Leadership in the Age of Personalization Docuseries

LAOP 2022 · No. 03

Navigating Uncertain Times

Wendy York

Dean, Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business, Clemson University (at the time of recording)

From the recording

We are equipping our students not just with skills and knowledge, but hopefully the ability to think and how to navigate when we're seeing things for the first time.

Wendy York

About this episode

Dean Wendy York opened the 2022 summit on Clemson's campus by naming what every leader in the room was feeling: unrest on every front, and power shifting from institutions to individuals. Employees want a say in where they work, patients in how care reaches them, students in how they learn. She described how the Powers College answers that for its 6,300 students, with signature programs they choose for themselves regardless of major.

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