"A joint publication of the Jossey-Bass business & management series and the Center for Creative Leadership"--P. [v].

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Pt. 1. Designing leadership development evaluation -- 1. Experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations / S. Bartholomew Craig and Kelly M. Hannum -- 2. Leading with theory : using a theory of change approach for leadership development evaluations / Manuel Gutierrez and Tania Tasse -- 3. EvaluLEAD : an open-systems perspective on evaluating leadership development / John T. Grove, Barry M. Kibel and Taylor Haas -- 4. Making evaluation work for the greater good : supporting provocative possibility and responsive praxis in leadership development / Hazel Symonette -- 5. Measuring return on investment in leadership development / Jack J. Phillips and Patti Phillips -- Pt. 2. Leadership development evaluation in context -- 6. Building leadership development, social justice, and social change in evaluation through a pipeline program / Prisca M. Collins and Rodney K. Hopson -- 7. From the inside out : evaluating personal transformation leadership efforts / Sally Leiderman -- 8. Evaluating leadership development and organizational performance / Nancy Vollmer LeMay and Alison Ellis -- 9. The importance of local context in leadership development and evaluation / Larry Peters and John Baum -- 10. Evaluating community leadership programs / Teresa R. Behrens and Maenette K. P. Benham -- 11. Evaluating leadership as a strategy to transform complex systems / Kimberly Jinnett and Todd Kern -- 12. Evaluating leadership development for social change / Kim Ammann Howard and Claire Reinelt -- 13. Evaluating youth leadership development through civic activism / Hanh Cao Yu, Heather K. Lewis-Charp and Michelle Alberti Gambone -- 14. Evaluating leadership efforts for neighborhood transformation / Nilofer Ahsan -- Pt. 3. Increasing impact through evaluation use -- 15. Strategic uses of evaluation / E. Jane Davidson and Jennifer W. Martineau -- 16. Evaluation for planning and improving leadership development programs : a framework based on the Baldrige education criteria for performance excellence / Karl E. Umble -- 17. Communication in evaluation : a systems approach / Darlene F. Russ-Eft -- 18. Accelerating learning about leadership development : a learning community approach / Deborah Meehan and Claire Reinelt -- 19. Continuous learning / Rosalie T. Torres -- Afterword : future directions for leadership development evaluation / Kelly M. Hannum, Jennifer W. Martineau and Claire Reinelt.