LÍDER: Carolina Leadership Institute

The Carolina Leadership Institute is a year-long, highly interactive leadership development program for all undergraduate students throughout the state of North Carolina with an interest in Latino culture and community.

Learning Outcomes:

  • The LÍDER fellows will:
    • Gain a greater understanding of the self as a leader.
    • Learn frameworks useful in leadership environments at school and in their community
    • Take on risks, are vulnerable, and communicate their vision with clarity and enthusiasm
    • Participants will leave feeling empowered, understanding that they do not have to check their identity at the door to be a leader

Guiding Pillars:

  • Leadership Development through the development of self-awareness and interpersonal awareness
  • Fellowship Building through a celebration of diversity, inclusion, and integrity
  • Community Engagement through purposeful innovation to better our community

Objectives:

  • Session I Objective: Leadership Development and Fellowship Building
    • Participants will define leadership and begin to identify their leadership style through self-awareness, team building, and reflection exercises.
  • Session II Objective: Leadership Development and Community Engagement
    • Participants will learn and apply internal and external frameworks to identify and solve peer problems as well as real-world problems.
  • Session III Objective: Community Engagement
    • Participants will recognize a project they want to tackle and work to execute a plan for their idea as an individual or in teams.
  • Session IV Objective: Fellowship Building
    • Using the Open Space framework, participants will design their final workshop for the program. During the graduation event, participants will receive recognition for their hard work over the year.