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Arbuckle Leadership Fellows Program

The Arbuckle Leadership Fellows is a new program at the GSB. Named in honor of former business school dean, Ernest Arbuckle, the program is a two-quarter laboratory course where second-year MBA students design and implement the leadership lab portion of the new Strategic Leadership Course for first-year MBA students. Fellows work in teams developing the influence, presentation, facilitation, coaching and mentoring skills essential to run labs effectively. Teams are responsible for the learning experience of one section and each Fellow is specifically assigned a group of eight students.

The Leadership Fellow Laboratory exists for two specific purposes:

  1. To offer a challenging opportunity for selected students to develop their interpersonal skills: developing, motivating and influencing. These skills prove critical to professional advancement and leadership effectiveness. Leadership Fellow Lab students (Fellows) receive group and individual coaching in mastering the interpersonal skills that will maximize their future success.
  2. To train Leadership Fellows to deliver programming of the highest possible quality to each incoming class of MBA students.

Experiential in nature, the course contains two distinct components:

Development: Spring Quarter

In preparation for facilitating the Strategic Leadership Laboratories (SLL) in Autumn Quarter, Leadership Fellows spend the preceding Spring Quarter working with Leadership Coaches and CLDR faculty to master the influencing, presenting, facilitating, coaching, and mentoring skills essential to run the SLL program effectively.

During Spring Quarter, Fellows practice delivery by presenting specialty material to a peer audience of GSB and other Stanford graduate/professional school students.

Implementations: Autumn Quarter

The overarching mission of the course is to deliver an outstanding development program (the SLL program) in Autumn Quarter for all the incoming first-year MBA students. Each Leadership Fellow team is responsible for the learning experience of one section of 64 students. The Implementation phase will occur as part of first-year’s required Core courses, ending with the successful recruitment of students to run the following year’s SLL program.