Francis J. Yammarino is SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Management and Director Emeritus of the Bernard M. & Ruth R. Bass Center for Leadership Studies at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He was senior editor of The Leadership Quarterly and co-editor of Research in Multi-Level Issues, has served on ten scholarly journal editorial review boards, and is a Fellow of four professional societies. His research on leadership and levels of analysis has been funded by the Army Research Institute, Office of Naval Research, NSF, and NASA, among others.

Leadership: WTF (What’s the Future)!
Saturday, October 31, 2026, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

When Bernard Bass founded the Center for Leadership Studies (now the Bernard M. and Ruth R. Bass Center for Leadership Studies) at Binghamton University in 1987, leadership research was a small field with one journal and a handful of committed scholars. Nearly forty years on, the Bass Center’s faculty have shaped much of what the field publishes, serving as editors, associate editors, and editorial board members at The Leadership Quarterly and other leading outlets. Its current research spans collective leadership for the U.S. Army, complexity science approaches to team innovation, and leadership models for long-duration space missions such as to Mars. This featured panel brings together ILA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Francis J. Yammarino, Director Emeritus of the Bass Center, with colleagues who have led it since. Together they trace leadership scholarship: its origins, current issues and what’s next, including how AI, network science and technology may reshape the questions worth asking.  

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