Description:
Women Leaders in Central and Eastern Europe: Organizing, Politics, and the Path to Change is a groundbreaking edited volume that redefines leadership through the lens of women's experiences across a historically and culturally unique region.
Review Quotes:
"This book arrives at exactly the right moment. What it names, I know from the inside: as originator and director of the first women's leadership academy in Europe, and practitioner working at the intersection of executive development, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience for three decades.
Górska, Kostera and their contributors take seriously a form of leadership the mainstream canon consistently overlooks: relational, meaning-driven, rooted in authenticity and resilience rather than dominance or the performance of certainty. Moving beyond heroic individualism, they reframe leadership as a practice of meaning-making shaped by relationships, institutions, history, and everyday constraint. Central and Eastern Europe emerges not as a peripheral case study, but as an epistemically generative place - with its own answers to what organizing, agency, and resilience can mean.
The portraits resist both idealization and victimhood. They hold contradiction. They show leadership as it actually unfolds: negotiated, costly, and deeply human. Essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and anyone who leads in conditions that textbooks rarely acknowledge." Dr Anna Kieszkowska-Grudny, CEO Minds of Hope Instytut BezStresu; originator and director, LiderShe Women's Leadership Academy & advanced executive program - Academy for the Leaders of the Future, Kozminski University; Editor, co-author Formula Wygrywania [The Winning Formula, The Leadership book]