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Introducing the 2009-2010 COLE Leadership Fellows
March 26, 2009
Together with the Daytime MBA program, The Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE), has developed the COLE Leadership Fellows program, a leadership and ethics curriculum concentration for Daytime MBA students that combines classroom learning with extracurricular experiences to develop team-oriented, ethical leaders of consequence. Now in its fifth year, COLE has selected thirty-seven rising second-year student leaders to be Leadership Fellows for the 2009-2010 academic year.
"The COLE Leadership Fellows Program engages a select group of second-year Daytime MBA students to support Fuqua and COLE's mission of developing leaders of consequence," said Sanyin Siang. "Incoming students undergo a leadership core experience (LEO) that provides them the foundation for Fuqua's leadership and team culture. The COLE fellows help to foster and reinforce that culture by serving as facilitators and coaches for the first-year student teams."
Specifically, fellows help to develop and communicate COLE's leadership message, provide programmatic support for COLE activities (inside and outside Fuqua), and help generate ideas and build the tools needed for students to develop their personal leadership. Their projects include working with COLE on developing a team feedback tool and a leadership roadmap tool for first-year students in terms 1 and 2, serving as coaches for the 360-degree feedback tool that all first-year students use, organizing community activities that provide hands-on leadership and teamwork training, and engaging in intensive personal development. For example, in 2006, two COLE fellows led the development of "At Bat for Habitat," in which Fuqua MBA students partnered with Habitat for Humanity of Durham to develop a leadership training program around the experience of building a house. Habitat has now become an embedded activity in the students' first-year team development experience during their initial academic term at Fuqua.
COLE Leadership Fellows undergo intensive training sessions on team facilitation and coaching and apply this learning in their work with incoming first-year students during the first two academic terms, but really serve as team and individual coaches and mentors throughout the academic year.
COLE Leadership Fellows are selected through a competitive application process that involved peer input based on leadership experience, diversity of leadership styles, character, vision, ideas, passion, and commitment. Applications were received from 20 percent of the second-year class. The 2009-2010 COLE Leadership Fellows are: Marla Abramson, Fielding Arnold, Maureen Atkins, Carol Barsa, Ray Bedeaux, Shomen Bhattacharya, Jason Charlesworth, Gavin Clikeman, Beth Corcoran, Amrita Dhingra, Joe Elliott, Andrea Friedman, Whitney Hewitt, Shaun Horrigan, Leandro Kaspary, Jim Kim, Kristin Klebanov, Chistopher Krummel, Rosa Kwak, Elizabeth Liedel, Callie Lytton, Adam Mangone, Vince Margida , Matt McLain, Alexandra Michalko, Melanie Oberman, Jennifer Ricks, Anne Riley, Andrew Sadowski, Michelle Salmen, Jonathan Skolnick, Jodi Smith, Luke Smith, Edward Stephen, Alejandro Tosta, Carla Viana, Julie Wright.
As the topic of leadership and ethics at Fuqua becomes increasingly prominent in the curriculum, in discussions and in practice, the COLE Leadership Fellows Program will continue to work with the administration and the student groups to champion and foster discussions at Fuqua that embrace the notion of what it means to be a leader of consequence. The 2009-2010 COLE Leadership Fellows class is sponsored by a grant from Cushman & Wakefield. Visit the COLE website ( www.leadershipandethics.org ) for information about other COLE programs and upcoming events.