Dr. Wendy Edmonds is the Interim Chair of the Management, Marketing, and Public Administration Department in the College of Business at Bowie State University, the oldest Historically Black College and University in Maryland. 

She served as Chair of the Followership Learning Community at the International Leadership Association – the largest followership research and practitioner group in the world from 2019-2021. As the first researcher to conduct focus group studies with survivors of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre that occurred in Guyana, she shares how it was a life-changing event which fueled her interest in “toxic followership”and the various perspectives of leader-follower relationships.

Recognized internationally as a scholar-practitioner in followership, an emerging field of study in organizational leadership, Dr. Edmonds' most recent work focuses on the lived experiences of victims of domestic violence and the impact of spirituality. She is also the author of inTOXICating FOLLOWERSHIP, and co-author of When Leadership Fails: Individual, Group and Organizational Lessons from the Worst Workplace Experiences.