This book is addressed to aspiring and senior student affairs officers and offers a new "ecological" framework that recognizes that today's leaders are affected by factors they may not control, and work within an environment they cannot expect to mold solely through their execution of skills and strategies.

Offers readers a new lens for viewing leadership, one that examines how positional leaders interact with their environments to engage in leadership "in context”. The book is addressed to aspiring and senior student affairs officers and offers a new "ecological” framework that recognises that today's leaders are affected by factors they may not control.