Leadership Institute B

Leadership Institute B is our signature Leadership Institute curriculum with a focus on personal development for business leadership. This course, co-taught by Jack O'Toole, a Tuck alum and entrepreneur Jack O'Toole and wellness expert Jackson Penfield, will feature a rigorous hut-to-hut hike in the Presidential Mountains of New Hampshire in which students will work together to cover miles and ensure the group's success. 

Given the expertise of the instructors, this Leadership Institute will ask the questions: What is leadership? How can I understand my strengths as a leader and leverage them? What practices and resources can I draw on to improve my areas for growth? How can I collaborate effectively with people whose strengths are different than mine, especially when operating in ambiguous, rapidly changing or complex situations? 

Covering approximately fifteen miles of challenging hiking terrain over the course of three days, students will have the opportunity to summit multiple four-thousand-foot mountains in New Hampshire's Presidential Range, eat and sleep at the Appalachian Mountain huts iconic lodges, and glimpse views from above treeline in the only alpine zone in the Eastern United States.

Schedule

• Arrive to Dartmouth: Sunday, July 19
• First day of class at Dartmouth: Monday, July 20
• Transit to AMC Highland Center: Friday morning, July 24
• Hike from Highland Center to Lakes of the Clouds Hut (3.1 miles via Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail): Saturday, July 25
• Hike from Lakes of the Clouds to Mizpah Spring Hut (4.6 miles via Crawford Path): Sunday, July 26
• Hike from Mizpah Spring Hut to AMC Highland Center (2.7 miles via Crawford Path): Monday, July 27
• Transit back to Dartmouth: Monday afternoon, July 27
• Classes resume at Dartmouth: Tuesday, July 28
• Last day of class at Dartmouth: Thursday, July 30
• Depart from Dartmouth: Friday, July 31

While on the Dartmouth campus, Leadership Institute participants follow the same daily schedule as the Summer Scholars program.