Innovators Leadership Academy

The Innovators Leadership Academy (ILA) equips emerging leaders to inspire and guide engineering, science, and technology-focused teams and organizations to greater levels of innovation, collaboration, and discovery. Successful leaders in these fields create value where science and technology intersect with human and organizational behavior. They do this by learning and mastering evidence-based, practice-proven frameworks and tools to signal executive presence, lead high-performing teams, and design and transform organizations and ecosystems. The ILA program was developed by a team of Purdue University faculty led by Scott Hutcheson, PhD. Purdue is known as the Cradle of Astronauts, with more of its graduates going to space than any other university. These alums include Neal Armstrong and Gene Cernan, the first and last humans to walk on the moon. Purdue’s contributions to supporting space exploration continues today with much of the ILA content piloted at the space agency. Some of these experiences are detailed in the best-selling book, "Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership" (Wiley) co-authored by Hutcheson.