Greetings Lori from beautiful fall Ann Arbor.
Here at Ross, we have an embedded leadership development program that runs concurrently with our academic program and is provided to all students and is delivered while they are on campus for once a month residencies. We have stopped labeling them as optional and have seen much greater engagement with our students. We have a LDP Lead who sets the strategy and manages coaches and a coordinator who schedules programming, team coaching (provided each term) and 1:1 coaching for up to 10 sessions. We source our coached through our Executive Education dept. that has coaching as a component of some of their offerings which is great since they are already in the school's system. We have a dedicated Career Coach for each of our cohorts (1st & 2nd year) in Ann Arbor (1) and Los Angeles (1). We have been able to develop Career Coaching into an additional asset of the program. I hope this helps and let me know if you have any questions.
Donna Humphrey-Delosh
Managing Director/Former Career Coach
Michgian Ross School of Business
Ann Arbor, MI | Los Angeles, CA
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Donna Humphrey-DeLosh
Senior Associate Director, EMBA Career Advancement
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 09/17/24 03:47 PM
From: Lori Osborn
Subject: EMBA Leadership Coaching Programs
Greetings from Texas!
I hope the new school year is off to a great start for everyone. I'm reaching out to learn more about leadership coaching programs you might offer to students. Specifically, I'm interested in understanding how these programs are structured. Are they managed through the career office, or another department? Are they required? And are there specific eligibility criteria for students?
To give you some context, we currently provide leadership coaching to a select group of EMBA students through an application process. We collaborate with a certified IFC coach who generously donates his time. Typically, he works with five students each year, with each student having one-hour monthly sessions over an eight-month period. Currently, I manage the applications and set up the schedule (the coach sends out invites once schedules have been set).
We have a faculty member who is currently pursuing coaching certification and is interested in starting a new coaching program. However, we're facing resource constraints as our career center, which manages the current EMBA coaching program, is unable to support an additional program. I'd love to learn how other schools manage similar situations and explore potential strategies to integrate this new coaching opportunity without overburdening our staff.
Thank you in advance for any insights or advice you can provide.
Sincerely,
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Lori Osborn
Career Coach
University of Houston
Houston TX United States
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