Introduction

“We are going to construct a more inclusive society. We are trying to build a country in which no one is left out.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt

In 1942, in the middle of World War II, President Roosevelt was fully aware of the sacrifices the American people were making fighting the war in Europe and in the Pacific, and he needed them to understand why. At that moment, he appealed to inclusiveness as one of the pillars of the new society they were fighting for.

While inclusive leadership is thought by some to be a theoretical concept developed by people with little contact with the “real world,” evidence shows that even the most practical people (and perhaps especially the most practical people) develop very creative and concrete ways to make inclusive leadership a reality.