Join us this fall for a workshop series that will engage and challenge you to explore and expand your leadership skills and strategies.

Extended Learning, in partnership with the Lotus Leadership Institute, is proud to present this unique workshop series. Learn to identify the aspects that impede your leadership and own the strengths that contribute to your personal and professional success. The interactive workshop series will integrate applied and theoretical perspectives on leadership while giving you specific strategies for leading others, addressing the most complex challenges, and advancing your career.

This three-session program will cover topic areas such as:

• Emotional Intelligence, Self- Awareness, and Leadership Authenticity

• Leadership, Authority, and Power: Self and Role

• Personal and Development: Moving On and Moving Up

This is an interactive workshop series. You will have take-home activities and numerous opportunities to work in pairs and small groups to increase your own and others’ accountability. Additional readings and information on a variety of topics will also be assigned.

For detailed session descriptions, please see reverse.

To register or for additional information, visit www.csusm.edu/el/womensleadership

Special program

Women and leaderShip educational SerieS

PROGRAM LOGISTICSProgram Leader: Lorri L. Sulpizio, PhD, Lotus Leadership Institute Dates: Fridays, Oct. 7, 21 & Nov. 4, 2011 Time: 8-11 amLocation: CSUSM Campus Fee: $499

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Emotional Intelligence, Self-Awareness, and Leadership Authenticity

Our effectiveness as leaders depends not only on what we do and how we do it, but also on the inner place from where we operate.

In this initial session, you will explore your own leadership style and practice and begin to identify your leadership capability. By understanding and increasing this self-awareness, you will improve your ability to act authentically and as a result better develop and lead others. We will discuss emotional intelligence and how you can use your own and others’ emotional intelligence as a tool for effective leadership.

Leadership, Authority, and Power: Self and Role

Are you leading anyone? Can you lead anyone?

Many people hold a role of authority yet struggle with the exercise of leadership. Often, authority roles are challenging for women when they are faced with complex power dynamics. Women tend to use their power in the service of others, and are not as comfortable using power over others. This is often a direct conflict with typical business standards. While authority roles provide opportunities for leadership, they do not guarantee that a person is an effective leader. In this session, you will explore your own role of authority what behaviors result in effective leadership.

Personal and Professional Development: Moving On and Moving Up

We often walk for a while down a path, not realizing we are going the wrong the way, not knowing how to reach our destination.

In this final session you will explore the topics of leadership development and personal and professional advancement. We will discuss barriers to career advancement and personal fulfillment and you will begin to develop strategies for creating a vision and accomplishing your own professional development goals.

About the Program Leader:

Lorri Sulpizio, PhD, is the Chief Executive Partner for the Lotus Leadership Institute. She has worked with leadership development, gender, and authority for over 10 years in an applied setting and within an academic environment – teaching and conducting research. Sulpizio has spent several years assisting both individuals and groups work toward purpose and developing their capacity for leadership as they meet the demands and manage the tensions of organizational life. Most recently, she has focused her efforts on group relations and systems theory as a way to reframe individual experiences with authority and improve people’s capacity for exercising leadership. In her recent research, on the topic of women in transition to a new position of authority, she has developed a model of authority that reflects the experience of women in transition. Lorri has taught Leadership and Business courses at the University of San Diego and Cal State San Marcos and has been an adjunct faculty at several colleges and universities in San Diego.

To register or for additional information, visit www.csusm.edu/el/womensleadership