Leadership Presentation

Navneet Bhatia | Jack Burris | Thaisa Fernandes

_Background

_Early life

_College years

_Career

_Personality Profile

_Myers Briggs Personality Traits

_Keirsey Temperament

_A Charismatic Moral Leader

_Effectiveness as a Leader

AgendaMichelle Obama

"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's

problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown

us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."

Michelle Obama

Background

1991Gives up the

corporate job

1985 Graduated cum

laude with BA

1983Joined Princeton

University

1991Took up public

sector positions as Assistant to the Mayor &

Asst. Commissioner of planning & development

1996 Associate

Dean at UC

1981 Graduated

as the salutatorian of her class

1988 Joined as an associate at

Chicago office of the law firm Sidley Austin

2002Joined UC hospitals as the Exec. Director of community affairs

1964 Michelle

LaVaughn Robinson born in

DeYoung, IL

2009 Assumed

office as the First lady

2005Became the VP of community & external affairs

1993Became Exec. Director for the Chicago office

of public allies

1988 - 1991 1993 - 2001 2002 - 2005 20091964 - 1981 ‘83 - ‘85

1988Earned her J.D.

degree from Harvard Law

School

Early life

_Raised with an emphasis on education

_Learned to read at home by the age of four

_Skipped the second grade

_Served as the student government treasurer

_Graduated as class salutatorian

_Raised on the Southside of Chicago

_She was chosen for a “gifted student” program which permitted her the chance to take advanced biology and French classes at Kennedy-King Community College

College Years

_Graduated cum-laude from Princeton University with a major in Sociology

_At Princeton, she challenged the teaching methodology for French because she felt it should be more Conversational

_In Harvard Law school she took part in demonstrations demanding for more minority students and professors

_Worked for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau assisting low-income tenants and housing cases

_She is the third First Lady with a postgraduate degree, after her two immediate predecessors, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Laura Bush

Career

_She spent the early part of her legal career working at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met Barack

_She worked for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, assisting low-income tenants with housing cases

_Served on several boards, including TreeHouse Foods, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Michelle Obama - Personality Profile

Extrovert

SensingThinking

Judging

Myers- Briggs Keirsey Temperament

Guardian

SJ

Myers Briggs Personality Traits

Extraverted

_Michelle Obama has always been very upfront about her beliefs and even with her responsibilities as First Lady, she always puts her family first

_At one point, she attended thirty-three events in eight days

She also made numerous speaking appearances in addition to doing interviews on shows such as The View and in publications such as Ladies’ Home Journal

_Her extroverted personality makes her the charismatic leader that makes people follow her

ESTJ

"The extraverted types learn best by talking and interacting with others. By interacting with the

physical world, extraverts can process and make sense of new information."

Myers Briggs Personality Traits

Sensing

_She has discussed race and education by using motherhood as a framework

_LGBT is an important issue for millions of Americans, and for Barack and her, it really comes down to the values of fairness and equality we want to pass down to her girls. In their own words - “These are basic values that kids learn at a very young age and that we encourage them to apply in all areas of their lives. And in a country where we teach our children that everyone is equal under the law, discriminating against same-sex couples just isn't right. It's as simple as that”

ESTJ

"Sensing types enjoy a learning environment in which the material is presented in a detailed and

sequential manner. Sensing types often attend to what is occurring in the present, and can move to the

abstract after they have established a concrete experience."

Myers Briggs Personality Traits

Thinking

_She wrote her own stump speeches for her husband's presidential campaign and generally spoke without notes.

_In 1996, Mrs. Obama joined the University of Chicago with a vision of bringing campus and community together.

As Associate Dean of Student Services, she developed the university's first community service program, and under her leadership as Vice President of Community and External Affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center, volunteerism skyrocketed.

Her far sighted thinking made her a role model for women and an advocate for poverty awareness, higher education, and healthy living

ESTJ

"Thinking types desire objective truth and logical principles and are natural at deductive reasoning."

Myers Briggs Personality Traits

Juding

_When issues of race and class surfaced in Public Allies staff discussions and training sessions, as they always did, Obama had little tolerance for dogma or endless debate. Getting from Point A to Point B was her focus, an approach that would become a hallmark of her professional and political life

_Mrs. Obama built the Chicago Office of Public Allies from the ground up, mentoring 30 to 40 young leaders each year and helping them obtain internships at government agencies and nonprofits. ‘Within two years, she oversaw an annual budget of $1.1 million. It was “the first thing that was mine and I was responsible for every aspect of it.” - Michelle Obama’

ESTJ

"Judging types will thrive when information is organized and structured, and they will be motivated to

complete assignments in order to gain closure"

Keirsey Temperament

Started “Let’s move” to reverse child obesity

“What we need right now is leadership; we need people with judgment, we need decent people,

people with common sense, people with strong family values.”

Helps working women balance career and family

She generally speaks without notes

Michelle Obama - The Guardian (SJ)

The first lady has been a strong voice in the global movement for women’s rights

She learned about gratitude and humility

She stands for justice and equal rights for the LGBT community

Michelle and her risk-averse strategy are huge successes

Leadership Style

Leader in Heels is currently a public epitome of success, hard work, personal integrity and a positive role model for women of all ages around the world.

Leader in Heels is currently a public epitome of success, hard work, personal integrity and a positive role model for women of all ages around the world

Moral Leader

In 2010, she launched Let’s Move!, bringing together community leaders, educators, medical professionals, parents, and others in a nationwide effort to address the challenge of childhood obesity

This was a challenge to every American to say thank you, take action, and make a real commitment to

supporting our military families”.

In 2014, Mrs. Obama launched the Reach Higher Initiative, an effort to inspire young people across America to take charge of their future by completing their education past high school, whether at a professional training program, a community college, or a four-year college or university.

In 2015, Mrs. Obama joined President Obama to launch Let Girls Learn, a U.S. government-wide

initiative to help girls around the world go to school and stay in school

A Leader in Heels

Effectiveness as a Leader

_In 2008, Obama accepted the invitation to become an honorary member of the 100-year-old black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha

_At Harvard she participated in demonstrations advocating the hiring of professors who were members of minorities

"Paul Schmitz, who ran the organization’s Milwaukee office, said Obama was the person who would

say during a conversation, “That’s nice, but we’ve got to get things done.”

Slevin, NYTimes

Questions?

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