Fellows Deliver Team Presentations on Admired Leaders
On Friday, April 28th, the Fellows gave team presentations on selected, admired leaders to an audience of their cohort, coordinators, and Dr. Chris Roland—one of the facilitators of our fall orientation retreat who provided individual leadership coaching sessions for the Fellows this spring.
The Admired Leaders presentation event is the capstone session for the Fellows’ year-long leadership development seminar led by Dr. Jack McCarthy, HHHP Director and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior. The cohort had been working over the entire Fellowship year toward this session, which served as a platform for them to demonstrate leadership and teamwork through working together and acting upon the lessons from Dr. McCarthy’s lectures and their coaching sessions with Dr. Roland.
Each team presented on their Admired Leader for fifteen minutes, and ten minutes of Q&A followed. The Fellows were instructed to choose by consensus someone who exhibits exemplary leadership and to avoid “celebrity” leaders (e.g., Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, etc.). The Fellows presented on the following leaders:
Majid Samii, a distinguished Iranian-German neurosurgeon and medical scientist who established Africa 100, an education foundation for training 100 neurosurgeons across Africa. Presenters: Mahmoud Mohammadi Khomeini, Josiane Sylvie Mbakop Noukeu, Beatriz Gonzalez, and Zamir Khan
Michelle Obama, the former first lady of the United States who launched initiatives such as Let’s Move and Let Girls Learn. Presenters: Pakaiphone Syphoxay, Valeria Rios Molina, Sevgim Çelik Keskin
Strive Masiyiwa, a London based Zimbabwean businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Masiyiwa is the founder and executive chairman of the international telecommunications group Econet Wireless and a member of the Africa Progress Panel, a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. Presented by Edward Kapili, Labada Mini, and Sera Kaukilakeba
Each team presented for fifteen minutes, and 10 minutes of Q&A followed.
After each team completed their presentation, each Fellow within the team provided a five-minute, personal summary of their own Leadership Development Plan with reference to the key lessons they learned over the past year.
It was a wonderful afternoon of presentation and discussion, and it was also the last opportunity for the entire 2016–2017 cohort to meet as a group.
