Professor McCarthy runs Second Session on Leadership Development
On Friday, October 7th, HHHP Director Jack McCarthy led his second session on leadership development for the BU cohort. He described how, over the course of the next several months, the Fellows will undergo a series of sessions during which they examine the habits, skills, and perspectives that they need to develop as leaders. As part of this curriculum, a professional 360-degree confidential feedback process will be conducted, in which candid feedback data of Fellows’ leadership practices and experiences from supervisors, colleagues, and employees in their home countries and here in the U.S. will be collected. Private expert coaching will then be provided to each Fellow based on their self-assessment and the feedback from others. The Fellows will then create a personal leadership development plan that they will present to the Humphrey cohort and coordinators.
Professor McCarthy continued with a description of the many ways in which the world is changing an ever-accelerating pace, the pressing global challenges that have emerged as a result, and some of the innovative solutions that have been devised to address those challenges. Given that most of our Fellows specialize in banking, finance, and education, he underscored the great global gap in wealth and challenged the Fellows to consider how they can support others to make the world fairer and more just—to apply their talents not to be the best in the world, but for the world. He further cited the “triple bottom line” of People, Planet and Profit that needs to be considered in tackling the world’s development challenges.