Break Away: Leadership For A Sound Mind And Body

You may have encountered land acknowledgements — formal statements that recognize the Indigenous people that originally lived on the land that we now occupy — but sometimes there’s not enough thought put into the words. In this episode, we interviewed two Indigenous voices within your U of M community: U-M Professor of Law and American Culture Matthew Fletcher as well as Heather King, Campus-as-La...

Mikeila McQueston (DMA Composition '26) Christine Taft (WMBA '25), participants of Sanger Leadership Center's Story Lab, speak to the importance of valuing the learning that comes from connections with others, regardless of how brief or unexpected those connections might be.

Leaders of Turn Up Turnout, the University's student-led voter engagement organization discuss the ways they work to sustain a campus culture of voting through peer-to-peer interaction. Maurielle Courtois, BA '25, Hillary Poudeu Tchokothe, BA '26, and Rose Reilly, BA '24 discuss their leadership and how they train, mentor, and encourage new leaders in civic engagement.

This interview was originally published on the Lead & Follow podcast, hosted by Sharna Fabiano, author of the book Lead & Follow: The Dance of Inspired Teamwork. The episode is a conversation about integrated leadership-followership education featuring Fatema Haque, Academic Program Manager & LEO Adjunct Lecturer at the Barger Leadership Institute, and Dorine Lawrence-Hughes, Assistant...

Students at the Barger Leadership Institute talk about the art of giving and receiving feedback. They focus specifically on giving feedback with social identities in mind, and how one can prepare themselves to receive feedback.

Yiying Lee, MBA '23, and Larissa Almeida, MBA '23, share stories developed at Sanger Leadership Center's Story Lab. In the podcast, Yiying and Larissa speak to the challenge and importance of choosing authenticity, finding the right mentors, and pushing away naysayers when navigating career decisions.

DeAnthony Foster, an experienced construction management professional, discusses with Christine and Josh how his time in the Michigan Community Scholars Program (MCSP) at the University of Michigan shaped his understanding and approach to leadership in his career. He shares an invaluable perspective on how leadership skills evolve, adapt, and mature over time, shaped by real-world experiences. Thi...

In this episode, we have the second part of a conversation with current and former staff members of Camp Michigania. The family camp owned and operated by the alumni association of the University of Michigan for over sixty years. In this conversation, the second collection of staff members discuss how to lead your peers in an environment where you work and live for an entire summer.

In today's episode we have part one of a conversation with current and former staff members of Camp Michigania, the family camp owned and operated by the alumni association of the University of Michigan for over sixty years. In this conversation, the staff discuss leading your peers in an environment where you work and live for an entire summer.

In this weeks episode, Mike Erwin a veteran and the co-founder and CEO of the Positivity Project, discusses how we can be better leaders by being better followers. Erwin explores the benefits of tough leadership, caring relationships, and leading from the back. These types of leadership have the ability to benefit everybody. He discusses how leadership is a personal and universal relationship. 

Justin Stoddard, The CEO and Founder of "Climbing the Mountain", discusses how we can build resiliency and how to overcome adversity. Stoddard, a veteran and now a professor at the United States Air Force academy, discusses with three students Eyda Gu, Ananya Mangla, and Saniya Shahid how to lead through example and lift up others around you. Using individual and universal experiences, S...

Storytelling can connect, inform and inspire. Storytelling can increase confidence in recruiting, presenting, and motivating teams and organizations. Storytelling can humanize and personalize workplace cultures. At Story Lab, students develop executive-level presence and communication skills through storytelling workshops and events. Powered by the Sanger Leadership Center, Story Lab focuses on te...

In this episode, two University of Michigan leadership educators, Fatema Haque and Danyelle Reynolds, talk about the differences between feminine and feminist leadership. While feminine leadership calls for inclusion but relies on traditional feminine traits and behaviors, feminist leadership that works to create equitable environments, upend sexist power structures, and expand limited understandi...

What is the legacy of leadership? How do leaders consider their legacy? This episode celebrates the Diversity Peer Educator program's 50th anniversary and legacy of social justice, student empowerment, and campus leadership with two former student leaders, Robert Wilson and Simon Rivers. Together, Robert and Simon reflect on their time as a Diversity Peer Educator and Minority Peer Advisor, th...

Storytelling can connect, inform and inspire. Storytelling can increase confidence in recruiting, presenting, and motivating teams and organizations. Storytelling can humanize and personalize workplace cultures. At Story Lab, students develop executive-level presence and communication skills through storytelling workshops and events. Powered by the Sanger Leadership Center, Story Lab focuses on te...

In this episode, hear from our podcast host, and current UMICH student-athlete, Gabby Wilson, and guests Coach Mike Hart, and former student-athlete, Danielle Rauch, for a conversation on servant leadership -- What is it? Why is it important in teams? And, How can we lead through service?

Join Izzy Beshouri and Cheyenne Chapman as they discuss “Leadership Connection”, a leadership program where participants get together with student leaders from different student organizations across the Michigan community. The two take us through the nuts and bolts of this unique opportunity.

Join Neika White, Aliya Hirji, and Michael Goldberg in a conversation about the benefits of LeaderShape, an ethics-based leadership development experience for University of Michigan students. The three showcase how the 5 day, non-stop self-discovery and learning experience changed the way they see and interact with leadership.

Learn about the Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships at U-M. We work with candidates for some of the world's most famous and prestigious awards. Leadership is one of the most common criteria for these awards. Learn about how applying for one of these awards helps candidates articulate their leadership stories. We will be joined by Xalma Palomino who just became U-M's 29th Truman Scholar...

Steve Bodei hosts a conversation with Askari Rushing, Karishma Collette, Krishna Han, Neeraja Aravamudan about how to be an inclusive leader. During this leadership series discussion, they explore what inclusive leadership looks like in practice, the qualities that define inclusive leadership, and how to cultivate this type of leadership. This episode was recorded as part of the Inclusive Leadersh...

Three Michigan alumna share their stories of success and how they have navigated Michigan and beyond as women in high ranking positions.

Part 2: Ram Mahalingam talks with Rebecca Irby who shares her background on how she discovered her life’s passion and purpose and then used her North Star to found and lead an international NGO that received Special Consultative Status with the United Nations. She offers guidance on how to help you find your North Star and learn how to use that as your guide throughout the rest of your time in sch...

To be an effective leader — at work, in the community, or in your personal life — you must be able to communicate with impact. Often this means telling stories that are meaningful to you and others, and doing so in the rich language and expressive style of a seasoned storyteller.  At Story Lab, students develop executive-level presence and communication skills through storytelling workshops a...

Ram Mahalingam talks with Rebecca Irby who shares her background on how she discovered her life’s passion and purpose and then used her North Star to found and lead an international NGO that received Special Consultative Status with the United Nations. She offers guidance on how to help you find your North Star and learn how to use that as your guide throughout the rest of your time in school and,...

Based on a counseling tool called "motivational interviewing", Emily Giovanili, Marsha Benz, and Christina Gerazounis discuss how to have productive and compassionate conversations. They share skills and techniques that you can use individually or with your team. "If you've been interested in building dynamic and thoughtful conversations within the organizations you join, with your friends, other...