Dean's Leadership Program

The Haub School of Business offers a co-curricular leadership development program for all SJU undergraduate students from the Haub School of Business, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Health Professions. Dean’s Leadership Program members are actively committed to learning more about the concept of leadership broadly, while also exploring their own perspective, experience, and trajectory of leadership specifically. Students will learn a distinctively HSB and Jesuit framework of leadership that is values-based, reflective, and biased toward serving others. The program is designed to be progressive in nature, building on the skills, lessons, and experiences of the previous year(s), with increasing demands and responsibilities. The Dean’s Leadership Program directly contributes to the formation of our students and will be another distinctive feature that will distinguish the HSB and SJU from other schools and universities.

Learning objectives:

• Engage in self-discovery of one’s values, purpose, strengths, and weaknesses
• Engage in service to something other than oneself
• Learn to identify and test assumptions regarding such constructs as leadership, success, wealth, and service
• Learn to engage in reflective experimentation

• All SJU first-year and second-year students can apply
• Write a one-paragraph description of their definition of leadership, a one-paragraph outline of what they wish to learn about, and a one-paragraph description of how they think they would add value as a participant in the program
• Interview with Program committee member
• The letter of recommendation is now in the form of a Google Form. Send the Google Form link provided in the application form to your professor / mentor / faculty who will be doing your recommendation letters. Ask your faculty, mentors, or professors to submit the Google Form.

Application Form

The Dean’s Leadership Program (DLP) is a high-impact leadership experience designed to challenge students to grow personally, professionally, and ethically. Through a combination of workshops, service projects, mentorship, and reflection, DLP students are expected to actively engage in a wide range of leadership development activities each semester.

Because our program is dynamic and intentionally responsive to student needs and current opportunities, requirements vary by class year and are updated each semester.

Curious what DLP looks like in action? 

Explore events, student highlights, and leadership moments on our student-led Instagrams. 

Deans Leadership Program 

Out of the Darkness Walk 

Past events include: 

• Out of the Darkness Walk – Annually Held in November
• Closing the Inequalities Gap to Achieve Social Justice, hosted at the United Nations HQ
• Hall of Fame Award Ceremony honoring Adele Cirone Oliva ’87
• Ignatian Leadership Conference
• The Power of Broke featuring Daymond John
• Thrive: Defining Success in the 21st Century featuring Arianna Huffington
• Thriving in Philly and a Global Economy Panel
• World Affairs Council Events
• TEDxSJU: Oh, The Places You’ll Grow
• To Frack or Not to Frack: Debating America’s Quest for Energy, featuring Russell Gold
• An Evening with Tom Brokaw