Past Lecture

Amateur Hour: Presidential Character and the Question of Leadership

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 17:36:13 +0000

Amateur Hour: Presidential Character and the Question of Leadership Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/27/2021 - 11:36

We are happy to present a free virtual discussion between CU President Mark Kennedy and Lara M. Brown, Ph.D., Director and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University.

A distinguished writer and dedicated scholar, Dr. Brown is the author of Amateur Hour: Presidential Character and the Question of Leadership.

The centerpiece of Dr. Brown's book is the focus on our understanding—from the time of Washington, through Lincoln, to the contemporary period—of the role that character should play, but often has not, of late, in terms of the person elected to the White House and how they conduct themselves in the office and as a leader. Brown’s analysis interrogates the scholarship around the concept of presidential psychology and leadership, while unpacking the connections between leadership in this complicated elected office and how we have, more recently, elected presidents who are often lacking in experience, and why this is problematic.

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Presented by the University of Colorado Boulder Conference on World Affairs and co-sponsored by the Center for Leadership.

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Centering Relationships & Building Trust

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:45:48 +0000

Centering Relationships & Building Trust Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/01/2021 - 10:45

About the Webinar

CU Boulder's Center for Leadership presents David Brooks as the 2021 Leo Hill Leadership Speaker Series marquee speaker. Brooks presented Leadership: Centering Relationships and Building Trust, which illuminates how all citizens can be leaders in repairing our country’s social fabric. Brooks focused mostly on his work with Weave, an initiative within the Aspen Institute, that emphasizes a fundamental shift in the U.S. from hyperindividualism and personal success to relationalism that places relationships at the center of our lives.

For far too long, Brooks says, successful leadership has been attributed to those who can do the most in the least time, generate the most revenue, and earn every promotion. How can ‘I’ be the best instead of how can ‘we’ move the needle. Today, our country needs more of the latter. A nation consumed with deep inequity, distrust, isolation and division can only be healed by leaders who build bridges, center connection, and deepen trust.

About the Speaker

Brooks joined the Aspen Institute in March 2018 to spearhead a bold new project aimed at bridging the differences that divide Americans and seeking out a compelling common ground. He is a New York Times columnist, a commentator on NPR and PBS NewsHour, and author of five books, including The Road to Character and The Second Mountain. @nytdavidbrooks @weavetheppl

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1fBYbuLyCg]

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Leadership and Curiosity: Why History’s Greatest Leaders Were Readers

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:22:47 +0000

Leadership and Curiosity: Why History’s Greatest Leaders Were Readers Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 01/27/2021 - 18:22

About the Webinar

Is leadership a teachable art? Benson Center Associate Faculty Director/Engineering Leadership Program Director Shilo Brooks will discuss this question, and why many of the most successful leaders in the history of science, politics, and the arts were deeply curious and broadly educated people of wonder and imagination. Part of the College of Engineering & Applied Science Alumni Webinar Series.

Historical leaders such as The Wright Brothers, Abraham Lincoln, Sandra Day O'Connor, Cyrus the Great, Frederick Douglass, and Niccolò Machiavelli will be examined alongside modern leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, Elizabeth Holmes, and Elon Musk.

About the Speaker

Shilo Brooks is Faculty Director of CU’s Engineering Leadership Program, which puts STEM into conversation with the liberal arts to cultivate engineering and technology leaders of curiosity and character. A political theorist by training, he writes widely on leadership, science, and culture. He holds appointments in the Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program and the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics, and Society, and has been a fellow at Princeton University and the University of Virginia. He is the Benson Center's Associate Faculty Director.

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Is Civil Discourse Dead? A Conversation with Robert George and Cornel West

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Is Civil Discourse Dead? A Conversation with Robert George and Cornel West Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/21/2021 - 00:00

About the Webinar

Professors Robert George of Princeton University and Cornel West of Harvard University will join Dr. Scott Powell, Director of the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought at CU Boulder for an honest conversation about friendship, faith, and the state of civil discourse across our nation’s political and cultural divides. George and West represent monumentally different points of view politically, culturally, and socially, yet, they have been a public example of thoughtfulness and of a close friendship which is unbound by partisan divides. They have co-taught courses together, written together, and have traveled the globe speaking together about the importance of liberal education and honest civil dialogue. Join us for this critically important and timely conversation online over Zoom. Registration is free. Sponsored by the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought, with help from the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization and the Center for Leadership.

About the Speakers

Dr. Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He also served as the U.S. member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. His honors include the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, and Princeton’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Dr. Cornel West is a philosopher, author, activist, social critic, and one of America’s most vital public intellectuals. He has published more than 20 books, has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films and has produced three spoken word albums including Never Forget, collaborating with Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, KRS-One and the late Gerald Levert. Dr. West is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University.

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