Wendy M. Edmonds, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Bowie State University, is Chair of the Followership Learning Community at the International Leadership Association – the largest followership research and practitioner group in the world, and the author of, inTOXICating FOLLOWERSHIP and co-editor of When Leadership Fails: Individual, Group, and Organizational Lessons from the Worst Workplace Experiences, released in 2021. She is also the recipient of The Chair Academy Idahlynn Karre Exemplary Leadership Award 2018 and the 2020 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Emerging Scholar Award. Recognized internationally as a scholar-practitioner in followership, an emerging field of study in organizational leadership, Dr. Edmonds is the first researcher to conduct focus group studies with survivors of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre that occurred in Guyana, which fueled her interest in “toxic followership.” Dr. Edmonds’ most recent work focused on the lived experiences of victims of domestic violence in relation to followership and the impact of spirituality.