Emerging Leaders Academy
The Emerging Leaders Academy (ELA), sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, is a university-wide program established to enhance leadership development for our tenured faculty and P&S staff. The Emerging Leaders Academy aims to enhance the leadership abilities of employees currently serving in leadership roles, or those who aspire to such positions in the future. Emphasis is placed on development of depth of leadership skills as well as to the diversification of the potential pool of leadership candidates.
The Emerging Leaders Academy is offered biennially. Throughout the calendar year in which the program is offered, the ELA cohort participates in monthly leadership sessions led by on-campus and outside experts. The program sessions focus on leadership research, theory and practice, and ISU's past, present and future strengths and challenges. They also include a broader range of topics such as balancing family and professional roles and the effects of gender and diversity issues on work teams. The program culminates in a semester-long mentoring experience for each participant with a current Iowa State leader.
The members of each ELA cohort are selected by nomination. The nomination process for each cohort begins the previous fall semester. To be considered for nomination, faculty members must be tenured, and P&S staff must be at level P35 or above.
Recently, thirty ISU faculty and P&S staff members were selected to participate in the 2012 cohort. The next Emerging Leaders Academy cohort will begin on January 26, 2012 for new enrollees.
