{"id":60,"date":"2018-05-31T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T20:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/events.wsu.edu\/excellence-leadership\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2018-06-20T15:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T22:41:30","slug":"overview-howard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/events.wsu.edu\/excellence-leadership\/overview-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Howard Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"builder-section-1528301122565\" class=\"row single h1-header gutter pad-top\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<h1>8 Ways to Accelerate Your Leadership Odyssey<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1527712950511\" class=\"row side-right gutter pad-top\">\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column one \">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-65 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct-396x495.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Howard, president, Robert Morris University\" width=\"396\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct-396x495.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct-792x990.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct-990x1238.jpg 990w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct-1188x1485.jpg 1188w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Christopher Howard<br \/>\nOctober 24, 2017<\/h5>\n<p>One of the nation\u2019s most dynamic and youngest college presidents visited the WSU Pullman campus to discuss the ways in which students, faculty, and staff can cultivate their leadership skills.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Howard, the president of Robert Morris University, spoke about \u201c8 Ways to Accelerate Your Leadership Odyssey\u201d during his keynote remarks. He shared his playbook for developing character-based leadership skills\u2014skills applicable to anyone, in any field, at any time, he told his audience.<\/p>\n<h5>About Christopher Howard<\/h5>\n<p>Howard is a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and earned a doctorate in politics as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. He also holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.<\/p>\n<p>Before being named the eighth president of Robert Morris in suburban Pittsburgh on February 1, 2016, Dr. Howard served 6 years as president of Hampton-Sydney College, a private, liberal arts college near Richmond, Va. Previously, he served as vice president for leadership and strategic initiatives at the University of Oklahoma, where he also served as the director of the Honors College Leadership Center and a President&#8217;s Associates Presidential Professor.<\/p>\n<p>Howard also enjoyed a successful career in the corporate world, working in General Electric&#8217;s Corporate Initiatives Group as well as Bristol-Myers Squibb\u2019s Corporate Associates Program<\/p>\n<p>He is the founder and a trustee of the Impact Young Lives Foundation, a nonprofit organization that brings South African college students of color to the U.S. for summer educational and cultural tours. His wife, Barbara Noble Howard, is the foundation&#8217;s executive director and a native of South Africa. The Howards have two sons, Cohen and Joshua.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='560' height='315' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ONqJ4_1X_6w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"\" class=\"column two \"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 8 Ways to Accelerate Your Leadership Odyssey<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-65 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct-396x495.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Howard, president, Robert Morris University\" width=\"396\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct-396x495.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct-792x990.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct-990x1238.jpg 990w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct-1188x1485.jpg 1188w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-events\/uploads\/sites\/2114\/2018\/05\/160309-Howard-Headshot-Rct.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Christopher Howard<br \/> October 24, 2017<\/h5>\n<p>One of the nation\u2019s most dynamic and youngest college presidents visited the WSU Pullman campus to discuss the ways in which students, faculty, and staff can cultivate their leadership skills.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Howard, the president of Robert Morris University, spoke about \u201c8 Ways to Accelerate Your Leadership Odyssey\u201d during his keynote remarks. He shared his playbook for developing character-based leadership &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/events.wsu.edu\/excellence-leadership\/overview-howard\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-default\">&raquo; More &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"template-builder.php","meta":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.wsu.edu\/excellence-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.wsu.edu\/excellence-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.wsu.edu\/excellence-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.wsu.edu\/excellence-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.wsu.edu\/excellence-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/events.wsu.edu\/excellence-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/events.wsu.edu\/excellence-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.wsu.edu\/excellence-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.wsu.edu\/excellence-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.wsu.edu\/excellence-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}