Leadership Skills for the 21st Century (LDR 4130) 

Course Designer and Lead Faculty

Modality: Web
Designation: High Impact Practice - Integrative Experience

Inspired by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, this one-of-a-kind course blends humor, creativity, and real-world application to help you build the leadership skills today’s world demands. Each week, you’ll try out a practical leadership skill—from managing conflict to building trust—and reflect on what actually works in your life, your job, or your community. You’ll grow your emotional intelligence, expand your communication toolkit, and develop confidence through experience, not just theory. With weekly "Ford’s Field Guides," a Deep Thought Leadership Journal, and a Book Club based on Simon Sinek’s Leaders Eat Last, this course turns leadership into a hands-on adventure. 

Leadership Theories and Concepts (LDR 4115) 

Course Designer and Lead Faculty

Modality: Web
Designation: High Impact Practice - Integrative Experience
Honors: Earned Quality badge

This isn't your typical theories course. Sure, you’ll dive deep into the major leadership approaches—traits, skills, behavior, situational, and beyond—but you’ll also meme them, debate them, and apply them to your life. Assignments include creating infographics based on leaders you observe, choosing leadership styles for navigating a zombie apocalypse, and a mid-semester meme war.  If you’ve ever wondered why some leaders thrive and others flop, this course will help you figure it out. Blending intellectual challenge with playfulness and purpose, you'll leave with a clearer view of leadership, and of yourself. 

Contemporary Issues in Leadership (LDR 3115) 

Faculty

Modality: Web
Designation: High Impact Practice - Service-Learning, NACE Competency Course
Honors: Earned Quality badge

Why just study leadership when you can live it? In this experiential course, the community becomes your classroom. You'll explore core leadership concepts like the 7Cs of social change, empathy, and civic engagement, then immediately put them into practice through a meaningful service-learning project of your choosing. You'll grow your self-awareness, refine your unique leadership style, and create positive change in your community. Come ready to reflect, connect, and lead with purpose.

Past Courses

University of Central Florida:

Senior Seminar (IDS 4939)

Modality: Web

Cornerstone Experience in Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS 3933) 

Modality: Web, Mixed Mode

Capstone Experience in Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS 4934) 

Modality: Web, Mixed Mode

Child and Adolescent Development for Educators (EDF 2130) 

Modality: Web

Career Planning (MHS 2330) 

Modality: Face-to-Face

Learning Through Experience (IDS 3949) 

Modality: Web 

Leadership Through Service: An Advanced Leadership Experience (EGN 2920) 

Modality: Face-to-Face

Capstone Experience for LEAD Scholars (HSC 2921) 

Modality: Face-to-Face

Seminole State College:

College Success (SLS 1101) 

Modality: Face-to-Face