As an Ohio State alum, I’ve been quite fortunate to be involved from an early stage in a new leadership development program for undergraduate students, Buckeye Leadership Fellows.
The program is designed to bring together the best and brightest third- and fourth-year undergrads in a privately funded, world-class personal and professional development experience that aims for the students to develop a deep sense of self-awareness which they accomplish via exercises and projects that require risk-taking and the application of creativity and innovative thinking.
All of that is a very fancy way of saying that we’re trying to bring real world experiences to undergrads at Ohio State to help them develop an appreciation for the sorts of challenges they’ll face when they don mortarboards and bid campus adieu one last time.
The first challenge launched in Columbus in September 2011 and the final presentations were held in New York in mid-December. The results, as you can see above, were definitely on the mark!