With the help of innovations leadership promises to lead through change and complexity and therefore to meet the opportunities and challenges of the present and future world. At the same time, leadership may also be subject to the influences of a digital and networked world. Based on a sound theoretical foundation, a real-time Delphi-based scenario study with more than 100 experts worldwide was conducted to further assess how future leadership in a digital and networked world could look like and what could follow from this for a leadership education curriculum. On the ground of the large amount of generated quantitative and qualitative data four different scenarios, as well as probable and desirable futures were developed. Within the scenario transfer possible development potentials for a future leadership education curriculum were derived. The study gives a condensed overview of the essential interrelationships of leadership, innovation, networks, multi-level learning, and education. It provides impulses for the possible future development of leadership and leadership education in a digital and networked world. As such, it offers a cross-disciplinary perspective in which pedagogical intentions and approaches are integrated.

Ineke Blumenthal was born in Bremen, Germany, in 1984. After her high school graduation in Rostock she studied International Cultural and Business Studies with focus on the Frenchspeaking world at the University of Passau with one station at the Aix-Marseille University, France. Among numerous internships in Germany and France, she was working as a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service at the State of Bavaria Montréal Office, Canada. She wrote her thesis on the outcome and causes of the Quebec general elections 2007. Since 2009 she is working for the School of International Business and Entrepreneurship (SIBE). At the same time, she completed the work-integrated Master of Science in International Management at Steinbeis University Berlin. After various projects and stations within SIBE, she is since 2015 responsible for the development and further development of existing and new master's programs. Since 2021 she is also involved in the business development in the area of scientific and innovation projects. Ineke Blumenthal earned her doctoral degree at the Department of Educational Sciences at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany. Her research was part of a joint research project of the Department of Educational Sciences at LMU Munich and SIBE. Her publications include articles in the field of leadership, leadership education and talent management.