Stewart attends and facilitates at 2012 NCAA Leadership Forum

OLIVET, Mich. – Olivet College Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Co-Advisor Chris Stewart attended and facilitated at the 2012 NCAA Leadership Forum Nov. 1-4 in Dallas, Texas.

The Student-Athlete Leadership Forum engaged a diverse and dynamic representation of student-athletes, coaches, faculty and administrators and provided them with pertinent and customized sessions, which enhanced personal awareness and leadership skills needed to impact student-athlete development at the campus and conference level and beyond the collegiate realm. The forum was open to all institutions in the identified region. Each institution was permitted to register two student-athletes for this three-day weekend forum at no cost.

Led by Stewart and 37 other facilitators, the weekend was filled with a variety of activities to help enhance leadership skills and address components for divisional strategic planning-enhancing student athlete development. The forum was developed to provide student athletes, coaches and administrators the opportunity to increase their current skills and become more familiar with opportunities in the NCAA (divisionally) to develop student-athlete programs on their current campuses by creating an environment to network openly with new ideas to boost the student athlete experience.

“We discussed and advised with student athletes, administrators and coaches on how to become a better leader, tools to understand yourself and relate to others, and activities to increase campus involvement,” said Stewart. “All which will in turn allow everyone to hopefully be a more stable leader on your team and your team.”

“It was an amazing time to change and learn the way people think about leadership and how it can truly change an organization when done the right way. We introduced coaches to the idea that all great leaders follow a few basic concepts with their personal stamp or flavor on it.

“Overall the NCAA did an outstanding job and I hope to use it on our campus, through our conference and hopefully go national with this progressive information.”