Leadership
Lead with confidence based on a strong business foundation—at work, and around the world.
At Kelley, you’ll learn leadership through more than a course or a center. Leadership opportunities are built in throughout the program, even before day one. We’ll help you find your own perspective on leadership—so that you can understand and implement what you, and the people around you, need to be successful.
Through our MBA Program you will:
To be a successful leader, you must first understand yourself. In-depth, guided introspection begins prior to the start of your degree, then continues during orientation through our innovative Me, Inc. program. After Me, Inc., you will continue to discover more about yourself through your entire Kelley experience.
Effective leaders are also effective team members, able to influence regardless of status or position. As you build self-awareness, you will also build team-based skills, enabling you to tackle challenges through collaboration. From your first team experience and throughout the MBA Core, you’ll refine your leadership abilities with strategic planning, giving and receiving constructive feedback, and visioning: being able to see—and achieve—the long term objective.
Self-evaluation and refinement of your leadership style continues throughout the MBA Program. During the second semester of your first year, you’ll push your abilities to a new level through a real-world Academy-based project, delivering real impact to companies in the industry of your choice.
During your second year, as you further tailor your education to your specific career goals, you can pursue additional leadership opportunities by: - Becoming part of a select leadership team, guiding fellow students as you consult on an international business issue on location in GLOBASE—Global Business and Social Enterprise—our unique student-led global deployment initiative.
- Creating your own immersive global study program through Emerging Market Experience (EME), working with peers and faculty to develop a distinct curriculum—and business trip—for your team.
- Further developing your management and leadership skills through specialized Career Services training to become a peer coach, leading fellow Kelley MBAs toward their own goals.
