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  • RLF Reflection: Leadership Lessons from Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition

    January 12, 2021

    On January 7th, Will Dickerman gave a presentation on leadership qualities as displayed by a historical polar explorer Earnest Shackleton on his Antarctic expedition. Shackleton’s ship sunk; he split up the crew; left one group with one of them in-charge, took a smaller group with him and risked his life going to another island on a life-boat. Despite landing on the wrong side of the island, he was not discouraged but after careful consideration he made a judgement call to leave behind some of the injured crew and went on a land expedition.

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  • RLF Reflection: Leadership Across Cultures

    December 1, 2020

    For the asynchronous cohort week of November 13th, Byul “B” Ha gave a detailed presentation on cross-cultural communication. Her presentation, delivered over the internet, began with a series of questions designed to demonstrate to the audience the relevance of cross-cultural communication in an ever-globalized world. Next, B set the scene by defining what “culture” is— “a system of behavior that helps us act in an accepted or familiar way”—and what defines cross-cultural leadership as an independent school of leadership theory.

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  • RLF Recap: "Overcoming Obstacles and Breaking Down Barriers"

    November 16, 2020

    The final fall term session of the Rockefeller Leadership Fellows program, led by Angela Winfield, focused on understanding social identity through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion. A woman of many talents, Angela has honed her understanding of the session topic through her many professional experiences, but most notably as the Associate Vice President for Inclusion and Workforce Diversity at Cornell University. So, what is social identity?

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  • RLF Recap: "Leading Creative Collaborations"

    November 12, 2020

    Dartmouth College alumnus and the speaker for Session 8 of the Rockefeller Leadership Fellows program Professor Peter Robbie ‘69 opened the session with an award-winning Nike advert titled “Write the Future.” The video depicts a number of famous soccer players having widespread impacts around the world as they play their sport. To Professor Robbie, the takeaway of the ad is simple: leaders lead the world into the future with playfulness and creativity.

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  • RLF Recap: "Adaptive Action: Leading Change in Uncertain Times"

    November 12, 2020

    The opening words from Kerry Priest for the seventh session of Rockefeller Leadership Fellows were “leadership is an activity so we can get better at it.” Kerry shared that she views a difference between a leader as a noun and leadership as a verb. To her, the word leader focuses on a person or position–something people “are.” Leadership focuses on people (relationships) and processes (activity)–something people “do.” The entire point of RLF is to develop leadership skills, supporting Kerry’s hypothesis.

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