ABSTRACT
The Women’s Leadership Series (WLS) fostered leadership growth and improved effectiveness by cultivating participant capacity to attend to the dual contingencies in their formulation of leadership behaviors. An aspect of the empirical findings concerning the four transformations of the WLS is incorporated into and grounds the dual contingency framework. The contribution of the empirical findings is specifically related to the transformations facilitated by the WLS. The care perspective helped explain the kinds of activities that the WLS participants described and to which they attributed their feeling of safety in the WLS. The WLS program focused on individual-level change, effecting growth in Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research women to enable them to better navigate the many challenges they encountered within their jobs and to better exercise leadership. The Gender & Diversity program where the WLS is housed had other programs and activities that were specifically focused on organizational change.
