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Accenture Leadership Center Celebrates First Year of Leadership Development

The Accenture Leadership Center (ALC) celebrated its first year of leadership development for business undergraduates with a capstone event held at the Fluno Center on April 16.  All students who participated in any of the center’s events throughout the academic year were invited to the evening that included a keynote speech by Charles Gasparino, an on-air editor with CNBC, who was UW-Madison’s spring semester business writer in residence. The event also included student presentations, awards  and a celebration of the center’s inaugural year.

At the event, the 2007 Accenture Leadership Center Foundation Award was given to five students (Talia Esser, Kristin Kroes, Dan Reich, Jesse Siegelman and Jen Zaidel) for helping to build and promote the Accenture Leadership Center during its first year.

Recognition was given to students who participated in the Accenture Leadership Center’s Immersion Track.  The Immersion Track programming includes a six-day leadership “boot camp” and hands-on project work with Accenture mentors that allow students to apply their leadership skills.  Students worked on two School of Business projects, a campus project and a project for a Madison non-profit called Grassroots Leadership College. The student teams who participated in the Immersion Track gave brief presentations on their project at the capstone event. Recognition also was given to ALC  students who placed in last fall’s case competition.