Empathy, Motivation, Innovation, and Passion: Explorations in Leadership at Arcadia University

Arcadia's Honors Leadership I class (the first in a two semester leadership requirement) teaches students how to create empathy and shared vision, to motivate, to design and innovate, to communicate effectively and to find their passion. This is accomplished through "apprentice-like" challenges, interviews of community leaders and serious meta-cognitive reflection. This presentation will focus on the objectives, pedagogy and the unexpected successes and failures of trying to teach such personal, amorphous and yet deeply necessary skills.