Wharton cuts ribbon on new leadership suite
Emily Schiller (WG'09)
Issue date: 1/25/10 Section: News
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The Center for Leadership and Change Management, headed by Prof. Mike Useem, funds faculty research, organizes an annual leadership conference for executives, publishes the bi-monthly Leadership Digest and supports other academic events and research on leadership education.
The Wharton Leadership Program (WLP) includes Executive Education, Graduate and Undergraduate Leadership Programs. WLP designs and executes curricular and extra-curricular leadership learning opportunities for people at all stages of their careers, starting in high school and continuing through MBAs, mid-career managers and senior-level executives. In addition, WLP collaborates with schools across the University, notably Penn Medicine, the School of Social Policy and Practice, and the Graduate School of Education.
"We are excited to announce that the Graduate and Undergraduate Leadership Programs are now located in the same place," says Jeff Klein, Director of the Wharton Graduate Leadership Program. "This allows for greater collaboration across programming, optimizes the expertise of staff, and creates a sense of teamwork that is critical for the work we do."
The new space minimizes individual workspace - staff members at every level work in open cubicles - and maximizes collaborative work areas via small break-out rooms around the perimeter. A quiet work space for student leaders is available in the front of the office with a social gathering space in the back.
Vice Dean Anjani Jain expressed his support and excitement about the new office. "It may seem odd to endow a remodeled office space with much meaning," he says, "but the new suite represents to us an important milestone in the evolution of Wharton's Leadership Programs, as a marker of both what we've accomplished so far under the visionary guidance of Prof. Mike Useem, and what we have the potential yet to achieve."
Faculty, staff, student leaders and partners attended the official Open House on January 19th, toured the new space and heard remarks from Useem, Klein, Anne Greenhalgh, Director of the Undergraduate Leadership Program, Georgette Chapman Phillips, Vice Dean of the Wharton Undergraduate Division, Wharton Dean Thomas S. Robertson and University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann.
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