Yale SOM Improves Leadership Development Program, Appoints New Director

A retired Army general and West Point leadership expert will help reintroduce the Yale School of Management (SOM)’s Leadership Development Program (LDP), the New Haven business school announced this week.

Brigadier General (Retired) Thomas A. Kolditz, a retired Army general and West Point leadership expert, will take control of Yale SOM’s new LDP beginning July 1, 2012. 

Kolditz served most recently as professor and head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and was also founding director of the West Point Leadership Center.

SOM faculty committee has been evaluating leadership training at the school over the past year and developed a set of priorities for Kolditz.  The new program will emphasize the importance of understanding core values and commitments and the impact of decisions on a wide range of global constituencies.

Source: Yale SOM’s Leadership Development Program.