For example, my company created and launched an online leadership development program targeting Hispanic professionals that many said was ahead of its time.

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Every major corporation on the face of the planet has a leadership development program, but I challenge you to find a definition of leadership anywhere in the curriculum.

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Conant put together a two-year leadership development program that he personally ran, requiring leaders to attend five major sessions of two or three days each, giving them homework and reading assignments, and requiring them to work with a peer coach.

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Grawitch is the director of the Leadership and Organizational Development Program at Saint Louis University.

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But IBM, with clients in 170 countries and two-thirds of its work force outside the U.S., is the first to combine international community service and team leadership development in one program.

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Hamburger University, almost 50 years old, started a training and development program that mentors restaurant crews, , emphasizes leadership development and identifies employees with potential.

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Production of the lanterns was slow until Wadongo attended a leadership training program sponsored by the nonprofit Sustainable Development for All-Kenya.

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George developed and taught for many years the popular second-year MBA course Authentic Leadership Development (ALD), which he has compressed into a five-day Executive Education program at Harvard Business School.

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