Practical Resources
Tools and Guides to Improve Your Network
My colleagues and I have developed an online personal network assessment and feedback tool called the Leader Network Diagnostic (LND). This tool can be used by educators, trainers, and learning and development professionals to help students and leaders at all levels improve their professional networks. Watch this video to learn more and visit our website
networkleader.com to take the LND yourself or to learn about how using the LND will benefit your organization.
Whitepapers and Books
Practical Guidance for Improving Leadership
Team Assembly in Modern Organizations: Network Origins of Emergent Teams
Pol Solanelles
Kristin Cullen-Lester
Motivating Your Managers: What's the Right Strategy?
Laura Graves
Kristin Cullen-Lester
Marian Ruderman
Bill Gentry
Houston Lester
A Leader's Network:
How to Help Your Talent Invest in the Right Relationships at the Right Time
Phil Willburn
Kristin Cullen
Absence of Support Makes the Heart Wander: Why People Want to Leave (or Stay with) their Organization
William Gentry
Kristin Cullen
jennifer Deal
Sarah Stawiski
Networks: How Collective Leadership Really Works
Kristin Cullen
Phil Willburn
Donna Chrobot-Mason
Chuck Palus
How Informal Networks Can Strengthen Your
Organization's Strategy
Kate Frear
Kristin Cullen-Lester
Dorothy Carter
Heather Braddy
Change Comes at a Cumulative Cost: Make it Worth the Investment!
Kristin Cullen-Lester
Bryan Edwards
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals:
A Story of Transformation
Kristin Cullen
Charles Palus
Donna Chrobot-Mason
The Irony of Integrity:
A Study of the Character Strengths of Leaders
William Gentry
Kristin Cullen
David Altman
Analytics for Change: How Networks and Data Science Will Revolutionize Organizational Change
Kristin Cullen-Lester
Phil Willburn
Leadership is in the eye of the beholder: How Images of Leadership Differ
William Gentry
Jennifer Deal
Marian Ruderman
Kristin Cullen
Anne Greenhalgh
Christopher Maxwell
Developing Network Perspective:
A Understanding the Basics of Social Networks and their Role in Leadership
Kristin Cullen
Charles Palus
Craig Appaneal
