michelle obama leadership project
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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?
Thank you