About
Our Vision
Through participation in programs, events, initiatives, and opportunities offered by the Office of Leadership in Engagement at Wake Forest, students will feel empowered and prepared to cultivate a more purposeful, caring, and just community where everyone belongs.
Our Mission
The Office of Leadership Engagement creates pathways for students to explore their leadership identity, empower themselves through community engagement, and lead towards a more compassionate and just world.
Our Knowledge Areas
By participating with the Office of Leadership Engagement, students will strengthen the following leadership capacities:
Self-Knowledge and Awareness
Students will:
- Identify and articulate their core values, beliefs, assumptions, and personal strengths, and examine how character influences the development of their leadership identity
- Align behaviors and decision-making with their personal values and sense of purpose, demonstrating a commitment to integrity in both personal and leadership contexts
- Describe their personal identity and leadership style in relation to others and explain what they have learned about themselves through leadership experiences.
- Communicate their own perspectives effectively, listen deeply to others, and engage constructively in dialogue across differences.
- Critically examine how their own biases, assumptions, and perceptions influence their understanding of leadership and community issues.
Purposeful Leadership
Students will:
- Build and sustain meaningful relationships and collaborative partnerships with WFU students, faculty, staff, and community members.
- Demonstrate leadership skills, including self-assessment, dialogue, critical thinking, and teamwork, while evaluating their own effectiveness.
- Select and implement effective strategies to engage others and take responsible action on ethical, social, or environmental challenges.
- Navigate and address conflict constructively, give and receive feedback, and identify solutions to collective problems.
Driving Social Change
Students will:
- Identify and analyze social, environmental, ethical, political, or economic issues and articulate the root causes of these issues.
- Recognize and explore opportunities for social action based on understanding systemic causes and community needs.
- Develop and apply strategies to address identified social, ethical, or political issues through leadership and civic engagement.
- Critically reflect on systems, dynamics, barriers, and opportunities related to social issues, and formulate plans for ongoing or future action.
- Demonstrate a commitment to collaborative work across and within community contexts to achieve civic and social change.