Chapter 9: Checkmate or Chance: Games as a Strategy for Leader Development

This chapter explores utilizing games for leader development, delving into multifaceted applications of game-based learning, and supporting evidence addressing cognitive development motivation, and group interaction. This strategy can be navigated through various lenses, such as approaching games as concrete objects, social-emotional experiences, and/or tools for making meaning. Leader development topics range from direct content delivery to facilitating emotional awareness, behavioral practice, social processes, and identity development.