Student Leadership Development Day

STUDENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT DAY!

Wednesday, September 30th.

Exciting workshops and sessions running all day on both NJ campuses, designed to help you develop your leadership skills and set you up for success in campus organizations and in your careers. We’ll be adding more information here, so check back soon for a recommended (but not required) registration form, the day’s full schedule, and more detail on each session/presenters.

Event Info
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The day will be structured like a mini-conference that will provide students with leadership workshops and interactive sessions provided by internal partners, with 3 or so concurrent sessions running in adjacent rooms in 3 time slots mid-morning through early afternoon (10am, 11:15, 12:30), with a final 2pm community-wide speaker event (“a conversation on leadership” with Knights Women’s Basketball Coach – and mid-majors coaching legend – Stephanie Gaitley and Provost Ben Rifkin) as the finale.

The vision for the day is (a) to help develop the leadership skills of our students, and (b) bring together all of the awesome student programming we do at FDU on the same day so we can showcase to the students all we do while building a larger audience for our programming.

Sessions include:

  • Confident communication
  • How to get a club leadership position
  • Power of persuasion
  • Leading in the AI age
  • Starting a club on campus
  • Acting and improv training games!
  • Leadership skills through volunteering
  • Power and influence “werewolf” game
  • Empathy skills
  • Professionalism
  • Leading in class teams
  • Finding your why
  • Leading without burning out
  • Mental health training
  • Leading in the classroom
  • Lessons from FDU team captains
  • …and more

FDU Partner organizations taking part in the day include:

  •  Career Development
  • Silberman College of Business
  • University Library
  • University Honors
  • D1 Knights Athletics
  • First-Generation Scholars
  • Academic Support Center
  • Center for Empathy Research and Training
  • Center for Character Development
  • Women in Business Club
  • Student Health Services
  • … and more