Leadership development program offered through Fort Lewis College and Alpine Leadership

Dr. Steve Elias, dean of the School of Business Administration, has teamed up with Mark Haeussler, CEO of Alpine Leadership, to offer the Executive Leader Development Program October 1-4 at Fort Lewis College. The three-and-a-half-day workshop will guide participants toward becoming strategic leaders of people and initiatives within their respective agencies.

“Participants will leave with an action plan to be able to implement what they learned to be better leaders,” says Elias. “Anyone in the business community, at government agencies, or in education, you name it, would benefit.” 

Participants will learn key competencies to support their abilities to move initiatives into action with greater effectiveness and ease. This interactive course is appropriate for any executive (C-level, VP, director), board of directors, government executives, chief administrators, education leaders, and those who aspire to these roles as their next career placement.

“All the instruction is from experts who have been doing this for years and have developed a reputation for doing a great job,” says Elias.

Alpine Leadership has been in Fortune 50 boardrooms, with teams from 5 to 250, serving diverse clientele in educational services, financial services, professional firms, medicine, hospitality, and automotive industries.

“Alpine Leadership works nationwide and historically we’ve gone into organizations to create custom leadership programs,” says Haeussler. “Between my own work and knowledge of leadership development and Steve’s as a professor, as well as dean, we thought could connect those dots and do something really meaningful.”

Participants will have one-on-one calls with Haeussler before the workshop, to establish goals for the program, and after, to get any follow-up support for implementation.

“Steve is very pragmatic and so am I. We try to teach people in a number of ways so that leaders can help themselves and be genuine,” says Haeussler. “Steve and I are aligned in that we both want to support individuals to be better leaders. It won’t be ‘Mark and Steve: How you can do it our way.’”

Both Haeussler and Elias believe the collaboration between Alpine and SOBA has greater community impact and they have ambitions for Durango becoming a hub for professional development. They see themselves as part of the broader community to bring people to town, have larger corporations send in their leaders, fill up hotels, and visit campus. 

“It’s a great opportunity to partner up and have an impact on the community and beyond,” says Elias. “This will be a good way for SOBA to interact with the community off campus, with folks who may have not visited otherwise, and the revenue generated will trickle down to have a direct positive effect on students.”

Registration and information for the program is available at www.alpineleadership.co/leadership-course/the-engaging-executive-program/. On November 6, Alpine Leadership will be back at FLC with McGhee Productivity Solutions for a one-day course on optimizing use of Microsoft Outlook. Information for that course is at http://www.alpineleadership.co/leadership-course/take-back-your-life/.