Likewise, knowledge about the effectiveness of the respondents as leaders would go a
long way toward increasing the validity of the relational findings. An implicit assumption in this
study was that learning precedes leadership. A more complex investigation, and conceptual
model, would examine how leadership, as an experience itself, affects people’s subsequent
learning inclinations. Insights from transformational learning theories also offer alternative
approaches to understanding the development of transformational leadership development.
Finally, greater concurrent validation would result from investigating these same relationships
using different instruments of the same constructs. Questions about the generalizability of the
sample for this study could be addressed by replicating the study across different (more
heterogeneous) sample populations.