The BHR Leadership Edition: May-June 2023
This special edition on Leadership arrives on the heels of our school’s marquee event, the Hospitality Leadership Summit.
One overarching theme among these innovators was centered on well-being: taking care of our mental and physical health. In this way, the Summit presents a fitting segue to this special edition on Leadership, edited by Richard Currie, Ph.D.,Assistant Professor of Leadership and Workplace Psychology at Boston University School of Hospitality Administration.
Coming off of all the pivots during Covid-19, for both employees and employers, our relationship with work and the workplace is still trying to right itself out of a tailspin. We have seen a reckoning of the old “live-to-work” model in favor of the more balanced, “work-to-live” approach that emphasizes quality of life.
As an institution of higher learning, we have the immense and vitally important responsibility to teach and model leadership skills and values that exemplify being upstanders for fair, kind, and respectful treatment of others. We can only get to the metaphorical “summit” in our professional and personal lives if we take these steps forward.