IU's Tobias Center launches 1st Annual Hoosier Fellows Leadership Development Program
10/26/2005 (Kelley Indianapolis)
Applications still welcome for 2006 class of unique leadership program
It's been said that "It takes leaders to grow more leaders." That’s the premise of one of the first major programs of Indiana University’s Randall Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence, the Hoosier Fellows. Hoosier Fellows are a group of promising mid-career leaders from business, education, government, religion and the non-profit sector who will embark on a year-long study of leadership facilitated by the Tobias Center. At the end of the year, Hoosier Fellows will be better prepared to lead within their own organizations, and to share what they’ve learned with others.
The Hoosier Fellows will be an annual program organized by the Tobias Center, with 20 -30 participants in each class who will attend monthly seminars and networking sessions. For example, the first 2006 (January 19-20) session starts with a welcome reception featuring Ambassador Randall L. Tobias, former Chairman and CEO of Eli Lilly and current U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. The next day, Dennis N.T. Perkins, author of Leading at the Edge, will present a day- long adventure in leadership learning that draws upon Sir Ernest Shackleton's famous 1914 Antarctic voyage and survival story. Later sessions will include a study on military leadership that includes a trip to the Zussman Urban Combat Training Complex at Fort Knox, and a focus on Benedictine leadership with the monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Southern Indiana.
The Tobias Center started the Hoosier Fellows program as part of its unique mission to act as a source, collaborator and convener on the subject of leadership. With funding from the Randall L. Tobias Foundation, the Center takes a practical approach to leadership studies designed to develop and encourage leaders in the corporate, educational and non-profit arenas, in Indiana and across the nation. The Center is housed at the IU Kelley School of Business Indianapolis on the IUPUI campus and is a collaboration of the Kelley School, the IU School of Education, the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the IU Center on Philanthropy on the IUPUI and Bloomington campuses.
"The Hoosier Fellows program is a very hands-on extension of the Tobias Center's mission," said Gerald Bepko, former IUPUI Chancellor, and the Tobias Center's Director. "The Fellows will have a unique opportunity to learn about leadership from a variety of perspectives – and learn from each other as well, coming from different walks of life and types of organization. They'll come out of this experience with a wonderful set of tools for leadership in their own careers, and the responsibility to transmit what they've learned to others."
The inaugural 2006 class is rapidly approaching capacity; interested applicants can visit http://www.tobiascenter.iu.edu/hoosier.html for more information and to apply.
The IU Kelley School of Business has been a leader in American business education for more than 80 years. With an enrollment of 3,716 undergraduate and over 1000 graduate students, it is among the premier business schools in the country, with both the undergraduate and graduate programs ranked among the best in the United States. Kelley's Indianapolis programs, based at IUPUI, include the school’s part-time graduate programs and a full-time undergraduate program.
