Module #6

Dates: April 18-19, 2013

Coaching and Leadership Lessons from the Gettysburg Battlefield

This program day allows participants to learn the leadership and coaching lessons from the Battle of Gettysburg. Walking the battlefield with experts on the battle and on coaching, we will experience the challenges the leaders faced and consider the coaching implications. The Battle of Gettysburg offers a rich set of characters, personalities, decisions and examples of organizations that resonate today. This experience will provide the opportunity for coaches to think differently about individual and organizational challenges. Note: This program day will begin early and end late. We will walk the battlefield during the day and debrief the experience over dinner in the Gettysburg area.

• Experience the challenges faced by historic leaders by walking in their footsteps
• Look at these historic leaders through the coaching lens: leadership style; derailers; decision-making; biases; their stories; stages of adult development; how they led teams, etc.
• Solidify sense of community and bonding among the coaches
• Share new self-insights and commitments to “being” a coach

Faculty

Susan Boardman
Leadership Program Manager
Gettysburg Foundation

Integration of Program Learning

On this final program day we will debrief on the lessons of Gettysburg from the previous day, then integrate the learning from all six programs in a structured, actionable format. We will solidify plans for alumni activities.

Faculty

Dr. Joyce Russell
Distinguished Tyser Teaching Fellow and Senior Executive Education Fellow
Robert H. Smith School of Business

Dr. Russell is a licensed Industrial and Organizational Psychologist and has over 25 years of experience consulting with both private and public sector organizations. Her expertise is primarily in the areas of leadership development, negotiation tactics, executive coaching, and career development. She is the Director of the Executive Coaching and Leadership Development Program and a Ralph J. Tyser Distinguished Teaching Fellow in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Since joining the UM faculty, she has consistently been honored for being one of the Outstanding Teachers.

She developed the Executive Coaching Program for the EMBA program at The University of Maryland and at The University of Tennessee. As the Director of both Coaching programs, she has provided coaching for hundreds of executives as well as selected and trained numerous executive coaches. Dr. Russell writes a weekly Career Coach column for The Washington Post and a monthly online chat with readers of her column, and can often be seen on Maryland Public Television offering her insights on negotiations and leadership development.

Dr. Russell has published over 50 articles, books, or book chapters and has presented her research at national and regional conferences. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Industrial & Organizational Psychology from The University of Akron, Ohio and her B.A. degree in Psychology from Loyola College in Maryland.