The Center for Leadership and Character recently conducted a half-day Honorable Integration Workshop for faculty members to provide hands-on demonstrations of select tools to incorporate lead ethically and personal strengths into curricular, co- and extra-curricular activities.
The 2014-2015 Service Academy Leadership Conference Program has concluded its second year with great success. Six Wake Forest students represented the school at student leadership conferences at the United States Naval Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, The Citadel, and the United States Military Academy at West Point.
On Thursday, April 23, Center Executive Director, Dr. Sean Hannah, along with area women business leaders Ann Johnston, Judy Lambeth, and Melissa Combes judged the first annual Women’s Leader Development Legacy Project. This project, a part of Julie Wayne’s Leadership Experience class, involved students creating proposals to provide new opportunities for programs and initiatives to be incorporated into the School of Business and across the University.
The final service academy student leadership conference of the academic year was held April 16-19, 2015 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Representing Wake Forest was senior business and enterprise management major, Nicole White.
On Thursday, April 16, the CLC sponsored Jack Krol, retired chairman and CEO of DuPont, to share insights and perspectives regarding ethical leadership with a group of students across multiple programs and majors, as well as within the classroom of a Dynamics in Organizations class.
Carlos Brito, Chief Executive Officer of AB InBev (Anheuser-Busch InBev), visited the School of Business March 23 to share his perspectives on global leadership. Carlos leads an organization of approximately 155,000 employees based in 25 countries and realized revenue of $47.1 billion in 2014.
“Leadership is an art.” That’s what junior Wake Forest student Addison McLamb says after returning from the 8th Annual Principled Leadership Symposium last week. McLamb spent part of his spring break representing Wake Forest at this student conference, held at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. This year’s symposium theme was “Principled Leadership as Honor: The Code, The Medal, The Ethos.”
On Wednesday, March 4, the Center for Leadership and Character welcomed Dr. Gary Chapman to the School of Business for a discussion with students, faculty and staff on servant leadership and Why Service Matters.
In January and February, four Wake Forest students represented their school at student leadership conferences at the United States Naval Academy and United States Air Force Academy. The Center for Leadership and Character sponsors the Student Academies Leadership Conference Program, for which any undergraduate student at the University is welcome to apply.
The Wake Forest Ethics and Leadership Debate Team took home top honors in the North Carolina Ethics Bowl held February 7-8 at Campbell University School of Law in Raleigh. This win marks the third time that Wake Forest has won this Ethics Bowl – having earned top honors in 2012, 2014, and 2015.