UK launches campus-wide Leadership Development Collaborative for 2025-26

The University of Kentucky Leadership Development Collaborative (LDC) kicked off the academic year by bringing together 37 faculty and staff from 15 colleges and units to explore ways to share leadership initiatives across campus on Sept. 8.

The LDC was created through funding from the Provost’s Institutional Multidisciplinary Paradigm to Accelerate Collaboration and Transformation (IMPACT) Award, received by Laura Bryan, Ph.D., director of honors leadership initiatives and now interim dean of Lewis Honors College. Bryan envisioned the campus-wide collaborative as a way to prepare future leaders who will impact Kentucky’s economic development, human well-being and quality of life.

Based on ideas generated during the kick-off meeting, the Leadership Advisory Council (LAC) of this IMPACT Award will guide the next steps for the LDC. The council includes representatives from across campus, such as faculty from CELT, the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, the College of Education and the Gatton College of Business and Economics, as well as leaders from Student Success, the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration and Lewis Honors College.

Other goals for the IMPACT Award include a partnership between the Lewis Honors College and the Martin School for Public Policy and Administration to design and implement the Rising Leader Education Program and the partnership of seven campus units as members of the LAC to guide the IMPACT Award.

Faculty and staff interested in learning more about the LDC or joining future gatherings can share their contact information here: https://uky.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4N5TUtcQ7MOE3Vc.