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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 affiliated leadership 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.

#HowCUBuffsLead

"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."

- Chancellor and Newton Chair Philip DiStefano

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

Students from PLC posing in front of Norlin Library

Presidents Leadership Class

SCRIPPS

SCRIPPS Leadership & Career Development Program

Leadership minor students participating in class

Leadership Studies Minor

“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”

– Brené Brown

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” 

– Abraham Lincoln

“Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”

– Les Brown

“There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it."

– Simon Sinek

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The Center for Leadership acknowledges that the University sits upon land within the territories of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho peoples. Further, we acknowledge that 48 contemporary tribal nations are historically tied to the lands that make up the state of Colorado.

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