1. Authentic Leadership
JEREMIAH RIVERA
HTM 491

2. Overview
 Defining Authentic Leadership
 Authentic Leadership Action Wheel
 Authentic Leader’s Characteristics
 Authentic Leadership Components
 Application to the Real World

3. Defining Authentic Leadership
 Authentic Leadership – focuses on whether
leadership is genuine
 ―A process that draws from both positive
psychological capacities and a highly developed
organizational context, which results in both greater
self-awareness and self-regulated positive behaviors
on the part of leaders and associates, fostering
positive self-development.‖
 - Bruce Avolio, Fred Walumbwa, Todd J. Weber
University of Nebraska - Lincoln

4. Authentic Leadership Action Wheel
 Developed by Dr. Robert Terry
 He believed that all human action is structured the same—in
every act, in every situation.
 All aspects of the model are implicitly present
in every act.
 The six features of action are:
 Meaning
 Mission
 Power
 Structure
 Resources
 Existence
 Fulfillment: The promise of Authentic Leadership
 Fulfillment is the completed action that embraces
existence, resources, structure, power, mission and meaning.

5. Authentic Leadership Action Wheel
 Action-centered model
 Leaders should strive to do what is right
 Two core leadership questions:
 What is really, really going on?
 What are we going to do about it?
 Developed Authentic Action Wheel to help leaders
frame problems
 Locate the problem on the diagnostic wheel
 Strategically select an appropriate response to the problem

6. Authentic Leader’s Characteristics
 Bill George
 Leader characteristic model
 Leaders have genuine desire to serve
others
 Five characteristics of Authentic
Leaders
 Understand their purpose
 Strong values
 Trusting relationships
 Self-discipline
 Act from the heart (mission)

7. Authentic Leadership Components
 FOUR COMPONENTS:
 Self-awareness
 Reflecting on one’s core values, identity, emotions, motives
 Being aware of and trusting your own feelings
 Internalized moral perspective
 Self-regulatory process using internal moral standards to guide
behavior
 Balanced processing
 Ability to analyze informational objectively and explore other
people’s opinions before making a decision
 Relational transparency
 Being open and honest in presenting one’s true self to others

8. Application to Real World
 People have the capacity to become authentic leaders. It
is a lifelong learning process.
 Human Resource departments may be able to foster
authentic leadership behaviors in employees who move
into leadership positions.
 Leaders are always trying to do the ―right‖ thing, to be
honest with themselves and others, and to work for the
common good.
 Leaders are shaped by critical life events that lead to
growth and greater authenticity.
 Fulfills society’s expressed need for trustworthy
leadership.