Management as a Calling

Management as a Calling --- This course is a series of immersive retreat experiences designed to help you look deep inside yourself to discern your calling, moving away from the simple pursuit of a career for private personal gain and towards a vocation that is based on a higher and more internally derived purpose about leading commerce and serving society. Understanding purpose requires discernment to connect your career to living a life, and not just earning a living. This program will help you examine your idea of what kind of leader you want to be, what kind of career you want to have, and what kind of legacy you want to leave. The structure of this program includes two remote retreats for guided self-examination and discernment based on four components: (1) readings, (2) guided lectures and exercises, (3) peer mentoring and feedback, and (4) periods of self-reflection. The final outputs will be your Personal Mission Statement and Letter to Your Future Self. This course is recommended for students in their final year (though not required), is capped at 45 slots and permission to register will be granted based on a competitive application process. This course is made possible by the generous support of the William Davidson Institute.