Published Work

• Sessa, V.I. (2017). College Student Leadership Development: Learning from Experience. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis.

Chapters

• Chapter: Sessa, V.I., Rosch, D.M. & Linzenberg, L. (2023). Leadership in teams and other collectives. In S.R. Komives & J.E. Owen (Eds). A Research Agenda for Leadership Learning and Development through Higher Education. Edward Elgar Publishing, LTD. 

• Alonso, N., Bragger, J., D’Ambrosio, Morgan, J., Sessa, V. (2019). Developing Leaders to Serve and Servants to Lead.  Proceedings of the 79th Meeting of Academy of Management.

Presentations

• Williams, C., Stavely, S., Skovera, I. , Shelley, L., Sessa, V., & Bragger, J. (2023, October). Leader Development Programs in College: Are They Worth It?. [Paper Presentation] International Leadership Association (ILA), Vancouver, Canada.

• Offermann, L., Breaux, J., Shelley, L., Skovera, I., Sessa, V., & Bixter, M. (2023, October). Exploring the Moderating Effect of Team Heterogeneity on the Relationship Between Leadership Structure and Team Outcome Performance. [Paper Presentation] International Leadership Association (ILA), Vancouver, Canada.

• Breaux, J., Offermann, L., Skovera, I., Shelley, L., Sessa, V., & Bixter, M. (2023, October). Personality Composition as a Predictor of Team Performance and Emergent Leadership Structure. [Paper Presentation] International Leadership Association (ILA), Vancouver, Canada.

• Breaux, J., Offermann, L., Skovera, I., Shelley, L., Sessa, V., & Bixter, M. (2023, July). Personality Composition as a Predictor of Team Performance and Emergent Leadership Structure. [Paper Presentation] Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGroup), Bellevue, WA.

• Offermann, L., Breaux, J., Shelley, L., Skovera, I., Sessa, V., & Bixter, M. (2023, July). Exploring the Moderating Effect of Team Heterogeneity on the Relationship Between Leadership Structure and Team Outcome Performance. [Paper Presentation] Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGroup), Bellevue, WA.

• Shelley, L., Skovera, I., Breaux, J., Offermann, L., Sessa, V., & Bixter, M. (2023, April). Diversity and Team Enacted Leadership Structure: Mediators and Moderators. [Poster Presentation] Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Boston, MA.

• Notari, C. & Sessa, V. (2022, October 13-16). I’m the Leader! How shared leadership leads to territoriality [Conference presentation]. ILA 2022 Conference, Washington, D.C..

• Notari, C. & Sessa, V. (2022, July 21-24). I’m the Leader! How shared leadership leads to territoriality [Conference presentation]. INGRoup 2022 Conference, Hamburg, Germany.

• Notari, C. (2022, June 8). I’m the Leader! How shared leadership leads to territoriality [Conference presentation]. EAM-I 2022 Conference, Lyon, France.

• Notari, C. M., Sessa, V. I., Bragger, J., Yang, L., & Sobel, D. (2021, October 21). Leadership Principles Inventory: Developing an Instrument for Evaluating College Students’ Beliefs about the Nature of Leadership [Paper presentation]. ILA 2021, Geneva, Switzerland.

• Sobel, D. & Sessa, V.I. (2020). Shared leadership approaches in teams: How understanding leadership impacts the presence of shared leadership. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Leadership Association, online.

• Toich, M.J., Sessa, V.I., & Bragger, J.D., Patel, N. (Oct 2019). You can go your own way: Examining the pathways of college student leaders. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Leadership Association, Ottowa, Canada.

• Toich, M.J., Sessa, V.I., & Bragger, J.D., Patel, N. (Aug 2019). You can go your own way: Examining the pathways of college student leaders. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Academy of Management.

• Alonso, N., Sessa, V.I. & Bragger, J.D. (Oct 2018). Leadership or participation: How do college students get involved and what are the outcomes? Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Leadership Association, West Palm Beach, Fl.

• Knudsen, Q.E., Sessa, V.I., Bragger, J.D., & Toich, M.J. (Oct 2018). Readiness to enact leadership in college students: The development of a construct. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Leadership Association, West Palm Beach, Fl.

• Knudsen, Q., Toich, M. Sessa, V., & Bragger, J. (2018, July). Leadership developmental readiness: furthering our understanding of this multi-dimensional construct. Paper presented at the Association of Leadership Educators Conference, Chicago, Illinois.

• Sessa, V.I., Bragger, D., Alonso, N. & Knudsen, Q. (Oct. 2017). Exploring leader possible selves: Antecedents and consequences. Presented at the Annual conference of the International Leadership Association, Brussels, Belgium.

• Alonso, N., Sessa, V., & Bragger, J. (2017, July). Who participates? Who leads? What are the outcomes? Presented at the 27th annual conference of the Association of Leadership Educators Conference, Charleston, SC.

• Sessa, V.I., Bragger, J.D. (2016). Messages Our Schools and Leadership Programs are Sending about Inclusive Leadership. Symposium at the 18th Annual ILA Global Conference, Atlanta, GA.

• Sessa, V.I., Bragger, J.D., Alonso, N., Sharshidar, A., Schettino, G. (July, 2016). How students learn and develop leadership: A framework and preliminary data. Association of Leadership Educators annual conference, Sacremento, CA.

• Sessa, V.I., Ploskonka, J., Dixon, C., Alvarez, A. & Dourdis, S. (2014, Oct). The relationship between student leaders’ constructive development stage, their understanding of leadership, and their leader identity stage. Presented at the 16th annual conference of the International Leadership Association, San Diego, CA.

• Sessa, V.I., Morgan, B.V., Kalenderli, S., Hammond, F. (2013, Aug). Key Events in Student Leaders Lives and Lessons Learned from Them. Paper presented as part of N.S. Hartman's symposium, "Leader Development for Undergraduates: Do We Have a Direction?" Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Orlando, FL.

• Sessa, V.I., Morgan, B.V., Hammond, F.E., & Kalenderli, S. (2012, October). Key Events in Student Leaders’ Lives and Lessons Learned from Them. Presented at the 14th annual conference of the International Leadership Association, Denver, CO.

• Sessa, V.I. & Matos, C. (2007). Leadership qualities and service learning. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA.