RISE

This year I was given the opportunity to help facilitate a conference called RISE which was focused around the 7-habits of highly effective people. There was a main facilitator who taught the rest of us exactly what the 7-habits were and how we can apply them to our everyday lives to become better leaders and…

Junior Year

I think a lot of my greatest lessons of this year came out of the opportunities I was afforded. I found myself more as a professional, and as a leader than I ever have before through my involvements, and the people I was surrounded by. Below is a list of the most impactful to me…

Leadership Launch 2018

After spending about a week completely processing everything rushing through my brain I’ve decided the best way to completely compile my thoughts on Special Olympic’s Leadership Launch this year would be to compile a little blog post. Throwing it back to my junior year in high school, I was introduced to a program formerly known…

Mentor Workshop

Wow, this year has absolutely FLOWN by. I remember last year at this time anxiously awaiting on Twitter to see who my mentor was. She made a fake accountant to reveal herself to me after sending me on random, fun adventures. A year later Madison has helped me tremendously. I am pretty sure I spent…

Connections Conference

The Connections Conference is hosted in Traverse City at the Great Wolf Lodge and is open to various student leaders across CMU’s campus. Different organizations, RSOs, Hall Councils, etc. sent students to represent them in order to bring back ideas and ways to improve themselves and the groups they are a part of. As an…

Spark Leadership Series

The Spark Leadership series is a three part event that is held for two hours every other week. When I walked into Spark the first night it was really the first CMU leadership event I have walked into besides Safari so I really wasn’t sure what to expect. I had heard so much about the…

Leadership Training Institute PT 1

As a part of CVFC we get the chance to attend various Leadership Training Institutes (LTIs) throughout the state and help facilitate one of the sessions that these high school students attend. This first LTI I attended was right off campus in Mount Pleasant at the Comfort Inn. Myself and Alyssa were signed up to…

Leadership Safari

Taking decorations off my walls, going on a last midnight drive with Hailey, singing our hearts out to Hannah Montana, crying leaving Ashley at the Pancake Factory, and packing up my Ford Fusion with my mom and heading towards Central Michigan University-ready for the next adventure that was waiting just around the corner. I arrived…