JOE RAELIN is an internationally-recognized scholar in the fields of collective leadership, learning, and practice. Besides serving as the Asa S. Knowles Chair Emeritus at Northeastern University, he has held distinguished international visiting professorships in South Africa and the UK and is currently Visiting Professor of LUT University in Finland. He was formerly Professor of Management at Boston College and received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Joe is a prominent inventor of new practices in leadership and management studies, to wit, his development of a new paradigm of collective leadership via what he refers to as “leaderful practice,” on the emerging movement in leadership known as “leadership-as-practice,” as well as the field of work-based learning.
He is also a prolific writer with 11 books and over 200 articles as well as a management consultant with the firm, The Leaderful Consultancy.

His current book is: The Best of "Is it Leaderful?" It is a Kindle ebook available on Amazon.

Among his prior books on Amazon are:
Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone (Berrett-Koehler, 2003)

Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace (Jossey-Bass, 2008)

The Leaderful Fieldbook: Strategies and Activities for Developing Leadership in Everyone (Nicholas-Brealey, 2010)

Leadership-as-Practice: Theory and Application (Routledge, 2016)