This course provides students with the opportunity to explore leadership through multiple modes of inquiry and learning experiences. The emphasis is on students' development of their philosophies of leadership through self-reflection, peer-to-peer dialogue, and experiential learning opportunities. By inventorying their strengths, values, and behavior, students will gain comprehension of and appreciation for collaborating effectively while also engaging in respectful discourse. By doing so, students in this class will define what leading means for them, and how they can leverage their abilities to plan and execute positive, strategic change.

This course is designed to help students navigate diverse organizational settings more effectively and improve their ability to work within and lead diverse teams and organizations. It also offers students the opportunity to develop their critical thinking on topics such as identity, relationships across difference, discrimination and bias, equality, and equity in organizations and society and how they relate to organizational issues of power, privilege, opportunity, inclusion, creativity and innovation and organizational effectiveness.

Examines the management of change and innovation, especially the role of entrepreneur in managing new ventures. Uses case analysis, guest speakers, and business plan preparation to study the characteristic behavioral, organizational, financial, and marketing problems of entrepreneurs and new enterprises.

Demands on strategy have expanded in a new era of capitalism. Businesses must assume responsibility for addressing complex issues at the intersection of business and society. This course prepares students to drive change by leading purpose-driven businesses that engage all stakeholders, not just shareholders and management. Conscious capitalism and realizing that everything connects to everything else - ethics, economics, politics, culture, technology, environment - is the foundation for growing businesses while simultaneously solving global societal challenges.