Second Global Leadership Symposium at Questrom School of Business
On October 21st, the Humphrey Program’s second Global Leadership Symposium was conducted between the Humphrey Fellows and Questrom undergraduate students in Professor Sandra Deacon‘s undergraduate course, The Leadership Challenge—as an integrated element of that course’s curriculum on the global dimensions of leadership in the modern world.
In the first half of the three-hour class, HHHP Director and Questrom Professor Jack McCarthy delivered a lecture and interactive seminar on Global Leadership in Action, which he concluded by challenging the students to imagine the types of questions about global leadership they would want to ask leaders in countries around the world such as Bolivia, Cameroon, and the eight other countries represented by our 2016–2017 Humphrey cohort. After a short break, our Fellows and staff entered the classroom as a dynamic and dramatic surprise, introduced themselves, and then participated in rotating, small group discussions with Professor Deacon’s students, serving as real-world global leaders. The session concluded with a whole-class debrief moderated by Professor McCarthy where many clear, vibrant lessons on global leadership emerged. A number of the students expressed that this symposium was a highlight of their BU experience.
This signature event of our Fall Humphrey seminar curriculum provided Fellows and Questrom students alike the opportunity to engage in meaningful, cross-cultural dialogue concerning the challenges and opportunities of global leadership in the 21st century.