Leadership Fellows

William P. Lauder Wharton Leadership Fellows enthusiastically take up key positions on a team responsible for providing every first-year MBA student the opportunity to enhance his or her leadership potential. Values core to the program are trust, curiosity, optimism, diplomacy, service, teamwork and development of self and others. Leadership Fellows (LFs) are service-oriented and highly committed students that learn concrete leadership strategies, apply those learnings to support the development of first-year Learning Teams, and habitually reflect on how they can improve as students of leadership.

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William P. Lauder Leadership Fellows Symposia —

The Leadership Fellows program is built on the philosophy that great leaders are, above all, coaches and mentors who dedicate themselves to teaching others to reach their full potential. William P. Lauder W’83 models this belief through the Leadership Fellows Symposia, a forum where William shares practical insights and principles of leadership that LFs can apply to their work with the Wharton MBA first year Learning Teams. Through fireside chats and small-group discussions, William encourages LFs to be lifelong learners and continuously pass on their knowledge to others.

Following the example of his popular Wharton course – MGMT896: Decision Making in the Leadership Chair – William brings prominent guest speakers to the Symposia to share their advice and firsthand experiences. Michael O’Hare, Executive Vice President and Global HR Officer of The Estée Lauder Companies, recently spoke to the Leadership Fellows about leading large organizations through transformations at a global scale. Michael’s advice to the students: One-on-one meetings are almost always the most effective way to gather intel about a team’s performance. William agreed: “It doesn’t matter if you’re the CEO or a junior manager – leaders at every level of the organization have to make time for regular touchpoints with people.”