Leveraging Leadership for Organizational Success

As a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico is a critical site for exploring public service leadership challenges and opportunities in a contemporary colonial context. This course explores leveraging leadership for resilience and success during fiscal, environmental, and social crises. This seven-day trip will require site visits with leaders in the nonprofit, philanthropic, and public sectors at organizations that provide opportunities for real-time perspective-taking and knowledge exchanges. Through a combination of expert-led lectures, site visits, and interactive activities, students will gain invaluable insights into Puerto Rico’s social sector leadership landscape, exploring how leaders on the island grapple with ongoing crises and relating those lessons learned to New York City, home to a historic diaspora of Puerto Rican people and cultural and philanthropic institutions.