HD573 Creative Leadership Development (2 cr.)

This course addresses the role of human development, the arts, and the creative process for enhancing leadership in intrapersonal, community, and organizational contexts. The course draws upon brain-compatible learning research. This course explores students’ internal development and creative leadership competencies such as attention, presence, and collaborative inquiry, and applies these competencies to complex challenges.

Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Identify six creative leadership competencies as defined by researchers and faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership.
2. Assess their own individual creative leadership strengths and human development needs well enough to design an individual vision statement.
3. Explain how creative processes and arts-based learning can be used to develop essential qualities of personal leadership such as comfort with ambiguity, flexible thinking, risk taking, and presence.
4. Apply creative leadership principles and competencies to complex challenges.
5. Synthesize their understanding into a creative presentation.