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Gott selected to serve on international leadership committee

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Trisha Gott, Ed.D., has been selected to serve as a member of the inaugural International Leadership Association Committee on the Advancement of Leadership Programs (CALP). Gott is an assistant professor and associate director of the Staley School of Leadership and a member of the Leadership Communication doctoral program faculty. The charge of CALP is to develop rigorous and relevant guiding standards for leadership programs and to create a process for assessment and evaluation of established leadership programs. This appointment is a three-year term.

Photo of trish gottThe International Leadership Association (ILA) is the largest worldwide community committed to leadership scholarship, development, and practice. Their programs and projects bring together members and partners to collectively impact the teaching, study, and practice of leadership and change.

“I am excited to be joining this group. Together we will work to continue to advance the field of leadership education and development and to understand more about how leadership learning takes place,” said Gott.

“Dr. Gott brings a wealth of experience as an administrator and educator to this work. Her body of scholarship demonstrates a commitment to approaches to program development that advances innovation amidst complexity and competing values within the field of leadership studies,” said Kerry Priest, Ph.D., director of the Leadership Communication doctoral program.

Celebrating the most recent Leadership Communication graduate

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Russell Plaschka, Ph.D., is the newest graduate of the Leadership Communication doctoral program at Kansas State University, completing in summer 2022. Leadership Communication is an interdisciplinary program with faculty from the Department of Communications and Agricultural Education, the Department of Communication Studies, the College of Education, the Staley School of Leadership and the A.Q. Miller School of Media and Communication. Continue reading “Celebrating the most recent Leadership Communication graduate” →

Leadership communication students win national awards

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Two K-State Leadership Communication doctoral students, Chibuzor Azubuike and N’Zoret Innocent Assoman, earned awards at the Association of Leadership Educators (ALE) Conference, in Kansas City, Missouri, June 26-29, 2022. The mission of ALE is to strengthen and sustain the expertise of professional leadership educators. Continue reading “Leadership communication students win national awards” →

Staley School of Leadership and leadership communication scholars strengthen and share expertise

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Several leadership communication graduate students and Staley School of Leadership faculty represented Kansas State University at the 2022 Association of Leadership Educators conference (ALE), June 26-29, in Kansas City, Missouri. The theme was “Leadership in the Middle of Everywhere.”

The ALE is a professional organization aimed at strengthening the expertise of leadership educators and developers. Staley School participants in the conference led presentations and discussions on leadership education research and innovative practice. As part of K-State’s land-grant mission, the Staley School and leadership communication doctoral program are dedicated to research that strengthens Kansas and global communities. Continue reading “Staley School of Leadership and leadership communication scholars strengthen and share expertise” →

Leadership communication celebrates spring grads

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From left: Tim Shaffer, Ph.D., Saya Kakim, Ph.D., Mac Benavides, Ph.D., and Kerry Priest, Ph.D.

The Leadership Communication doctoral program at Kansas State University proudly announces their spring 2022 graduates. Mac Benavides, Ph.D., and Saya Kakim, Ph.D., have completed their doctorates in Leadership Communication, an interdisciplinary program with faculty from the Department of Communications and Agricultural Education, the A.Q. Miller School of Media and Communication, the College of Education, and the Staley School of Leadership Studies.

Kakim and Benavides are the fourth and fifth graduates of the leadership communication doctoral program. Continue reading “Leadership communication celebrates spring grads” →

Graduate researcher takes leadership studies to multidisciplinary conferences 

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Chibuzor AzubuikeChibuzor Azubuike, Kansas State University Leadership Communication doctoral student and Staley School of Leadership Studies graduate teaching assistant, presented research at four virtual multidisciplinary conferences during the spring 2022 semester.  

Azubuike’s research interests include women, migration and development, and her presented papers focused on those topics at the conferences. The central theme across the conferences included women, sexuality, global south and inequality.  

Through a leadership communication lens, Azubuike analyzed the subjects of her research as agents of change from a negative or positive perspective. The topics of her presentations were influenced by her professional roles and background, as the founder of Haske WAEF, a nonprofit organization in Nigeria, and her work with women and youths.  Continue reading “Graduate researcher takes leadership studies to multidisciplinary conferences “ →

All the world’s a stage, and all of us are just leaders trying to connect upon it: Approaching contemporary leadership from a theatre performance perspective

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Leadership learning and Development

Cale Morrow continues this series on teaching and learning practices for leadership development. In this essay, Cale explores how educators can look to both contemporary leadership perspectives and theatre performance techniques to develop students’ social and emotional skills.

 

At the age of 17, I was asked to run a summer theatre camp for kids—nothing fancy, just a program offered to the public by a local dinner theatre in my hometown. We went about the usual theatre camp troupes, like line memorization tricks, costuming 101, and learning stage directions. We put on a short one act play by a first-time writer and everyone went home happy enough. From a theatre perspective, it was a 5/10 experience.

However, there was something other than basic theatre education that I observed while running this camp. I noticed that the participants began to perform better socially in the small group situations that the camp had created. They made friends quicker, spoke up more often when I asked a question, and developed a sense of confidence akin to someone ready to take on the world and whatever it had to throw at them. This change in the camp participants was my first experience with the positive impact of theatre techniques on a person’s social and emotional development. Continue reading “All the world’s a stage, and all of us are just leaders trying to connect upon it: Approaching contemporary leadership from a theatre performance perspective” →