Kansas Leadership Center

How often have you done the work, just so you could check off the box at the end of the day? You knew the task was better suited for others, but they weren’t doing it. Hosted by Kansas Leadership Center president & CEO Ed O’Malley, this conference call provides new insight in helping identify the circumstances and characteristics of situations that call for divvying up the duty.

Act Experimentally. Hosted by Kansas Leadership Center president and CEO Ed O’Malley, this call features a conversation designed to help further your understanding of the importance of acting experimentally when exercising leadership.

Take the Temperature. Hosted by Kansas Leadership Center president and CEO Ed O'Malley, this call features a conversation designed to help further your understanding of how to take the temperature when diagnosing the situation to exercise leadership.

Energizing Others requires an ability to inspire a collective purpose when exercising leadership. No special guest just alums asking questions and sharing stories about how to "inspire a collective purpose." Find out what it means to inspire a collective purpose and how KLC faculty, staff and alumni are putting this key leadership behavior into action in civic life.

Leadership is Risky. Hosted by Kansas Leadership Center president and CEO Ed O'Malley, this call features a conversation designed to help further your understanding of how to navigate the risk associated with exercising leadership.

Intervening Skillfully when exercising leadership requires an ability to make conscious choices. No special guest just alums asking questions and sharing stories about how to "make conscious choices." Find out what it means to make conscious choices and how KLC faculty, staff and alumni are putting this key leadership behavior into action in civic life.

Start Where They Are in relation to the audience you're trying to influence. Energizing Others requires an ability to start where they are. No special guest, just alums asking questions and sharing stories about how to "start where they are." Find out what it means to start where they are and how faculty, staff and KLC alumni are putting this key leadership principle into action in civic life.

Hold To Purpose A significant component of Intervening Skillfully is an ability to hold to purpose.  No special guest, just alums asking questions and sharing stories about how to "hold to purpose."

A significant component of Energizing Others is an ability to engage unusual voices.  Success in any endeavor requires involvement from all stakeholders. No special guest: Just alums asking questions and sharing stories about how to "engage unusual voices."  Find out what it means to engage unusual voices and how KLC faculty, staff and alums are putting this key leadership behavior into action in civic life.

No special guest: Just alums asking questions and sharing stories about how to “take care of yourself.” Find out what it means to take care of yourself and how KLC faculty, staff and alums are putting this key leadership behavior into action in civic life.

Join Jeff Usher, Program Officer at the Kansas Health Foundation; Ed O’Malley, President and CEO of the KLC; and your fellow KLC alumni as we discuss the impact of civic leadership on the long-term health of Kansas communities. Together, KLC alumni will explore questions such as: What does leadership have to do with healthy communities? How might you identify the stakeholders in your community, engage diverse groups and foster comprehensive partnerships? What does it mean to explore tough, systemic interpretations about encouraging healthy behaviors in your community? Usher will also discuss KHF's new, expanded Healthy Communities Initiative request for proposal (RFP). Through this RFP, the Kansas Health Foundation is seeking to support communities as they facilitate policy, practice and environmental changes that will help Kansans make healthy choices such as being more physically active, eating nutritious foods and not using tobacco products.

On the Balcony - Leadership & Non-Profits - How non-profits can foster more civic change. Join Heather McLeod Grant, co-author of the best-selling Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits for an "On The Balcony" call. Grounded in several years of research, Forces for Good illuminates practices that "can be applied by any organization seeking to make a difference in the world."

Join Duke Divinity School's senior strategist and professor of theology L. Gregory Jones, KLC President and CEO Ed O'Malley and fellow KLC Alumni for an On The Balcony call to discuss the intersection of leadership and faith. Dr. Jones' vast experience as a United Methodist pastor, Senior Strategist for Leadership Education and Dean of the Duke Divinity School will catalyze the conversation.

Have you ever noticed how church committees, school boards and city projects often engage the same people, who quickly become burdened with all the work? Join fellow alumni for an “On the Balcony” conversation to learn about “giving the work back.”

What makes leadership hard in political life? How do constituents react when politicians exercise leadership? What can we do to encourage more acts of leadership from politicians? John Carlin is currently a visiting professor/executive in residence at Kansas State University in the School of Leadership Studies. He teaches a masters level class in executive leadership and an undergraduate class in practical politics. He also currently chairs the board for the Kansas Bioscience Authority. Carlin had returned to his home state of Kansas after serving ten years as Archivist of the United States, being appointed by President Clinton in 1995. He served two four year terms as Governor of Kansas leaving office in January of 1987. He was chairman of the National Governors Association 1984-85. After leaving public office he taught at Wichita State University, was involved in two small business ventures, and traveled internationally on behalf of Kansas businesses. Prior to being Governor, he served four terms in the Kansas House of Representatives, the last term as Speaker of the House.