Graduate student leadership development seminar set for Sept. 22

The Krause Center for Leadership and Ethics and The Citadel Graduate College will host the second annual Citadel Graduate College Leadership Seminar on Sept. 22, 2010.

Last year, the seminar hosted more than 50 student delegates from the College of Charleston Graduate School and The Citadel Graduate College. This graduate seminar, which runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Mark Clark Hall, returns because of strong graduate student participation in The Citadel’s Principled Leadership Symposium held each March and to provide graduate students with additional leadership learning opportunities at The Citadel.

We are expected to be the leaders of tomorrow in our respective industry and in our community, said Jim Cissel, an MBA student at The Citadel. To become a leader of tomorrow, we need to work on our leadership skills. One thing we do here at The Citadel is present a Leadership Seminar that allows students to learn to be a leader outside the classroom.

The theme for this year’s event is Leading and Communicating in Challenging Times and features two keynote speakers: Gregory Bulanow, chief of the North Charleston Fire Department, and Miranda Sevcik, a former television news producer and anchor and founder of Media Masters, a firm that helps lawyers communicate with media in high profile cases. In addition, students will be given the opportunity to assess their leadership skills and actively participate in group decision making exercises and case study reviews.

I was impressed by how much the 2009 seminar applied to my career track, said Amanda Helton, a master’s in public administration student at the College of Charleston. I felt very involved during the seminar and definitely took home an abundance of information to think about. I hope in the future more graduate students from College of Charleston will attend to benefit from this opportunity,

For more information and registration is online at www.citadel.edu/krause-center. The seminar is free but reservations are required because seating is limited.

Bios for keynote speakers

Gregory Bulanow began firefighting career in 1996 with the North Charleston Fire Department. He literally climbed the ladder, being promoted to engineer in 1999, captain in 2001, battalion chief in 2006 and assistant chief in 2008. Along the way he excelled as a finalist on the Firefighter Combat Challenge during the national and world championships and while developing fire prevention programs that have been recognized with state and nationa awards for excellence. In 2009, Bulanow was appointed chief of the North Charleston Fire Department.

Bulanow earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Cedarville College in Cedarville, Ohio, and a master’s degree in management from Southern Wesleyan University in Central, S.C. He is a graduate of the Executive Fire Officer Program at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Md., and has achieved professional credentialing as a Chief Fire Officer by the Center for Public Safety Excellence in Chantilly, Va. Bulanow also has been accepted for membership by the Institution of Fire Engineers headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Miranda Sevcik is an award-winning broadcast news producer and anchor and founder of Media Masters, a Houston-based firm that creates strategic communication plans for law firms dealing with high profile cases.

Sevcik began her media career in 1990 and worked as for NBC in Washington, D.C., while in college and as a reporter and anchor for NBC affiliates in Louisiana, South Carolina and Texas Career highlights include breaking the Phen-Fen diet drug danger story; reporting on the Million Man March on Washington, D.C.; and covering the 52-day siege at the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, Texas.

Through her company Sevcik has worked as an audience researcher, legal media strategist, media liaison and spokesperson on many high profile cases, including the Dr. Conrad Murray/Michael Jackson case with attorney Ed Chernoff and with attorney Terry Bryant who represented Richard Hicks, a crew member aboard the Maersk Alabama cargo ship when it was hijacked by Somali pirates.

Time, Location & Activity

8 – 8:30 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Registration table open on 2nd floor foyer of Mark Clark Hall

8:45-08:50 a.m.

Welcome by Citadel President Lt. Gen. John W. Rosa
Mark Clark Hall – Buyer Auditorium

8:50-9 a.m.
Icebreaker Exercise
Non- verbal communications – Find Your Suit

9-10 a.m.
DISC Assessment Exercise

10-10:15 a.m.
Break
Mark Clark Hall

10:30-11 a.m.
Discuss results of the DISC personality test
Mark Clark Hall – Buyer Auditorium

11-11:30 a.m.
Introduction of group facilitators
Organize into Table Groups
Review of Communications Case Study
Move to Table Groups

Noon-12:30 p.m.
Working Lunch
Lunch Buffet available at noon
Mark Clark Hall – Buyer Auditorium

12:30 – 1 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Chief Gregory Bulanow, North Charleston Fire Department

1-2 p.m.
Small Group Case Study – Crisis Topic
Mark Clark Hall

2:15-3 p.m.
Case Study Out brief
Mark Clark Hall – Buyer Auditorium

3-3:45 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Miranda Sevcik, Media Masters

3:45-4 p.m.
Seminar Wrap up