The
second annual Leadership Challenge Event® (LCE) is March 29-30 at Washburn
University. The LCE allows students to partake in a half-day leadership
conference on the Thursday where they will learn valuable and applicable skills
that they will apply that day and Friday. Friday is a unique leadership
competition where student teams perform leadership roles in addressing
realistic situations and experiences in a simulated work environment.
Ed O’Malley, president and CEO, Kansas Leadership Center, will be the keynote
speaker at the LCE Banquet, which begins at 6:15 p.m., in the Bradbury Thompson
Alumni Center, Washburn campus. O’Malley will speak at 7 p.m.
O’Malley spent four years as a state legislator, with a ringside seat for both
effective and ineffective displays of civic leadership. To him, leadership is
not a title, personality trait or workshop topic. Instead, it is an opportunity
that people can grasp and choose to exercise in many different ways and venues.
O’Malley sees his role – and that of the Kansas Leadership Center – as
fostering an environment throughout Kansas that makes civic leadership
opportunities accessible, possible and inspirational for Kansans of all ages
and from all walks of life.
The LCE is the first of its kind and has taken root at Washburn University with
the planning of the Washburn University Leadership Institute. The Washburn
University Leadership Institute strives to develop students into ethical,
caring and diverse leaders prepared to immediately assume leadership roles in
today’s changing society by cultivating the study of leadership and
facilitating transformational learning experiences designed to challenge,
motivate and inspire future leaders.
For more information about the LCE, contact Daphne Phillips, student director
of community and alumni, Washburn University Leadership Institute, at
(785) 865-6182 or daphne.phillips@washburn.edu.
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Amanda Hughes, university relations, (785) 670-2153
