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Leadership for a Changing World

At CU Boulder, we’re shaping tomorrow’s leaders to address the most pressing and complex professional and global issues.

Our affiliatedleadership programs are designed to hone your skills to better understand yourself and others, improve your communication, sharpen your critical thinking, and view challenging issues through a different lens.

From academic courses to experiential learning and co-curricular leader development programming, many of our programs provide a certificate or minor in leadership. No matter where your education or career may take you,if you have an interest in being a better leader—a better you—CU Boulder has you covered.

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"As Chancellor, my top imperative for the university is to shape tomorrow’s leaders. While participating in a leader development program is not required to be a leader, I feel strongly that our dedicated leadership education and experiences uniquely position our graduates to positively impact humanity."

- Philip DiStefano,Chancellor & Newton Chair in Leadership

Our Programs Make a Difference in Your Leadership Development

Leadership Studies Minor Students have a 97.6% graduation rate

(14% above non-leadership students)

58% of organizations top priority is closing leadership skill gaps

Students report a greater sense of inclusivity in leadership classrooms

(over 16% higher then the greater CU campus)

Highlighted Programs

Presidents Leadership Class
Leadership Studies Minor

“The courage to be vulnerable is not about winning or losing, it’s about the courage to show up when you can’t predict or control the outcome.”

-Brene Brown

"I shall, when the time comes, try to do right, in view of all the lights then before me."

-Abraham Lincoln

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

-Les Brown

"Bad leaders care about who’s right. Good leaders care about what’s right.”

-Simon Sinek