TY - JOUR AB - Purpose Harvard authority on leadership, Barbara Kellerman, indicts the deficiencies of the leadership industry and she argues that we can do better.Design/methodology/approach This interview offers a bold prescription for training effective leaders[4].Findings To be effective, the leadership development process must adopt and achieve three goals: educate leaders, train leaders and develop leaders.Practical implications Bad leadership puts on vivid display the unbreakable link between leaders and followers – a link that the leadership industry willfully ignores precisely because there’s no money in it.Social implications There is precious little evidence that the leadership industry has in any meaningful, measurable way benefited society.Originality/value A “no holds barred” look at the leadership training industry and some potent suggestions on how to improve it. VL - 46 IS - 6 SN - 1087-8572 DO - 10.1108/SL-09-2018-0083 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/SL-09-2018-0083 AU - Allio Robert J. PY - 2018 Y1 - 2018/01/01 TI - Barbara Kellerman: There’s a better way to train leaders T2 - Strategy & Leadership PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 22 EP - 27 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -