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Hoffman Leadership Path Continues At Harvard
Graduate Students Explore the Inner Side of Leadership
For three consecutive years, a diverse group of Harvard Graduate
students have participated in the Hoffman Leadership Path, with
outstanding results.
In 2005, Harvard’s world-renowned Kennedy School of Government
(KSG), in conjunction with U.S. News & World Report, conducted
a study that concluded that the majority of today’s leaders
are poised to work well within the system, rather than being poised
to exceptionally lead the system for the common good.
KSG’s study isolated several qualities, including authenticity,
vision, passion, and leadership from-the-heart, as being the essence
of extraordinary leadership – all qualities of emotion and
spirit not amenable to an ordinary university curriculum.
These qualities, collectively called the “inner side of leadership,”
were first addressed in 2006, when 40 graduate students from Harvard’s
Center for Public Leadership (CPL) participated in the Hoffman Leadership
Path, the eight-day Hoffman Process followed by five Leadership
Coaching sessions with their Process teachers.
The Leadership Path is designed to transform unproductive modes
of thought and behavior into personal and professional excellence.
It has been said that leadership cannot be taught, but it can be
learned. The Leadership Path is designed to move participants into
the heart and soul of their intrinsic leadership capabilities where
this precious self-knowledge becomes available.
Students who participated in the Leadership Path reported that it
greatly augmented their academic experience at Harvard, and that
it will significantly improve their leadership contribution and
their personal lives. Due to the popularity and success of the program
at CPL, members of other professional schools at Harvard who function
in the public service aspect of their profession have expressed
interest in participating in it.
The majority of the cost of the Leadership Path at Harvard was
made possible through generous annual donations from Steve and Joan
Belkin, who are members of the Hoffman Institute Board of Directors.
Mr. Belkin, a Harvard Business School graduate, is the founder and
chairman of Trans National Group. Other major funders of the Leadership
Path at Harvard are Ken and Margie Blanchard, John Carlson, George
Goldsmith, Jay Hagenbuch, Bob Hernreich, Adam and Jenny Keller,
Paul and Kathie Mazonson, David and Janet McCue Carol Sawyer Parks,
Alan and Susan Solomont, Mac Van Wielingen.
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