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Today's leadership industry offers hundreds of books and resources on developing leadership skills, mostly designed for adults to advance in their workplaces. The call for leadership is loud, yet by the time adults start learning leadership skills, it may be too late. The time to help develop our future leaders is today with our youth. Yet, so few resources exist. And those that do are often geared toward adults who want to teach young people about leadership rather than toward youth themselves.
The purpose of this book is to help young people develop skills and competencies necessary for effective self-leadership. As a DIY generation that enjoys learning on their own, an interactive book that guides youth through their own learning and development where they can read, complete activities, and reflect on their lives when it comes to leadership puts the learning into the hands of the learners to self-pace and reflect on their own. By including reflection and application questions, self-assessments, case scenarios, and other activities, young people can make meaning of the content in a personal way.
About the author
Dr. Corey Seemiller is as a professor in the Department of Leadership Studies in Education and Organizations at Wright State University, teaching undergraduate courses in organizational leadership as well as graduate courses in leadership development and student affairs and higher education. She is the author of The Student Leadership Competencies Guidebook and associated tools and assessments to help educators develop intentional curriculum that enhances leadership competency development. She has served as an issue editor for New Directions for Student Leadership, the co-chair for the National Leadership Symposium and the Leadership Education Academy, and an associate editor of the Journal of Leadership Studies. Dr. Seemiller also has a deep understanding of today's young adults. She is the co-author of several articles as well as four books on Generation Z (born 1995-2010) including Generation Z: A Century in the Making, Generation Z Goes to College, Generation Z Leads, and Generation Z Learns. She also co-authored the Gen Z Voices on Voting research report and the Campus of Tomorrow report. Dr. Seemiller recently led the Gen Z Global Study where she worked with 91 research collaborators to better understand Generation Z in a post-COVID world. Participants from 81 countries took part in the study.Her highly popular TED Talk on Generation Z at TEDxDayton showcased how Generation Z is making a difference in the world. Her work has been featured on NPR and in The New York Times as well as in several other news publications and academic journals. She has also been interviewed for podcasts as well as TV and radio shows worldwide.
