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“Leadership for Change inspired me to push harder for the things I believe in. As a leader, I can show compassion and wisdom, and exhibit strength and drive at the same time.” |
Learning can be viewed as responding to the individual’s needs and preferences and being delivered to one’s work, to one’s thinking, and to one’s feelings. – J. Raelin
Each spring Leadership for Change recruits a learning community of participants who integrate responsible and accountable leadership skills into their workplace. Each cohort of twenty-five working professionals meets for eleven monthly learning modules, workshops, and team meetings starting in September.
Participants of Leadership for Change represent several levels of management and different sectors of business and society that include race, ethnicity, culture, age and gender. Such diversity and collaboration of experiences and skills create a microcosm of society and a strong learning community.
Participants enhance their personal skills, gain diverse perspectives and experience collaborative leadership for the common good. They learn through each other as well as from faculty members who facilitate discussions, assignments, and activities that illustrate collaborative and responsible leadership practices.
Leadership for Change engages accomplished faculty from the Boston College Carroll School of Management and the Department of Sociology; Harvard Graduate School of Education and The Work and Learning Center at Northeastern University with business practitioners from the greater Boston area. All are engaged with the participants as members of the learning community.
As a result, learning occurs from the individual, group, organizational, and societal perspectives. The Leadership for Change learning community models inclusion, empowerment and collaboration and encourages innovative solutions. These applied solutions or work-based projects empower individual learning and benefit both the organization and its stakeholders.
With this partnership between business, education, and participants, each cohort develops a distinctly different experience based on research, innovative practices, participant feedback and external factors such as corporate governance, political shifts and environmental issues.
