Emerging Leadership Academy

Emerging Leadership Academy (ELA) helps you build practical leadership skills, earn digital badges, and gain recognition for your involvement. Register for one workshop or complete the full series to earn an ELA graduation cord. You can complete sessions across multiple semesters.

Each workshop includes interactive learning, reflection, and actionable takeaways, plus dinner!

Leadership is Action, Not Position: Building the Reflex to Step Up

Leading Self: Character

Facilitated by Air Force ROTC

Leadership doesn't start with a title. It starts with the decision to act. In this interactive workshop, you'll explore how small actions build trust, credibility, and influence, and learn practical strategies for stepping up, solving problems, and making an impact wherever you are. You'll leave with a simple framework for recognizing leadership opportunities and a personal action plan you can put into practice right away.

Why participate?

Earn a digital badge for each workshop to showcase on LinkedIn, résumés, and graduate school applications.Join a program where 90%+ of participants report increased confidence in leading teams and projects.Complete a workshop in each of the three core areas, Leading Self, Leading Others, and Leading Change, to earn a leadership graduation cord. Workshops can be completed across multiple semesters.Other dates in the Emerging Leadership Academy series:

Monday, Feb. 8Monday, March 8Monday, April 12