Critical Perspectives, Shadow Aspects, and Integral Approaches.” Her work highlights the need for more liberative and decolonizing ways of conceptualizing servant-leadership that resist harmful gendered expectations of the self-sacrificial woman within organizational and workplace culture.

Learn more about Horan’s research and publications on her website.