Core Schedule & Instructors

Yomaira Tomayo

The core classes are giving me the tools I need to be a competent director of an organization, an effective communicator, and a successful leader. The clear emphasis on leadership rather than management creates an amazing atmosphere where I have felt like I had the freedom to shape my own experience.

- Ariel Kraten

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Fall Semester

NPLD 785: Group Dynamics and Organizational Politics (Kenwyn Smith)

Fall 2009 schedule:  Two intensive 48 hour weekend modules starting Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. through 6:00 p.m. on Sunday evening on the following weekends: October 23rd-25th and November 6th-8th.  Plus a Friday evening and Saturday “primer” workshop in early October (TBA).

NPLD 786: Nonprofits in a Changing World (Femida Handy)

Fall 2009 schedule: Mondays, 3:00-6:00 p.m.

NPLD 787: Leadership for the New Economy (Kenwyn Smith)

Fall 2009 schedule:  Friday evenings, 4:30-7:30 p.m. and Saturdays, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. on the following dates: September 11th and 12th, September 25th-26th, October 2nd-3rd, and October 9th-10th.

NPLD 788: Envisioning and Realizing Possibility (Richard Estes)

Fall 2009 schedule:  Thursdays, 1:00-4:00 p.m.

NPLD 790: Accounting for Asset development (Andy Lamas and Bruce Boylston)

Fall 2009 schedule:  Tuesdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Spring Semester:

NPLD 792: Transformational Reasoning (Kenwyn Smith)

Spring 2010 schedule:  Wednesdays, 4:30-8:30 p.m.

NPLD 795: Applied Leadership Workshop Series A (Various Penn Faculty)
Social Entrepreneurship; Strategic Persuasion, Influence and Negotiation; and Nonprofit Law

This spring semester course consists of three (3) Friday-Saturday workshops and is open to students from all graduate and professional programs at Penn. 

Spring 2010 schedule: Dates to be announced.

NPLD 796: Applied Leadership Workshop Series B (Femida Handy)
Governance; Ethics; and NGOs

This spring semester course consists of three (3) Friday-Saturday workshops and is open to students from all graduate and professional programs at Penn.

Spring 2010 schedule: January 22nd-23rd; February 26th-27th; and March 26th-27th.