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The LeadState facilitation team comprises professional staff, faculty and administrators from across campus. Members organize leadership events, coordinate service opportunities, present leadership workshops and serve as leadership coaches who meet with students several times throughout the semester. 

Student participants will work with a group of peers throughout the semester, alongside our facilitation team, developing their leadership capacity while working on a shared service project. Interested students will also have the opportunity for one-on-one leadership coaching the spring following their fall experience.

As an intensive co-curricular leadership development experience, LeadState's mission is to:

• Help students identify and build on their leadership strengths through work with Gallup, Inc.'s StrengthsFinder tool.
• Connect them with emerging and established campus and community leaders.
• Engage them in meaningful service and reflection.
• Assist them through the development and pursuit of their leadership goals.
• Enhance their leadership efficacy.
• Prepare them for personal and professional success in future endeavors.

Strengths

• Using the Clifton Strengths assessment tool, which categorizes talents in 34 general areas, LeadState students are introduced to the top five talent themes that are specific to them.
• Through interactive presentations, guidance from our facilitation team, peer testimonials and self-reflection, each student discovers effective ways to build upon their talents to develop strengths and understand how to apply them to the various roles they may plan on and off campus.

Values

• Utilizing resources in Drew Dudley's leadership guide "This is Day One," students will dive into the values that guide their beliefs the most, providing them a space to discover, define and ultimately deliver the leadership behaviors that matter to them.

Social Change

• LeadState endorses and utilizes the Social Change Model for Leadership Development to educate students on the relationship between leadership and collaborative service efforts. When used together, the two (leadership and service) can create a powerful vehicle for effecting positive societal change.
• Based on Komives and Wagner's work in "Leadership for a Better World," the Social Change Model hinges on seven intersecting principles that drive how individuals engage leadership within themselves, within a group and within a community. They are Consciousness of Self, Congruence, Commitment, Collaboration, Common Purpose, Controversy with Civility and Citizenship.

Service

• In partnership with Jack's Cupboard, LeadState facilitators help coordinate a service focused activity for our students and encourage them to find additional opportunities related to their interests and goals. LeadState participants are grouped into "clusters," each planning and implementing their own service project. We believe that it is through participation in and sharing of meaningful experiences that essential learning takes place.

Leadership Development Plan

• While not an official tenet of the program, the Leadership Development Plan is a central part of the LeadState Experience. Students are asked to reflect on both the breadth and depth of their past leadership experiences – roles, challenges and accomplishments – as well as their personal perspective on leadership, how it’s defined and the characteristics of effective leaders.
• With that foundation, students craft the LDP. The plan involves identifying their values, defining what those values look like in action and affirming those values through accessible, realistic daily goals. Throughout the semester, students reflect on their value commitments with their LeadState coaches and peers.