The course is a laboratory for developing yourself as a leader
The unique content and learning/teaching methods employed in this course are based on a new ontological / phenomenological model of leader and leadership. This new model of leadership has been specifically designed to provide you with access to being a leader and to the effective exercise of leadership as your natural self-expression.
- Rather than studying and trying to emulate the characteristics, styles, and actions of noteworthy leaders, or to merely impart knowledge about leadership, this new model of leadership provides you with access to being a leader and to the effective exercise of leadership as your natural self-expression.
- Rather than providing you with an epistemological mastery of leader and leadership (which leaves you knowing), we will provide you with access to an ontological mastery of leader and leadership (which leaves you being a leader and exercising leadership as your natural self-expression).
This leadership course will provide you with opportunities to:
- achieve significant breakthroughs in your professional and personal life – in any environment in which you are committed to making a difference, and
- provide you with access to the ways of being, thinking, planning, and acting required to be a leader and to exercise leadership effectively.
For those holding a leadership position or those with little or no leadership experience, this course has an established record of making a significant difference for participants.
When you have completed this course, you will have experienced whatever personal transformation is required for you to be a leader as your natural self-expression – in any environment and no matter what conditions confront you. Even when you personally lack certain experience or knowledge, you will know what to do to be an effective leader.
Something You Should Know About This Course
Given what we are promising you from your participation in the six class days of this course, you will have to be completely free of any outside obligations. As a result, you will have to set aside (reserve) the entire day and evening of each of the class days, and most of the middle two practice days between the two three-day sections of the course. The course is challenging, and will require a good deal of intellectual effort on your part outside the classroom. There will be assignments for you to complete each morning before and each evening after class, as well as during each break (including the lunch break). And, there will be a major assignment to be completed during the middle two practice days. Given all of the foregoing, it will support you in realizing the promise of the course if you think about it as a leadership intensive – something well beyond the average classroom experience.
The History Of This Course
This course was created when it was first taught (from 2004 through 2008) at the University of Rochester Simon School of Business, NY, USA by utilizing the classroom as a laboratory. Since 2008 the course has been continuously developed and taught by us every year in an academic institution, such as the United States Air Force Academy, the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Clemson University’s College of Business in South Carolina, USA, and most recently at the University of California at Los Angeles. The course has been taught to undergraduates, graduate students, administrators, alumni, business executives, management consultants, and faculty from various academic institutions. The course has also been offered to the public by us in five international locations such as Whistler, B.C. Canada (2012) and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (2016), each for the benefit of the Erhard-Jensen Ontological / Phenomenological Initiative (a charitable foundation).
Since 2010 (in that year under the sponsorship of the Kauffman Foundation, the Gruter Institute, and the United States Air Force Academy) we have trained over 150 scholars to effectively deliver the course. These scholars (all of whom had previously taken the course) are from various academic institutions from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, the West Indies, the Middle East, and Russia. Forty-four of these scholars are currently offering the course in their universities or colleges. We have also taught the course to a group of over 200 management consultants from more than 60 firms who now offer the course or material from the course to their clients, which clients include almost all the top Fortune 50 companies.