When you lead, you set an example. And when you set an example, you're positively influencing the lives of others. The Office of Leadership & Learning has many leadership opportunities available. The Leadership Lecture Series offers leadership-focused programs throughout each semester to give students the opportunity to build on current leadership skills. Click on the links below to review the topics and register for individual workshops or to register your entire organization for a workshop.
Start your leadership journey, sign up for the Leadership Lecture Series. Students who complete three or more sessions in a semester receive a Leadership Certificate and Medal for graduation.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 12:00 PM
Rhonda Glover Reese, Ph.D. |The Law Enforcement Coach/Mentor| The Rhonda M. Glover Group LLC
This session will focus on the strength and challenges of a non-traditional leader. We will feature situations of women leading in industries that are majority males, as well as minorities at the helm as one of the first, etc.
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 @ 12:00 PM
This session is about the basics of getting your finance in order.
Bruce L. Rubin, PhD, has been a member of the Finance Department at Old Dominion University since 1981. He has served as chairman of the Finance Department, interim dean of the College of Business and Public Administration and is current director of the Economics Club of Hampton Roads and the director of the Insurance and Financial Services Center. Rubin helped design the original financial planning program and has taught for the program since its beginning in 1983. Rubin received his bachelor's degree from New York University, and his master's and doctorate from Case Western Reserve University. He was previously on the faculty of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 12:00 PM
Andrew H. Cohen Lecturer/Presenter/Bloomberg Expert Old Dominion University
Strome College of Business Constant Hall Room 2002 757-683-7004
Andrew Cohen offers some practical advice about investing in the stock market: including avoiding some of the mistakes that I made (ie. Madoff). He will show you how to log in to Bloomberg and how to leverage the knowledge of Bloomberg to enhance your ODU education and future job prospects. You will engage with some fun and informative Bloomberg screens. At the end of this interactive session you will also have a chance for some questions and answers.
You will get more on Bloomberg certification: Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) is an 8 hour self-paced e-learning course that provides a visual introduction to the financial markets. BMC consists of 4 modules - Economics, Currencies, Fixed Income and Equities - woven together from Bloomberg data, news, analytics and television. By taking BMC, learners familiarize themselves with the industry standard service through four heavily interconnected modules. The program is self-paced, and upon completion students will receive their certificate of completion which we encourage you to add to resumes.
Expertise: Stock and Options Valuation and Trading, Investing, Idea Generation, and Portfolio Creation by leveraging the power of Bloomberg terminals.
Background: MBA, NYU's Stern School of Business. Extensive Wall Street background as a Manager, Market Maker and Trader; Goldman, Sachs & Bernard Madoff, Numerous public speaking presentations including CNBC's Power Lunch, and NPR radio broadcasts "Hear Say" and "With Good Reason" Bloomberg Certified in all segments.
Andrew Cohen started his Wall Street Career at the age of 21 at Goldman, Sachs & Co. operations training program where he learned all the various aspects of Wall Street.
While taking evening classes to attain his MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business, He quickly worked his way up to become a manager in Foreign Exchange
Operations responsible for over 30 employees.
After completing his MBA, Andrew decided to become an equity trader and was initially hired to work directly for Bernie Madoff's son, Andy Madoff. After seeing Andrew's great talent as a trader, Andrew was given his own account to trade and quickly became the most profitable trader on Madoff's trading floor (which was the legitimate side of his business). Andrew was so successful as a trader, he was able to retire after 8 years as a trader at the ripe old age of 35!
Andrew has been a featured guest on CNBC's Power Lunch and has done many other Public Speaking engagements, including one of the keynote speakers at the Williamsburg Fraud Conference and for Sentara Health Care in 2013, and the Featured Speaker for the YAD talks in 2014. He has also been featured on the front cover of the Virginia Pilot and as a special guest speaker on NPR's "Hearsay" and "With Good Reason" and has been a featured speaker for Bloomberg's first Educational Symposium in Sydney Australia as well Bloomberg's Educational Symposium in NYC in June of 2016.
Now Andrew is utilizing his unique and extensive Wall Street and Public Speaking Experience, as well as his expertise using Bloomberg Terminals to help students learn the basics of Wall Street through his unique class he created, "Wall Street 101." He is also the Manager of "The Gregory A. Lumsden Trading Room and Research Lab" at O.D.U. where he is helping faculty utilize Bloomberg Terminals to enhance their classes, and teaching students how utilize Bloomberg Terminals to enhance their education. Andrew also teaches an advanced Option's trading class for undergraduates and M.B.A. students and has created an additional new class for MBA students: "Investing in the Stock Market using the Power of Bloomberg."
Andrew won the "University Distinguished Teacher Award" for 2016-2017, been selected as a 2017 "Entsminger Fellow" and also won the "Outstanding Non-Tenured Faculty Award" for 2014-2015 at O.D.U.
At the end of this session, you will get more information on completing your free Trading certificate.
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 @ 12:00 PM
This session is facilitated by Krystal Kinloch-Taylor
Session Summary:
Participants will discover tangible ways to lead with empathy. Influential leaders inspire, serve, and empathize. While our shared experiences differ, we can connect and offer oversight in a meaningful way.
Biography: Kristal Kinloch-Taylor is the Educational Program Developer for the Center for Faculty Development at ODU. Kristal earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the City University of Queens College. She earned two Master's Degrees, one in Education and the second in Journalism, from Regent University. Kristal is currently enrolled in Mississippi State University's Doctor of Philosophy in Instructional System and Workforce Development program.
Kristal has worked as an administrator in higher education for over a decade. Some of the positions she has held at various universities include serving as the Assistant Director of Student Support at Regent University, Director of Enrollment Management & Military Affairs at Hampton University. Prior to joining the Center for Faculty Development, Kristal served as the Director of Old Dominion University's Military Connection Center supporting the success of military-affiliated students.
Kristal brings insight from her 12 years of experience as an adjunct instructor at Bryant & Stratton College, Tidewater Community College, and Hampton University along with skills acquired serving as an Instructional Designer with North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University to her role as the Educational Program Developer.
Learning Objectives: After participating in this session, students will be able to:
- Define empathy and leadership
- Identify empathetic leadership practices
- Apply empathetic leadership practices to the workplace
- Construct an empathetic leadership framework
Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 @ 12:00 PM
This session is facilitated by Randall, Reneldo N.
Great leaders must be able to give and receive feedback constructively. Yet, giving and receiving feedback remains one of the most elusive skills for leaders to acquire, successfully implement, and assess. As a result, it can cause leaders a great deal of anxiety disrupting productivity, team synergy, and overall team culture.
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