Choice Points: A Conversation on Moral Leadership, Power and Responsibility

The purpose of the course is to develop knowledge, skills, and strategies that enable students to examine high-stakes moral dilemmas, understand their complexity, and take meaningful action to remedy them.

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Topics covered

In a world in which most organizations, communities, and societies face enormous adaptive pressures, the practice of moral leadership is critical – the practice of mobilizing people to meet the challenges that will enable them to thrive in changing and challenging times.

This course focuses on how people who face difficult decisions in complex systems can create moral clarity, especially when their consciences, institutional values, or broader moral principles don’t provide it.

Course design

For this course, modern and classical works of literature serve as a point of departure for a conversation on some of the most important dimensions of moral leadership. Some of the greatest books such Antigone serves as a foundation to discussing the most difficult leadership challenges of our time related to questions of trust, conscience, responsibility, and cultural awareness.