Leadership Legacy Showcase

Creating this portfolio offers Graduate Professional Assistants and Leadership Consultants a holistic way to articulate their experiences, skills developed, and areas of strength and growth, benefiting them not only in future career opportunities, but also personally and professionally in throughout their leadership journey.

The digital portfolio allows our student staff an opportunity to: 

• Demonstrate Leadership Abilities: Showcases practical leadership experiences and achievements, making them attractive to potential employers and reinforcing their capacity to lead with integrity
• Enhance Professional Branding: Provides a polished, professional representation of their skills and accomplishments, supporting their identity as leaders committed to positive change
• Support Career Advancement: Offers evidence of their competencies and growth, aiding in career progression, networking, and personal development
• Promote Reflective Practice: Encourages ongoing reflection and learning, fostering continuous personal and professional growth, and empowering them to lead with integrity and focus on leadership for positive change

Students will be asked to reflect on their growth and development in the following University Life Student Learning Domains:

• Practical Skills: Critical thinking, communicating effectively, managing personal affairs, managing career development, technological competence
• Global and Multicultural Inclusion: Understanding and appreciation for differences, understand and appreciate human differences, inclusive worldview, cultural interaction, climate of mutual respect
• Interpersonal Competence: Interdependence, collaboration, and leadership
• Social Responsibility: Social justice, civic engagement, community leadership, allyship and advocacy, and social entrepreneurship
• Well-Being: Psychological well-being, financial well-being, community well-being, physical well-being, purpose/career well-being, social well-being
• Identity Development: Self-understanding, values and ethics, spiritual awareness, resilience

Our Graduate Professional Assistants will be asked to reflect on their growth and development within the NACE Career Competencies

• Career and Self-Development: Proactively develop oneself and one’s career through continual personal and professional learning, awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses, navigation of career opportunities, and networking to build relationships within and without one’s organization.
• Communication: Clearly and effectively exchange information, ideas, facts, and perspectives with persons inside and outside of an organization.
• Equity and Inclusion: Demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills required to equitably engage and include people from different cultures and backgrounds. Engage in anti-oppressive practices that actively challenge the systems, structures, and policies of racism and inequity.
• Leadership: Recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve organizational goals.
• Professionalism: Knowing work environments differ greatly, understand and demonstrate effective work habits, and act in the interest of the larger community and workplace.
• Teamwork: Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while appreciating diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities.
• Technology: Understand and leverage technologies ethically to enhance efficiencies, complete tasks, and accomplish goals.

A signature component of the showcase is the Legacy Story, a reflective piece where each consultant shares how their experiences have influenced them personally, professionally, and as emerging leaders. Rather than summarizing tasks, the Legacy Story captures:

• pivotal moments of challenge and growth
• lessons learned about values, strengths, boundaries, and purpose
• the impact they have made within the community
• the legacy they intend to carry forward

This reflective narrative allows attendees to see leadership development not as a checklist, but as a transformative journey.

RSVP for the Leadership Legacy Showcase

We are excited to share this year's Leadership Legacy Showcase will be held in hybrid format. You will have an opportunity to attend the Leadership Legacy Showcase in person or virtually.  Light snacks and refreshments will be served for the in person component.
Our amazing students have worked incredibly hard this past year making a positive impact on the Mason community in variety of different ways.  From campus-wide programming efforts, collaborative partnerships, classroom facilitations and workshops, community service outreach, and so much more, our students have truly made an impact on the leadership growth and development of our campus community.

At the Leadership Legacy Showcase, our students will not only be showcasing their digital portfolios centered around the University Life Student Learning Domains, NACE Career Ready Competencies, and the work they have done, but also share their Leadership Legacy Story. We will also be recognizing and celebrating the contributions of our amazing students and recognizing our graduating students. Our students and staff would love to have you attend if you are available and your schedule allows. Thank you in advance for your continued support and commitment to the leadership, education, and development of our students.