Leading Out West Workshop
Leveraging Your Identity to Unleash Your Leadership Potential
March 29-31, 2024
FIND YOUR VOICE!
This first-of-its-kind program is designed for students in the Mountain West who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community, and is focused on building leadership skills, professional networks, and personal brands, the program is open to all undergraduate, graduate and recent graduate majors.
Montana can be a tough place to grow up for someone who identifies as LGBTQ, the Leading Out West Workshop is designed with these students and communities in mind.
The program is a leadership and network-building intensive program for a small cohort of college students. Industry leaders and business professionals will help instruct and facilitate.
While learning how to amplify strengths and personal leadership styles, students also will expand their network of business professionals and mentors who can share ideas and experiences.
IN THIS PROGRAM, YOU WILL...
- Develop your own purpose and personal brand
- Learn how to leverage your LGBTQIA+ background while building your leadership skills
- Begin to build a strong network of LGBTQIA+ peers and mentors
- Learn from LGBTQIA+ leaders at the top of their game
- Discover and refine your interpersonal skills to become a more authentic leader
- Strengthen nonverbal and verbal communication skills
- Develop new models and mindsets for innovation and personal leadership skills.
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MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDERS
"Joe Whittinghill and I both have deep Montana roots and we are both passionate about the state. We often speak about our experiences growing up in our respective hometowns and of the unique qualities that make up Montanans. This program started as an idea over dinner in Seattle. We were speaking about how few resources we had growing up LGBTQIA+ in Montana and about the resources that are available to young Montanan’s today. From that meeting and from subsequent conversations with the University of Montana, we began to create this program which is a combination of our own experiences and of those of our network. At the end of these few days, our objective is for participants to start thinking, not about how to have a seat at the table, but how they build their own table and invite others in to have a seat at it." - Bob Boyce