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KLC Podcast: Act Experimentally

Act Experimentally. Hosted by Kansas Leadership Center president and CEO Ed O’Malley, this call features a conversation designed to help further your understanding of the importance of acting experimentally when exercising leadership.

KLC Podcast: Take the Temperature Teleconference

Take the Temperature. Hosted by Kansas Leadership Center president and CEO Ed O’Malley, this call features a conversation designed to help further your understanding of how to take the temperature when diagnosing the situation to exercise leadership.

KLC Podcast: Inspire A Collective Purpose Teleconference

Energizing Others requires an ability to inspire a collective purpose when exercising leadership. No special guest just alums asking questions and sharing stories about how to “inspire a collective purpose.” Find out what it means to inspire a collective purpose and how KLC faculty, staff and alumni are putting this key leadership behavior into action [...]

KLC Podcast: Leadership is Risky Teleconference

Leadership is Risky. Hosted by Kansas Leadership Center president and CEO Ed O’Malley, this call features a conversation designed to help further your understanding of how to navigate the risk associated with exercising leadership.

KLC Podcast: Make Conscious Choices Teleconference

Intervening Skillfully when exercising leadership requires an ability to make conscious choices. No special guest just alums asking questions and sharing stories about how to “make conscious choices.” Find out what it means to make conscious choices and how KLC faculty, staff and alumni are putting this key leadership behavior into action in civic life.

KLC Podcast: Start Where They Are Teleconference

Start Where They Are in relation to the audience you’re trying to influence. Energizing Others requires an ability to start where they are. No special guest, just alums asking questions and sharing stories about how to “start where they are.” Find out what it means to start where they are and how faculty, staff and KLC [...]

KLC Podcast: Hold to Purpose Teleconference

Hold To Purpose A significant component of Intervening Skillfully is an ability to hold to purpose.  No special guest, just alums asking questions and sharing stories about how to “hold to purpose.”

Not So Fast

Feet dangling over a bridge, hoping my boots don’t fall off into the slow-moving water, I sat peering at a sight mimicking my young professional life.  The water kept moving in one steady direction, gliding across a landscape of rocks strategically placed to change the water’s course. This past week I joined 22 young professionals [...]

Onward Kansas: Full-on Difference Making

A pair of Kansans with passion to improve the lives of others just got a turbo-boost. Wayne Bell, Wichita, and Shannon Cotsoradis, Lawrence, have been selected as the initial participants in Onward Kansas, the Kansas Leadership Center’s new, personalized leadership development experience designed for full-on, intensive difference making. Onward Kansas is designed as an individualized [...]

NEWLY-ELECTED KANSAS LAWMAKERS EMBARK ON LEADERSHIP JOURNEY

Nearly three dozen Kansans, recently elected to the state legislature for the first time, gathered recently as a group to learn how to maximize their ability to exercise leadership. Leadership and Legacy in the Statehouse – A New Legislator’s Program is an extensive seven-month program offered by the Kansas Leadership Center to address the unique [...]