| LETTER FROM THE DEANS
Welcome to the Center for Integrative Leadership.
At the Center for Integrative Leadership at the University of Minnesota, leaders from diverse disciplines examine and develop new models and methods for approaching some of the most pressing, complex global challenges of our time—world hunger, global warming, free trade, disease prevention, equitable distribution of wealth, and international terrorism.
Integrative leadership identifies common ground between sectors, while it leverages the differences to ably move organizations, communities, and societies forward. The Center for Integrative Leadership is dedicated to advancing leadership that bridges styles, cultures, genders, functions, levels, sectors, and countries to solve seemingly intractable group, organizational, and societal problems. The center is a place for scholars, practitioners, and students to develop new understandings of how to lead across boundaries for the common good.
The center is unique—the only one in the world dedicated to the study, teaching, and deployment of integrative leadership. The oversight of this University-wide initiative is shared by the Carlson School of Management and the Hubert. H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. The Center for Integrative Leadership supports multidisciplinary leadership research, formal classroom instruction, public education, and leadership development within the University and the community.
Unique global, national, regional, and local challenges face us in the twenty-first century, a time of increased interconnection and rapid change. At the Center for Integrative Leadership, we work to meet these challenges and to leave the world a better place.
Sincerely,
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