Leadership Course

This course is a leadership laboratory, where the instructors work with the participants to create direct access to the ways of being, thinking, planning, and action required to be a leader and to exercise leadership effectively – in any situation, and no matter what the circumstances. 

This leadership course is designed to provide you with the tools needed to achieve significant breakthroughs in your professional and personal life.  The course focuses on what it takes to actually be a leader and what it takes to exercise leadership effectively as your natural self-expression.

This course is based on a new model of leadership

The content of, and the learning/teaching method employed in this course, are based on a new ontological model of leader and leadership.  Rather than studying and trying to emulate the characteristics, styles, and actions of noteworthy leaders, or to merely impart knowledge about leadership, this new model of leadership has been specifically designed to provide you with direct access to being a leader and to the effective exercise of leadership as your natural self-expression.  An epistemological mastery of a subject leaves you knowing.  An ontological mastery of a subject leaves you being.

This new model of leadership and its practice is applicable for all domains of leadership, including personal leadership (being an effective leader of yourself and your own life), and team and organizational leadership in business, in school, and in any other areas of life in which you are committed to making a difference (e.g. family, community, and politics). 

The promise of the course

You will leave this course being who you need to be to be a leader.  You will leave this course with what it takes to exercise leadership effectively.

While you will not necessarily have all of the experience and knowledge you need to be a truly extraordinary leader, you will have experienced whatever personal transformation is required for you to be an effective leader – in any environment and no matter with what conditions you are confronted.  Even when you personally lack certain experience or knowledge, you will know what to do to be an effective leader.

The course is based on the instructors’ work over the last six years in developing a course of the same title at the University of Rochester, Simon School of Business.  Since 2008, the course has been taught at the United States Air Force Academy; a version of the course is also taught at the Erasmus University Law School; and the full course was recently delivered in 2009 at the Erasmus Academie in Rotterdam.  In addition, a training in being able to deliver this course for clients was provided for more than 60 international consulting firms in August of 2008.

Who should attend this course

University faculty and administrative personnel, government leaders and personnel, business executives, not-for-profit leaders, students and alumni.

Location

Mays Business School, Wehner Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Cost

$2,000 (no cost for Mays students and faculty). Includes daily lunch and refreshments.

Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hyatt Place in College Station.

1100 University Drive East
College Station, TX 77840
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To make hotel reservations, call (888) 492-8847 and reference group code JENS. If you have any problems, you can also call the hotel sales staff directly at (979) 595-9904.

What prior participants of this course have said

• "… the greatest contribution of the course to me lives in the results that have come since taking it and in its continued lasting effect. Since taking the course I have been delighted to find myself able to 'be' a magnet for new thinking, new solutions and unique strategies. Not only that, but I am now also able to assist others in taking a leap in their own exercise of leadership." (Catherine A. Parrish,participant in Simon School of Business ’08 Leadership Course)
• "For me, this course has created new opportunities in leadership and brought me to a level of understanding I never would have imagined possible."  (Justin Borgerding, participant in United States Air Force Academy ’08 Leadership Course)
• "I have become fearless of leading because I know I have the abilities and resources to do so and I view myself as a leader, which is a tremendous change from a few months ago."  (Erin Wallace, participant in United States Air Force Academy ’08 Leadership Course)
• "After years of considering myself a very good leader and having lots of evidence that this is the case, I have discovered...that I have, in fact, been full of it about being a leader and have, in some really critical ways, failed to provide real leadership to my organization... The course pierced through my arrogance and has shaken me up and dropped me out into an entire new world of leadership.  I am very, very grateful." (Sanford Robbins, Chairperson, University of Delaware Department of Theatre, participant in August ’08 Leadership Course for Business Consulting Firms)
• "My understanding of what is required of leaders, what leadership actually is, and the commitment required by leaders to actually lead has undergone a metamorphosis. I have removed large amounts of obstructions from my understanding of where I am as a leader, my leadership potential, and what is required of me to lead, not manage, individuals. It is not too much to say that I have a completely different view of my leadership, my realm of possibilities has been enormously expanded, and my confidence in myself to lead individuals in unfathomable circumstances has been restored." (John Dolan, participant in United States Air Force Academy ’09 Leadership Course)
• "[With] this class many great leaders today could be even greater than they are currently.  It would be amazing if leaders of nations came together to take this course." (Ashley Nicole Alexander, participant in United States Air Force Academy ’08 Leadership Course)
• "Having graduated from the Simon School nearly 20 years ago… The course gave me a whole new perspective [and] a new set of tools on how to approach 'people' issues that leaders commonly face.  It forced us to confront our own failings, weaknesses, and how to effectively address them on our own." (Mukul Kasliwal, Chairman MW Corp Limited Mumbai, India, participant in Simon School of Business ’08 Leadership Course)
• "I wouldn't say I have grown as a leader in this course… I have BECOME a leader from this course." (Josh Matthews, participant in United States Air Force Academy ’09 Leadership Course)
• "This was one of the most influential and powerful classes I have ever taken. Each student in this class is truly unbelievable and I learned a lot from them through being coached, coaching, and just sitting and letting the conversation take me to a new realm of possibility." (Caitlin Lynch, participant in United States Air Force Academy ’09 Leadership Course)
• "I have learned that the rational model has not become obsolete, but that it has deepened and strengthened. The new leadership approach is strongly related to integrity and performance. It is certainly rational to enhance those. But there is more that...you can only experience by being in the seminar. If you participate in the seminar, I promise that you will create new and exciting possibilities in your work and personal life." (Professor Richard V. De Mulder LLM, MBA, Faculty of Law, Erasmus University, Participant in Erasmus Academie ’09 Leadership Course)