**Randal Joy Thompson**

Randal Joy Thompson, Ph.D., MBA, MA, is a Fellow at the Institute for Social Innovation, Fielding Graduate University. She is also an international development professional and former US Commissioned Foreign Service Officer. She is currently the co-editor of the book series Transformative Women Leaders, published by Emerald. Her books include Embodied Somatic Leadership for Peacebuilding and Protest: Women's Counteroffensive to Violence and Injustice, co-edited with Lazarina Topuzova (2024, forthcoming); Reimagining Leadership on the Commons: Shifting the Paradigm for a more Ethical, Equitable, and Just World, co-edited with Devin Singh and Kathleen Curran (2021); Proleptic Leadership on the Commons: Ushering in a New Global Order (2020); and Leadership and Power in International Development: Navigating the Intersections of Gender, Culture, Context, and Sustainability, co-edited with Julia Storberg-Walker (2018), which won the Human Resource Development R. Wayne Pace HRD Book of the Year Award. Her book chapters cover female leaders in Afghanistan, post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, Myanmar, and Morocco. She conceived a theory of leadership in international development based on women's way of knowing and recently published two articles on violence against women and LGBTQI+ individuals in El Salvador. She holds a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Behavior from Fielding Graduate University, an MA in Philosophy and an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MA in Biblical Exposition from Capitol Seminary and Graduate School, and a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. She was President of the International Leadership Association's Women and Leadership Community in 2021.
