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Develop your leadership skills

Practice your leadership skills in the student organizations you join, through peer mentoring experiences, on- and off-campus jobs and volunteer work. Get involved. Fill leadership roles. Develop new clubs and events. At Elon, there are so many opportunities to make a difference on campus, in the community and globally. Graduate with the desire and ability to work collaboratively within diverse communities of people, with the confidence and competence to put innovative ideas into action for positive change.

 

 

A group of Phoenix Leaders pose for a photo outside. They are all wearing maroon shirts and are holding their hands in the shape of a P and L.
Center for Leadership

Programs, scholarships and engagement opportunities

Elon’s Center for Leadership supports you as you learn, practice and make meaning from being a leader at Elon. The center offers leadership programming, coaching and engagement opportunities. Take leadership workshops. Join the Phoenix Leaders Program, an opportunity for emerging leaders to engage in a reflective leadership journey during their first year at Elon. Apply to be an Isabella Cannon Leadership Fellow, earn scholarship money, take Leadership Studies classes and become part of a co-hort. Complete a leadership Experiential Learning Requirement.

Nick Muller works on an FSAE machine in Founder's Hall.
Nick Muller 鈥24

Building a team and a car

When Nick Muller was in his first year at Elon, one of his engineering professors mentioned that when he was in college, he was on a team that built a racecar from scratch. Intrigued, Nick started doing research. Four years later, Nick developed a team, Phoenix Racing, connected with engineers, raised money, sourced materials and along with his team members is designing and building a Formula 1 electric car in a prototype lab in one of the buildings in Elon鈥檚 Innovation Quad.

鈥淣o one on this team knows how to build a car, but we鈥檙e doing it anyway. It鈥檚 also very meaningful. It matters a lot to us and to the engineering program. It shows what we鈥檙e capable of as Elon engineers.鈥

Genevieve stands wearing a backpack. Behind her is mountains and a beautiful sky.
Genevieve Emerson 鈥23

Guiding others

Genevieve Emerson majored in outdoor leadership and education and strategic communications at Elon. In her classes, she heard stories about how crises happen and how leaders either make or break the situation. Before she graduated in 2023, she was working as a ski instructor at Winter Park Resort in Colorado, leading backpacking trips. During one outing, she used the leadership skills and lessons she learned in her Elon classes to keep participants safe when a bear showed up. Genevieve continues to work at Winter Park and is planning to complete a graduate program in adaptive outdoor recreation.

鈥淲ith each experience it became even more clear that I would love to keep leading trips for people. I really enjoy it. I think it鈥檚 so fulfilling being able to introduce people who haven鈥檛 been to a place and have them filled with awe.鈥

Chris is in a selfie photo with three fellow students and they are standing in front of a hand written STEM Saturday sign.
Christopher D鈥橧nzeo 鈥24

Leading STEM outreach

Christopher D鈥橧nzeo, a chemistry major, took on a leadership role with fellow Elon student Sam Ramirez and developed STEM Saturday at Elon, an outreach event for local high school students. From conceptualizing to applying for grants and creating partnerships with STEM organizations at Elon and local high schools, Christopher used leadership skills he鈥檚 honed at Elon to make the event a success.

鈥淚 don’t think we could have been this involved in kickstarting a brand-new program at most other schools. I hope to have some part of my career be dedicated to science outreach and communication, and so I think that helping to develop this program has prepared me for that.鈥