Description: Leading from Within is an interactive, 12-week personal development course designed to help participants connect with their core values and behaviors, discover their personal strengths, increase their self-awareness, establish personal accountability, engender trust with others, and increase their decision-making and collaboration skills.

Participants will develop their leadership skills in three ways: (1) interactive classroom education, (2) behavioral development application activities, (3) peer interaction and problem solving.

Key Takeaways:

• Establish and instill habits that support personal accountability.
• Understand and apply behaviors that create trust between peers and supervisors.
• Expand your decision-making and critical thinking abilities.
• Effectively engage others in collaboration.

Course Benefits: Designed as an engaging, practical application of leadership behaviors, led by a seasoned and credentialed instructor, participants will create specific behavioral objectives with real-world application strategies. The highly collaborative and interactive learning experience provides a space to gain new perspectives, test strategies, and achieve better results.

Who Should Attend:

• Professionals entering a leadership role who want to build strong leadership behaviors from the start.
• Professionals in their initial stages of leadership who want to build on their leadership skills and improve their performance.
• Seasoned professionals who want to reinvigorate their professional lives and create better outcomes where they may have struggled in the past.

Professor Biography:

Mallard Owen, Ph.D., has more than thirty years of diverse senior leadership expertise, having launched new businesses, nurtured startups, guided non-profits, and transformed struggling organizations. Central to Mal’s success has been building strong teams, creating winning strategic alliances, providing an outstanding work environment, maximizing existing resources, and leveraging innovative technologies and information systems. Importantly for sustainable success, he believes that “how you get there” is as important as “what you achieve.”

Mal’s leadership and consulting talents have led him to work across a wide range of organizations in fields such as health/wellness, information technology, hospitality, arts and culture, legal, government/defense contractors, and executive search. Mal is active in non-profit service and professional organizations in the areas of community service, workforce development, and business performance. One of Mal’s most cherished activities in the Washington, DC, area was his five-year role as the co-leader of one of the largest, non-profit career support groups in the U.S. Recognized for its accomplishments by the U.S. Department of Labor, the group’s success led to his being invited multiple times by two Secretaries of Labor to provide his insights in focus groups and participate in special events hosted at the White House.

Course Information:

Date: Wednesdays, January 15 – April 2, 2025

Time: 9:00 – 11:00 am

Modality: Hybrid, consisting of 2 hours each week of in-person sessions with online supportive work

Location: University of Jamestown-Phoenix

3110 N Central Ave, Suite L-190, Phoenix, AZ

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, January 8

Class Size: Limited to ten participants

Registration Questions: Please email Rob Stenson at robert.stenson@uj.edu.

Unruh School of Character in Leadership Mission: As an academic community dedicated to pursuing knowledge in an atmosphere of Christian love, the Unruh School of Character in Leadership prepares students by developing the knowledge, values, attitudes, and skills that will enable them to live and lead with character, integrity, and courage.

For more information about the Unruh School, please contact Liz Hunt, Ph.D., Executive Director (lhunt@uj.edu).