I spent two weekends in June helping with a couple of leadership retreat type conferences for high school students. I was the closing speaker for both the HOBY (Hugh O’Brien Youth Program) conference in Madison, Wisconsin as well as WILS, the Wisconsin Leadership Seminar, which is held in Milwaukee. I made it through the Wisconsin

I am excited for the 2008 National Leadership Symposium! The theme is “Authenticity as a Spiritual Framework for Educating a New Generation of Leaders” July 10-13, 2008 University of Richmond Richmond, VAHere is the information about the Symposium and how to register while there are still spots available: To register, please visit www.naca.org You do

Valerie Johnson, a graduate student interested in leadership programs synthesized the results of an online brainstorm about leadership program innovation and wrote the following article. This brainstorm is ongoing and you can still add ideas and vote! Thanks for the article Valerie! A recent brainstorm on brainreactions.net gathered ideas about providing quality and innovative leadership

In my consulting work, we hear from many organizations that they desire a positive culture of innovation within their organizations that relies on the collaboration, contribution, and shared leadership of all employees. At BrainReactions, we have created a program to achieve positive outcomes in this area. During the final three years I worked on my

There is an online brainstorm live that anyone can contribute to. The purpose is to innovate leadership programs. Please visit www.brainreactions.net/brainstorms/1917 to contribute your ideas for what the high quality leadership program of the future could be like or feature. So far there are over 30 ideas on the brainstorm from 6 different individuals. This

This monograph illustrates how to create a new leadership course or enhance an existing one through improved teaching, learning, and course content. Particular emphasis is given to foundational level courses that educate students about leadership and develop their personal leadership skills. Key sections include establishing a course for credit, text books, companion books, projects, activities,

I’m trying to identify some publications that would be key resources for those leadership program practitioners in colleges and universities.  I was anticipating this book and read it during my day of traveling yesterday.  I found it to be an excellent resource and it would benefit many leadership educators and program coordinators.  There was a chapter

This publication will be of benefit to those who are developing or enhancing a leadership retreat, conference, institute, or workshop. The purpose is to help you construct and facilitate a quality experience and to maintain fidelity to the outcomes inherent in a leadership development retreat by creating a space for leadership learning as well as