Liberate the Leader in Every Student
Through The Student Leadership Challenge model, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner—today's premier leadership experts—demonstrate how anyone can be a leader, regardless of age and experience. Grounded in over 25 years of extensive research, they have identified the FIVE PRACTICES OF EXEMPLARY LEADERSHIP® that are common when leaders are able to make extraordinary things happen:

1. Model the Way
2. Inspire a Shared Vision
3. Challenge the Process
4. Enable Others to Act
5. Encourage the Heart

The Student Leadership Challenge
Derived from the classic leadership book The Leadership Challenge, 4E, this title shows how anyone can be a leader, regardless of age or experience.

Student LPI Online
The easy-to-use online assessment tool that measures and develops student leadership skills.

Student LPI Print
The celebrated original assessment tool that measures and develops student leadership skills.

The Student Leadership Challenge Facilitator Certification Program
This certification program enables teachers, educators and administrators in higher and secondary education to become immersed in The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership—the core of The Student Leadership Challenge®—and develop a level of expertise aligned with the depth and integrity of The Leadership Challenge® brand.

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We believe they are.

Leadership is not about position or title, power or authority, celebrity or wealth, family or genetics. It?s also not just something for a chosen few. Leadership is everyone?s business! Leadership is about relationships, personal credibility and what you do. It?s about an observable set of skills and abilities that are useful wherever you are. And as a skill, leadership can be strengthened, honed, and enhanced, given the motivation and desire, along with practice and feedback, role models, and coaching. If students find themselves in a challenging situation that requires setting a good example for others, looking ahead to the future, taking initiative to change the status quo, building teamwork and trust, and encouraging others to succeed then they are in a situation that requires leadership. And what is required of them in this situation is that they step forward and become the best leader they can be.

The first place to look for leadership is within oneself. The Student Leadership Practices Inventory (SLPI) is a tool that enables students to take that look ? to look at the skills they now have and to build upon their immense potential to make a real difference. Focusing on the practices that actual leaders employ, The Student Leadership Challenge program offers young leaders the opportunity to measure their current leadership strengths and weaknesses, to make a plan for improvement, and to commit to growing as a leader.

Ours is an imperfect world. And yet, there remains the promise that students like the ones you teach will become the transformative leaders of today and tomorrow. It?s their vision, their values, and their beliefs that will shape the direction of our world. We need more exemplary leaders, and we need them now more than ever. There is so much extraordinary work that needs to be done. We hope that The Student Leadership Challenge will help your students feel more empowered and be more capable to accept these challenges and strengthen their will to persist in making a difference on the campus and in the world.

You can help them develop into better leaders. You can liberate the leader within each and everyone of them.