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Voices of Leadership…

On Leading by Design

This issue of Leadership is rich with examples, ideas, and tips about Leading by Design. In Walter H. Gmelch and Jeffrey L. Buller’s 2015 book, Building
Academic Leadership Capacity: A Guide to Best Practices, best practices are highlighted to initiate, enhance, and further develop academic leadership
programs. To continue building on their work and empowering leadership, we asked Academy leaders in Organizational Development to respond to the
questions below. Their insightful responses are a refection on what it means to Lead by Design in post-secondary education.

Patricia Honzay, Ed.D., District Director, Center for Employee & Organizational Dev., Maricopa County Community College District, Tempe, AZ, USA
Briefy describe what is involved in Organizational Development, and to what degree you rely on internal and external resources.
Organizational Development includes assessing the organization’s goals and employees’ readiness to meet the
goals. Tis process can identify opportunities for change. Te opportunities, across an organization, are greater
than internal capacity can address. External resources play a key role.
What have been the keys to your success in building leadership capacity?
A key to success for building capacity has come through relationships and partnerships. Tis exists through
collaboration with internal facilitators for areas such as leadership principles, coaching, and mentoring, as well as
partnerships with external programs like those ofered through EDUCAUSE, AACC, and the Chair Academy.
What are the main challenges in developing leadership capacity in organizations?
Te challenges begin with assessing individuals’ leadership goals and their skills, knowledge, and abilities. Tis is followed by
customizing a development program that can include course work, experiential work, coaching, and mentoring that is based on their
individual level of readiness.

Christopher N. Gherardi, College Associate Dean, Offce of Faculty & Professional Advancement, Suffolk County Community College, Brookhaven, NY, USA

Briefy describe what is involved in Organizational Development, and to what degree you rely on internal and external resources.
Organizational development is dedicated to expanding the knowledge and efectiveness of people within your
organization, and in the academic world organizational leadership is very dynamic. Every time you think you have
it all fgured out a new initiative is created changing the way the development of staf must proceed.
What have been the keys to your success in building leadership capacity?
Leadership development invests in people within your organization; this investment in people brings out their
best talents. Everyone leads in diferent ways, and many leadership opportunities do not happen on the top foor.
Everyone knows what the mission and goals are and we work together to get our students there.
What are the main challenges in developing leadership capacity in organizations?
Once you have buy-in from the upper levels, leadership capacity will begin and you will move from having a bunch of transactional
managers, to transformative managers for whom staf will want to work.

Khaki Wunderlich, J.D., Dean of Organizational Success and Learning, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, NY, USA

Briefy describe what is involved in Organizational Development, and to what degree you rely on internal and external resources.
We understand organizational development to be interdependent with student development and staf
development; none can thrive without the others thriving as well. We utilize external resources to help inform our
internal dialogue, to best understand our needs, and help build our future from organizational strengths.

What have been the keys to your success in building leadership capacity?
Believing that every person in the organization has the ability to lead, to take responsibility for making a
diference, however large or small. And understanding that capacity that will move the organization forward is
dependent on broad diverse participation; it cannot be built only on a small group.
What are the main challenges in developing leadership capacity in organizations?
Disabusing people of the idea that leadership is necessarily positional and that they each have the talent within them to make the
diference they hope to see.

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