LEAD

23. Juli 2025, von PPPE

LEAD – Understanding Developmental Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences of Leadership in Adolescence

Leadership skills are critical to success in many areas of life. While most studies on leadership focus on adults, we know little about how and when these skills emerge and develop—even before entering the workforce as an adult. First studies show that important leadership components are already visible in a wide variety of social contexts in childhood and adolescence—such as team captains in sports teams, school groups working together on projects or friends organizing initiatives against climate change.
From a developmental psychology perspective, adolescence is a key phase for the development of traits and skills related to leadership. The LEAD project aims to gain a better understanding of how leadership manifests in adolescents' social interactions, what individual and contextual factors predict them, and what impact they have on adolescents' lives.

LEAD is a cooperative project of the University of Hamburg (PI: Dr. Bleckmann) and Northwestern University in Chicago (PI: Prof. Dr. Tackett) and is supported by a Joint Seed Funding Grant from University of Hamburg and Northwestern University.