Society for Attachment-Informed Leadership (SAIL)
Co-founded in 2026 by social neuroscientist Dr Pascal Vrticka (University of Essex) and leadership specialist Jonathan Wolf-Phillips (New Leadership Ltd), the Society for Attachment-Informed Leadership (SAIL) exists to support the development of Attachment-Informed Leadership (AIL) as a field.
Purpose of SAIL
What does SAIL do?
- Convene – Brings together, around the AIL framework, the people with a stake in it: the scientists who study attachment, the practitioners who work on attachment-informed lines, the leaders they serve, and those who host, fund and teach leadership.
- Host – Runs the events at which those people meet – talks, gatherings, and in due course an annual meeting – where the science is presented plainly, the practice is discussed openly, and the field’s next questions are heard.
Example membership types (initially founder members by invitation)
- Academic (e.g., the psychologists and neuroscientists who study attachment; the economists, sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists who study leadership at scale; and the historians and theologians who study how leadership has been understood across history and tradition).
- Practitioner (e.g., leadership development specialists, leadership coaches and coach supervisors, and clinicians who work with attachment).
- Leader (e.g., of a team, function, organisation, institution or state).
- Organisational (e.g., companies, public bodies, charities, schools and universities, faith organisations – organisations where leaders and practitioners work).
- Institutional (e.g., business schools, professional bodies, funders that host, teach or support the field).
- Student and early-career (e.g., doctoral students, trainee practitioners, early-career researchers).
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