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I left Claremont early Thursday morning (like before the sun came up early) and started my adventure to Texas. This was the first time that I had ever been to Texas and having been born and raised in southern California and then chosen to stay for college, I was excited about experiencing the great state of Texas! I arrived, made my way to the hotel and then hopped on the bus that would take us to our first day at the conference. There were about 140 of us attending from all over the United States, Mexico and Canada. We were divided into smaller teams of about 15-20, and my team named ourselves the "donkey sparrows." (at the time there was a good reason for that name, but I am not sure why now...) We had dinner and team bonding activities and then we had our first speaker Thursday night; Mary Robinson, the first female president of Ireland. Hearing her talk about the challenges she faced and the tough choices she had to make was fascinating. Friday morning we got up early to start our first full day at the conference. We had two speakers Friday morning. Dr. Howard T. Prince, the man whose inspiration is what made the conference possible and Dr. Raj Sisodia. Both spoke about ethical leadership, the conference theme, and Dr. Raj focused on ethical leadership in the business world, more specifically, "conscious capitalism." Following the speakers we had a workshop on the "Strengths Finder" Quiz that we all took prior to arriving at the conference. The assessment provided each of us with our 5 largest strengths our of 36 possible strength options. The results were very accurate and very different for each person. We analyzed how to best assemble a team and work toward our goal by utilizing each individual's strengths and developed specific strategies for leading effectively using our five strengths. That afternoon we had the first of three workshops, there were 12 difference workshops varying from motivation, inspirational leadership, followership and cross-cultural leadership. These were smaller breakout sessions that gave us the chance to meet more peer leaders and learn about difference topics more specifically. Ending the evening we had a beautiful reception at the LBJ Library with fantastic food! All and all the weekend was an experience that I will always remember. I meet an incredible group of people with a wide range of experiences and backgrounds but all of us held the common goal of wanting to become better leaders. Our group had students from the Naval Academy, the Air Force, schools from all over Texas, Oklahoma State, Stanford University, Purdue, New York and Canada. Even with our different backgrounds and goals, the lessons I learned from these students were invaluable. Being able to attend a conference like this was an incredible opportunity and one that I will always be thankful to the Kravis Leadership Institute for sponsoring me to do so.
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The Kravis Leadership Institute recently sponsored me to attend a 4-day leadership conference at the University of Texas-Austin. The conference was put on by the Center for Ethical Leadership by the Lyndon. B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.
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