In the first issue of this journal in 1993 Joseph Rost declared that leadership development programs offered in the past require new concepts of leadership and new educational methods to develop leaders and collaborators for the 21 st century. This article presents: 1) a rationale for collaborative, shared leadership that fosters community renewal 2) an introduction to situated and action-leaming concepts to guide leadership develop program design 3) an analysis of three leadership development programs that sought to build renewed community or organizational leadership and 4) a discussion of implications for future leadership education.
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