DEVELOPMENTAL NETWORKS AS HOLDING ENVIRONMENTS FOR GROWING LEADERS: AN ADULT DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE.

The article addresses the connections between adult learning and development, and leaders' growth in organizational settings. The potential of multiple mentoring relationships in promoting adult learning is explored. The link between adult development and leader development is used to establish how mentoring relationships can give access to different adult learning approaches that encourage leader development. Leaders who are in transition between the institutional and inter-individual stages of adult development are described as being in the process of realizing that their ideologies and beliefs are not complete or absolute.