The Leadership Course

THE ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LEADERSHIP AND PERFORMANCE: BEING A LEADER AND THE EFFECTIVE EXERCISE OF LEADERSHIP

If there ever was a time for a new model of leadership, that time is now. The new Leadership Course created by Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari Granger and , that will acquaint you with a new approach of leadership; a new and unique model of leadership based on access to leadership (being a leader) and integrity.

The course is a leadership laboratory where instructors work with the participants to create direct access to the ways of being, thinking, planning, and action required to be a leader and to exercise leadership effectively – in any situation, and no matter the circumstances.

This course, while still in development, has been taught since 2005 at the University of Rochester Simon School of Business to MBA, PhD, and Executive Development Program students, faculty, administrators, alumni and outside corporate executives. It is currently being taught to undergraduates and faculty at the United States Air Force Academy. In August 2008, the course was also taught to some 250 senior management consultants from 66 separate firms. In January 2009 the course was presented at Erasmus Academie in Rotterdam (a version of which was taught at the Erasmus University Law School and at the Nanyang Business School in Singapore in 2011). The course was presented at Texas A&M University Mays School of Business in June 2010, and in India under the auspices of the IC Centre for Governance and MW Corp in November 2010. The course will be presented in Dubai in February 2012 and at Dartmouth Medical School in June 2012. An abstract of the working paper titled, "Creating Leaders: An Ontological Model" is available at Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge website.

In the course participants discover a new and powerful model of integrity and the difference between management and leadership. The course is designed to open up and leave participants with an expanded personal opportunity - ways of being, thinking, planning, and action that leave them being a leader and exercising leadership effectively. This new model of leadership and its practice is applicable for all domains of leadership, including personal leadership (being the leader of yourself and your own life) and team and organizational leadership in school, business, and any other area in which one would like to make a difference (e.g. family, community, and politics).