The Long and Winding Road to Self-Leadership: Ethnographic Insights Into Effective Training Transfer

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Ryan Sanders explores the factors that impact effective training, with a particular focus on how knowledge is transferred from trainer to trainee and how well that information is retained. His work centers on the individual dynamics of leadership development through training, examining what it means to be in a leader’s “shadow” and how that experience shapes overall leadership growth. Ryan also investigates which trainees successfully absorb the training and which do not, using these insights to inform how training approaches can be adapted to better support those who struggle to learn.