The program aims to provide students with vital skills, knowledge, and mindset to become successful leaders. It emphasizes developing leadership competencies, nurturing social responsibility, building self-awareness, encouraging teamwork and collaboration, and improving communication and decision-making abilities.
Boost your leadership skills, champion equity and accessibility, and level up your well-being - join the Leadership Development Institute!
Leadership skills are essential to all success - learning how to lead teams will help prepare you for your time past Emerson, discover your strengths, and make a positive impact. The Institute prepares students for future careers, boosts confidence, and equips students with essential skills for success in all aspects of life!
Goal: Build team leadership skills by promoting collaboration, conflict resolution and management, delegation of work, team building, and motivating team members
Goal: Develop ethical, inclusive, and socially just leadership by encouraging ethical decision-making, social responsibility, and consideration of the impact of their actions
Goal: Cultivate individual and group wellbeing by analyzing and implementing practices that contribute to wellbeing, identifying strategies for building a sense of belonging, and promoting wellbeing within their community
The Institute includes leadership skills, equity and accessibility, and wellbeing components with opportunities for students to explore each. The Institute is self-paced and students have the ability to choose their own paths and make their own sequence of workshops, events, reflections, lectures, and more!
The Institute focuses on three commitments: Leadership, Equity & Accessibility, and Wellbeing. Each commitment is assigned a series of programs, initiatives, workshops, and more to ensure that students have the opportunity to explore the topics that most interest them. Some elements are passive, and others are active - students choose one passive and one active element under each Commitment, totaling six elements.
To complete the Institute, students typically take an average of 10 hours throughout the entire year.
All undergraduate Emerson students are automatically enrolled in the Institute and can track their progress through EmConnect under My Checklists. Students who complete the program are recognized at the annual Emerson Recognition & Achievement Awards with a certificate and LDI-branded sweatshirts.
