Tigers Lead

Tigers Lead is a certificate leadership development program that guides students in discovering themselves as a leader through interactive workshops, hands-on experiences, and community building.  

Tigers Lead Facilitators
Student Activities Leadership Ambassadors
Student Leadership Ambassadors presenting a workshop
Student Leadership ambassadors observing a workshop

Tigers Lead is a scaffolded leadership development program open to all undergraduate majors. Completed in three phases over the course of multiple semesters, each phase ensures participants have the ability to delve into various aspects of leadership. The program offers active and engaged learning, community building activities, and a certificate at the completion of the semester. 

As a result of participating in the Tigers Lead program, students will have the opportunity to engage in leadership education centered on: 

 

Phase One: The Individual

In this phase, leaders dive into self-discovery of who they are as individuals and explore how who they are directly impacts the leaders they show up as. To successfully earn the Phase One certificate, students must attend all required workshops, complete a “Leadership Experience Reflection”, and submit the program questionnaire. Phase One occurs in the Fall semester, and a Fast-Track version occurs in the spring semester. 

Focus: Personal development

As a result of participating in Tigers Lead, students will be able to: 

  • Identify their personal values  
  • Recall factors that directly influence their leadership style(s)  
  • Produce a reflection on how they practice and share their leadership   
  • Articulate tools needed to engage in a lifetime of leadership development 


Phase Two: The Cohort 

In Phase Two, leaders will join a weekly cohort to explore the group-dynamics of leadership and learn about integrity in action. Leaders will develop skillsets for operating in integrity as well as critiquing integrity effectively. To successfully earn the Phase Two certificate, students must attend 90% of the weekly cohort meetings within the semester.

Focus: Integrity in action

As a result of participating in Tigers Lead, students will be able to: 

  • Create a definition for integrity in the leadership context  
  • Recall examples of how integrity impacts leadership 
  • Compose a systems-based approach for developing effective teams 
  • Evaluate how integrity influences their expression of leadership 


Phase Three: The Community

In Phase Three, leaders garner all their learned skills to complete an original community-based project with an external partner of the University. In order to successfully earn the Phase Three certificate, students must attend, participate, and contribute to the implementation of the community-based project. 

Focus: Community collaboration

As a result of participating in Tigers Lead, students will be able to: 

  • Identify personalized, leadership tools that are being used for a community-based project 
  • Create a leadership opportunity for a diverse group of individuals with a community partner   Manage multiple layers of relationships within systems  
  • Justify decision-making based on community context   (Group outcome) 
  • Evaluate an end-product to conclude its effectiveness and impact (Group outcome)

 

Frequently Asked Questions

At the beginning of each semester, Tigers Lead will host multiple Information Sessions. At the end of the Information Session, students will be invited to register to join the program. After registration, students will attend a required orientation where they will receive the schedule for the semester and meet other participants joining the program. Please contact for more information. 

Time commitments for each phase varies, but all involve meeting once per week. For Phase 1, there is only a one-hour commitment per week.    

If a student is joining Tigers Lead through Fast-Track, their commitment will exceed one hour per week as they are completing an expedited version of Phase One. 

In the ideal trajectory, students will complete all of Tigers Lead in 3 semesters. If a student in unable to join the next level of the program and did not graduate from the institution, they may complete the subsequent level the next time it is offered. 

A leadership experience reflection is an opportunity for a leader to verbalize what they are learning about themselves through real-world experiences. Leaders will be required to reflect on one leadership experience they’ve had within the semester. These experiences could be joining a student organization or attending a leadership event held by Towson University department. Reflections will be due by the end of the fall semester.  

Yes! Tigers Lead is a program that is meant to help enhance how you show up as a leader, not limit it. Leadership is completed in doing and we encourage all Tigers Lead participants to engage their leadership skills within other parts of the University! Tigers Lead is a community of leaders, but we share our talents far & wide.