Reconceptualizing “Leadership” Development Programs: A Discussion of Whether Alternative Terminology Better Speaks to Programmatic Efforts and the Modern Student

This roundtable session is intended to be a community discussion of how we can re-conceptualize leadership development to better serve our students and communities. Informed by trends in the leadership literature and the personal experiences of the session’s facilitators, we want to discuss how alternative terminology and design of leadership-related initiatives could impact the appeal of such programs. This will be a highly interactive session that we hope will inform participants of the experiences of their fellow leadership educators and challenge them to introduce novel approaches at their home institutions.