Leadership Reflected

Catalog description

This course provides the basis for EMPA students to engage in deep, intentional reflection before completing the program. This culminating course centers on slowing down and paying attention as powerful tools for leadership practice. This discipline is critical to building the habits of mind to become impactful public service leaders in today's increasingly complex, uncertain, and volatile world. The course is designed to guide students toward producing a culminating individual project that gives them a clearer sense of who they are as a leader and how they think they'll be able to make an impact going forward. To this end, this course will explore: the issues of self at work, including ways of paying attention to the individual, small group, and large group dynamics of organizational life; the concept of knitting together past work as evidence of development and growth; the use of work experience as a place of leadership learning; and ways to create space for reflection.