LEAD 15
Leadership and The Good Life: Your First Decade After Williams Winter 2025

There is nothing quite like life in the Purple Valley, but many adventures await after Williams. Pondering what The Good Life might look like for you after graduation? Intrigued by exploring different paths and leadership styles across law, nonprofit, government, and business? Interested in developing and honing leadership, collaboration, prioritization, and strategic decision making skills that can benefit both your personal and professional life? Wondering how themes like curiosity, happiness, and creativity connect to designing a life as well as to leadership? We will have engaging conversations addressing these topics and many more. We will also be joined by guest speakers who have led interesting lives and become leaders in their fields since graduating from college. You will write five one-page papers over the course of winter study exploring ideas and topics discussed in class and in our readings. You will also write a short final paper. Outside of class, we will read a range of articles and insightful pieces as well as watch film clips and listen to podcasts that will inform our class discussions and help build valuable leadership skills for navigating life after Williams.