“Leadership is not a product of practices or an adaptation of style. Leadership is a unique and individually formed self-expression – an expression in behalf of commitments to matters larger than one’s self. A true leader’s commitments are beyond personal gain, and they include one’s self-interest and the self-interests of others. 

“Each of us has something unique to contribute through our leadership. When you stand for your own leadership, then others will stand with you. There is no leading without standing - standing for something of real value.

“When you choose to lead you challenge yourself to discover who you are as a leader and to know this with the same certainty that you know and say your own name.

“I am committed to providing development of leaders through the kind of education that will establish leadership as a profession and fully legitimize leadership as a field of study in academia.�

Mel Toomey, Founder

Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership 

Scholar in Residence, The Graduate Institute