{"533081":{"#nid":"533081","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Leadership Fellows: Making an Impact in the Lives of Others and Ourselves","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn April 7\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E, LEAD held its third annual Leadership Fellows Recognition Luncheon to recognize Leading Edge\u2019s 49 Leadership Fellows (coaches) for the dedication they have shown towards the program and the personal growth of their coachees. As another school year comes to a close, the gathering gave the Fellows the opportunity to reflect back on their experience as leadership coaches in the Leading Edge (One-on-One Leadership Coaching) program and their impact on the Georgia Tech community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event kicked off with opening remarks about Leading Edge\u2019s impact on the institute from John Stein, Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students, then was followed by personal testimonies and words of thanks from coachees in this year\u2019s cohort of Leading Edge students. Prachi Kulkarni, a fourth year Computer Engineering student who participated in Leading Edge spoke at the luncheon, recounting her journey with her leadership coach, Brandy Blake. She described her experience, saying \u201cBrandy really pushed me to think out of the box and think for myself rather than just spoon feeding me. Through the experiments that she helped me design for myself, I was able to work on my weaknesses and improve on my strengths and emerge as a better leader. The organization that I\u2019m President for is actually winning a nation-wide award this year and I don\u2019t think that would have been possible if it wasn\u2019t for Brandy.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, with Leading Edge, the personal growth does not stop at the student being coached. The process of coaching undergraduate students and serving as their guides for exploring their leadership potential has meaningful benefits for the leadership coaches too. According to Leadership Fellow and third-year PhD student in the Chemistry program Frederico Pulvirenti, \u201cCoaching has taught me how to be more organized and how to view problems from a lot of different perspectives. I learned how to let a person open up and actively reflect on his or her potential by asking powerful questions, that stimulate but do not intimidate. I find myself capable of understanding and managing diversity better.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to growing coaches\u2019 self-awareness, the act of engaging with students on a deeper interpersonal level through coaching has proved to be rewarding in a number of other ways. Maggie Miller, an International Education Manager in Georgia Tech\u2019s Office of International Education, who served as a Leadership Fellow this year commends Leading Edge for giving her the opportunity to connect with undergraduate students. \u201cMy position is highly administrative, and I don\u2019t work directly with students. I loved seeing the growth of my coachees;\u0026nbsp;watching them gain confidence through carrying out\u0026nbsp;their leadership experiments was so rewarding and inspiring.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe major impact that Leading Edge has had on this year\u2019s coaches is validated by the number that have volunteered to return to the program next year. 26 (or over half) of this year\u2019s Leadership Fellows will continue coaching students over the 2016-2017 school year. The program has also attracted 44 new coaches (the greatest number of coaches Leading Edge has ever had), comprised of engaged graduate students, faculty, and staff from a diversity of programs and departments across the Georgia Tech community. So although another year is coming to a close, we look forward to next year and continuing to grow leadership at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead more about the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/leadership.gatech.edu\/content\/leadership-fellows\u0022\u003ELeadership Fellows program \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On April 7th, LEAD held its third annual Leadership Fellows Recognition Luncheon to recognize Leading Edge\u2019s 49 Leadership Fellows (coaches) for the dedication they have shown towards the program and the personal growth of their coachees"}],"uid":"27965","created_gmt":"2016-05-05 11:31:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:35","author":"Stacey Doremus","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"533381":{"id":"533381","type":"image","title":"Mica and Wes","body":null,"created":"1462561200","gmt_created":"2016-05-06 19:00:00","changed":"1475895314","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:14","alt":"Mica and Wes","file":{"fid":"215220","name":"micawes.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/micawes_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/micawes_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":400923,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/micawes_0.png?itok=g5-zLXj-"}},"534871":{"id":"534871","type":"image","title":"AY1516 Leadership Fellows","body":null,"created":"1462910400","gmt_created":"2016-05-10 20:00:00","changed":"1475895319","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:19","alt":"AY1516 Leadership Fellows","file":{"fid":"215595","name":"leadershipfellows_final.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/leadershipfellows_final.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/leadershipfellows_final.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1447616,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/leadershipfellows_final.jpg?itok=LUTQiP4d"}}},"media_ids":["533381","534871"],"groups":[{"id":"269161","name":"Leadership Education and Development"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"170255","name":"Coaches"},{"id":"3852","name":"coaching"},{"id":"21771","name":"LEAD"},{"id":"87491","name":"leadership fellows"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EContact Stacey Doremus at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stacey.doremus@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Estacey.doremus@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["stacey.doremus@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}