Katie Leadership Impact
WOMEN LEADERS TRANSFORM THE WORLD
Our world needs great leaders like you. Realize your potential and begin your journey to a meaningful career through Katie Leadership Impact.
Accelerate Your Path to Leadership
Our team of St. Kates faculty, staff, alumnae, and leaders in the business community help you explore and apply your leadership strengths. Katie Leadership Impact is a leadership development program that helps you realize your potential as a leader and build a meaningful career. The program fosters leadership skills through coursework, applied learning, internships, and student support.
Bridging Coursework with Real-World Experiences
Building Leadership Into Curriculum
Leadership and Influence
Your first class is Leadership and Influence. Explore your leadership strengths, learn how to become an effective leader, identify a leadership role that interests you, and gain practice leading.
Leadership Minor
The Leadership Minor is an interdisciplinary minor available to all undergraduate students at St. 做厙輦⑹. Through study and practice, students will discover that leadership can take many forms. With this minor, students are prepared to lead on campus, in their communities, and in their careers.
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, lead developer of the COVID-19 vaccine, speaks to St. 做厙輦⑹ students about her leadership journey as part of the University's Women of Color Leadership Series in February 2022.
Co-Curriculum Programming to Inspire and Empower Young Leaders
Women of Color Leadership Speaker Series
Lead and Influence Business Summer Camp for high school students
Let's Get Started
Katie Leadership Impact is open to all St. Kates undergraduate students. Program Manager, Genevieve Bennett at gebennett227@stkate.edu to learn more.
Katie Leaders
Campus leader Ania Salcedo '22 represented the University as a 2020 Campus Compact Newman Fellow.
Professor Katie Campbell, PhD, and nursing majors Meghan Landry '21 (left) and Meghan Katers '21 (right) took on a long-term collaborative research project that engaged Mayo Clinic and received high accolades from the University.
Mainhia Thao '18 (center) was chosen as a Fulbright grantee. Allison Adrian, PhD, associate professor (left) and Mysee Chang '13 (right), both Fulbright advisors and Fulbright alumnae themselves, helped Thao navigate the application process.
The Katie Leadership Impact program is possible thanks to a $1.25 million grant from The Manitou Fund, created in 1966 by late Minnesota businessman Donald McNeely.
What is PeopleGrove?
PeopleGrove is a digital platform that connects you with other Katies, alums, and friends of the University by bringing them together in one place to help you get to where you want to go and thrive. Whether you need advice, knowledge about a job opportunity, or are seeking to connect with others in your field of interest, community members in PeopleGrove are there to inform, coach, and inspire. Connect through a flash meeting to gain access to information quickly or establish an ongoing relationship. PeopleGrove is your resource for connections that count.
Activating your professional networks now is one of the most important decisions you can make as a student for launching and unlocking opportunities for your professional career growth. For information about setting up your profile and navigating the platform, please go to the St. Kates PeopleGrove Resource Page.