Leadership Fellows Program

LFP Overview

The Leadership Fellows Program (LFP) is a core leadership development program at Providence College. It provides a space for emerging and experienced student leaders to develop critical skills through dialogue, contemplation, and mindfulness.

LFP is a cohort experience. Students (fellows) participate in a series of eight engaging workshops and two formational leadership events throughout the academic year they spend as a fellow. Workshop topics will help students identify their passions, define success, and develop a better relationship with themselves and others.

They are guided through the experience by student peers, who have previously completed the program, known as companions.

Program Philosophy

Regardless of knowledge or skills, effective leadership requires a consciousness of one’s own values, attitudes, and beliefs, and the conviction to live out those values and beliefs with purpose and integrity.

With this in mind, Providence College’s Leadership Fellows Program assists students in becoming authentic, effective, and ethical leaders, through

• Increasing self-awareness through reflection and assessment
• Increasing mindfulness and empathy
• Developing the ability to engage in dialogue, listen deeply to others, positively impact relationships, collaborate, and create positive change
• Active experimentation as a means of determining vocation
• Identifying life’s purpose and possible future selves through contemplation

Workshops and events offer a safe space within which all participants come together to be their authentic selves, learn from one another, and realize their potential as leaders and community members.

Workshop Topics

LFP follows a progressive workshop model; meaning that students must complete one workshop before they can build upon the content in the successive one.

1. Definitions of Success
2. Choosing a Relationship with Yourself
3. What’s Your Leadership Story?
4. Identifying Your Passion
5. The Tree of Life
6. Leadership Formation Experiences
7. Narrative Development
8. Narrative Presentation

Want to Join LFP?

The 2025 LFP cohort (2024-2025 academic year) is now being formed!

Interest sessions to join the 2025 cohort (2024-2025 academic year) will be held in Slavin 112 on:

• Monday, April 15th 6:00-6:45 PM
• Tuesday, April 16th 5:00-5:45 PM