The KLC Framework

Marshall Christmann We're all negotiators. So we should strive to make our agreements healthy, sustainable and efficient. Editor's note: A version of this article appears in the Winter 2014 Journal, which will soon arrive in mailboxes. When we think of negotiating,...

Nelson Mandela The death of Nelson Mandela yesterday at age 95 sparked a flurry of wonderful remembrances for a man who peacefully liberated his country from Apartheid and became South Africa’s first black president after spending 27 years as a political prisoner. But...

The ideas being advanced by Ronald Heifetz, a professor of public leadership at Harvard Kennedy's School, have been extremely influential in the development of the Kansas Leadership Center's approach to leadership for the common good. Heifetz, whose was profiled by...

It will take "human resources" to change the trend lines surrounding childhood poverty in Kansas, Kansas Leadership Center President and CEO Ed O'Malley wrote in a Sunday Op-Ed commentary in The Wichita Eagle. Nearly 2 out of every 10 children in Kansas live in...

What would encourage Kansans to care more about local elections, issues? Stickers being given out to voters in Hope, Kansas, during last fall's general election. (Photo by Jeff Tuttle) By Jill Sandberg Editor’s note: The spring issue of The Journal, a quarterly...

A pair of Kansans with passion to improve the lives of others just got a turbo-boost. Wayne Bell, Wichita, and Shannon Cotsoradis, Lawrence, have been selected as the initial participants in Onward Kansas, the Kansas Leadership Center’s new, personalized leadership...

Nearly three dozen Kansans, recently elected to the state legislature for the first time, gathered recently as a group to learn how to maximize their ability to exercise leadership. Leadership and Legacy in the Statehouse - A New Legislator’s Program is an extensive...

Inspiration consumes me as we reach the end of the first KLC Global Gathering. As a Kansan, I am inspired to have all these people from 13 countries and 17 American states plus the District of Columbia visiting the Sunflower State.  They have come from Norway (4),...

More than 50 leadership development practitioners from around the globe are coming to Wichita to explore the Kansas Leadership Center ‘big idea.’ When Kansas Leadership Center President & CEO Ed O’Malley participated in a Harvard leadership development seminar...