Associate Director, Leadership Fellows Program, Wharton School

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Associate Director, Leadership Fellows Program, Wharton School

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Associate Director C, Student Services, Academic Programs

Job Description Summary

Founded in 1881 as the world’s first collegiate business school, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is shaping the future of business by incubating ideas, driving insights, and creating leaders who change the world. With campuses in Philadelphia and San Francisco, Wharton has over 850 staff, a faculty population of more than 235 renowned professors, and 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students. Each year, 13,000 professionals worldwide advance their careers through Wharton Executive Education’s individual, company-customized, and online programs. More than 104,000 Wharton alumni form a powerful global network of leaders who transform business every day. Wharton is home to a diverse staff population representing a rich array of backgrounds, expertise, and cultures. To learn more, visit www.wharton.upenn.edu.

At the McNulty Leadership Program of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, we see leadership as the act of making a positive difference in the world. We enable and support the pursuit of deeper self-awareness and improved leadership skills to advance individual success as well as team and organizational performance. Our mission is to develop leaders who act with a deeper understanding of themselves, their organizations, and their communities, and contribute positively to the performance and transformation of each; our core values consist of demonstrating compassion, striving for excellence, and always seeking learning.

We ask the participants in our programs to be students of leadership in and outside the classroom, to engage in stretch experiences that test their knowledge and skills, and to cultivate supportive relationships that foster growth and development. We give students and executives opportunities to:
• TAKE ACTION: By embracing leadership moments of their own making, our students can increase their resilience, adaptability, and capacity to lead in an authentic way.
• REFLECT: By coaching, mentoring, and gathering feedback from others, our students can develop their self-awareness, realize their salient character strengths, and identify opportunities for personal growth and development.
• EXPERIMENT: By accepting stretch experiences, our students can test and practice their range of leadership styles from directive to empowering to transformational.
• APPLY: By putting leadership lessons learned in and out of the classroom into deliberate practice, our students can build skills, especially the abilities to:
o Think creatively and critically