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Foundations of Leadership (LDRS 500)

Term: 2021-2022 - SUMMER SESSION A

Faculty

Suzana Veiss

Suzana Dobrić Veiss, PhD

Email: suzana.veiss@uj.edu

Phone: 559-287-2352 (cell phone: text and call)

Office Hours: Available per appointment. 

About Me: Dr. Suzana Dobrić Veiss is a consultant providing services in the areas of organizational leadership, change, communication, and leadership development. She also teaches and serves as a Program Director and Assistant Professor of Strategic and Organizational Leadership in the School of Business at Fresno Pacific University and serves as an adjunct at University of Jamestown. Dr. Veiss holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from Regent University and was awarded Outstanding Graduate in the School of Business and Leadership. Dr. Veiss has served on the FPU board of trustees’ executive leadership team and on numerous non-profit organizations. Dr. Veiss presents workshops, consults, writes book chapters and articles, and speaks at conferences nationally and internationally. Her latest presentations at the International Leadership Association’s Annual Global Conference were titled: Finding your Feet: 10 Readiness Exercises in Overwhelming Change and Sensegiving During Change: A Guided Process. She lives in California with her husband Victor and three daughters. They love to travel to Europe to visit family in her homeland Croatia. Her joy is to see emerging leaders equipped with the tools necessary to accomplish the work God prepared in advance for them to do. 

Description

An introductory course surveying core leadership theories, styles, and skill sets. Students will learn the history of leadership theory development, the strengths and weaknesses of current theories, and various antecedent concepts. In addition, students will begin to explore the ethical challenges of leadership. Finally, students will be challenged to retrospectively explore the importance of personal values and attitutdes in the own personal leadership.