The future is collaborative. We need everyone to both lead and follow well. 

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The Global Followership Network is the global hub for people who believe that followership is as essential as leadership.

For too long, leadership has dominated the conversation – limiting research and leaving enormous human and team potential untapped. This leadership-only focus has come at a cost: disengagement, disempowerment, inequity, burnout, and accountability gaps. Followership is the missing half of the story.

We are here to rebalance the conversation. 

With a pracademic, inclusive, and globally informed approach, we foster a community that challenges leader-centric thinking and promotes healthier, more collaborative, and more effective workplaces and societies.

What we do:

  • Build an inclusive global community to strengthen the partnership between leading and following

  • Advance research and create new knowledge

  • Share practical tools, case studies, and skill-building resources

  • Advocate for healthier, more collaborative organizational cultures

  • Host conferences, programs, and experiences that spark insight and elevate practice

We welcome everyone — from the followership-curious to seasoned experts.

Followership + Leadership. Stronger together.

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Upcoming Conferences

  • Pedestrian walkway on Queensland University of Technology's Gardens Point Campus, lined with trees, benches, and campus signs, with students walking in the distance

    April 1-2, 2026

    Queensland University of Technology, Graduate School of Business, Brisbane, Australia, Co-Chairs Alain de Sales and Otto Henfling

  • A neatly manicured lawn with a winding sidewalk, trees, and lampposts on either side, on a sunny day at a university campus with banners and parked cars in the background.

    July 7-9, 2026

    Indiana Wesleyan University, Center for the Advancement of Followership, Co-Chairs Mark Rennaker and Mike Linville

  • A digital graphic of concentric circles divided in half, with the left half in shades of blue and the right half in shades of brown.

    November 2026 - Virtual

    Details coming soon, Co-Chairs Maike Kugler and Abby Haney