Allegacy Center for Leadership & Character Article Archives
School of Business Teaching Professor, Douglas C. Johnson, attended the 2025 US Naval Academy Leadership Conference along with students Allie Schmidt and Matthew Facchine. The theme of the conference was Authentic Leadership. “It was refreshing to attend a conference that was student organized and student led where over 300 delegates from 13 countries and over…
A national poll of 613 C-Suite to entry level business and nonprofit leaders reveals a significant gap in meeting the leadership needs of Gen Z (27 years old or younger) and younger Millennial (28-34 year old) leaders across diverse fields and industries. Over half of these younger leaders expressed dissatisfaction with the leadership in their…
ACLC’s Sean Hannah and John Sumanth, and School of Business faculty Sherry Moss, contributed to an article in the Harvard Business Review: Leaders Can’t Make Up for Bad Behavior by Being Nice Later. “Ultimately, leadership is not a balancing act between right and wrong – it’s about building trust through unwavering consistency. Read the Harvard…
ACLC Senior Research Associate Sean T. Hannah (Chair in Business Ethics, Professor of Management, Wake Forest University School of Business) and ACLC Research Associate John Sumanth (James Farr Fellow & Associate Professor of Management, Wake Forest University) together with Haoying Xu (Assistant Professor of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology) and Sherry Moss (Associate Dean…
On a beautiful fall day, School of Business faculty, staff and students were joined on the Farrell Hall terrace by staff from Allegacy Federal Credit Union to build 24 beds for families in need in our community, serving the nonprofit organization A Bed and A Book. In addition to serving children in Forsyth County who…
ACLC scholars gathered with ACLC Executive Director Pat Sweeney, ACLC Executive in Residence Jeff Triplette, and ACLC Affiliate Adam Holtzschue to kick off the program with teambuilding activities at Graylyn Conference Center. This is the program’s inaugural cohort. After introductions and an icebreaker, the team developed their unique definition of leadership: enabling, developing and inspiring…
The ACLC is very pleased to share that the Wake Forest University Board of Trustees just approved the promotion of Dr. John Sumanth to Associate Professor with tenure. John serves as Center Research Associate with broad areas of research interest and expertise in leadership, upward communication, trust and the role of power and status in…
To close out our sixth successful year of the Service Academy Leadership Conference program, the ACLC hosted a luncheon on April 12 to honor our 2019 student representatives. Dr. Pat Sweeney (Professor of the Practice of Management & Director, ACLC), Dr. Mark Evans (Associate Dean of the Undergraduate Program, Associate Professor of Accountancy) and Dr. Pat Dickson…
Stetson University hosted the Templeton Business Ethics Case Competition where 20 schools from across country participated on February 21-22, 2019. Wake Forest students, Rory Britt (’21) and Indy Cousin (’21) placed first in the Competition with Pennsylvania State University taking second place, Clemson University coming in third and Elon University securing fourth place. The top four teams received…
Saturday, April 6, 2019, in Farrell Hall, Dr. Patrick Sweeney, Professor of the Practice of Management and Executive Director, Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character, will deliver a session on “Developing a Leadership Philosophy” during the School of Business inaugural Alumni Weekend. During the session, Dr. Sweeney will lead alumni through a deep-dive process of…
Congratulations to Professor Sean Hannah (Professor of Management & Tylee Wilson Chair of Business Ethics Senior Research Associate) for being selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) (https://www.siop.org/). SIOP is a professional body of the 7000 plus members who do work in organizations/applied psychology. Most all leadership and organizational behavior…
Congratulations to Center Fellows Sean Hannah(J. Tylee Wilson Chair in Business Ethics; Professor of Management; Senior Research Associate, ACLC)andJohn Sumanth(Assistant Professor of Management & Organizational Behavior; Center Associate, ACLC; James Farr Fellow) who were recognized for their work throughout the 2017-2018 academic year in the areas of Teaching and Research. Sean Hannah | Research High Impact Scholarship…
To close out our fifth successful year of the Service Academy Leadership Conference program, the ACLC hosted a luncheon on April 19 to honor our 2018 student representatives. Dr. Pat Sweeney (Professor of the Practice of Management & Director, ACLC), Dr. Michelle Roehm (Vice Dean of Faculty, Peter C. Brockway Chair of Strategic Management, Professor…
On Friday, April 20th, 2018, the Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character hosted U.S. Representative for North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District, Virginia Foxx and her staff at Wake Forest School of Business for a yearly team retreat and leadership workshop. Foxx is a member of the Republican party and served as Secretary of the House…
On Wednesday, April 18th, 2018, the Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character hosted a lunch with Governor Bob Ehrlich for Wake Forest School of Business students including Ethics and Leadership Team members and recent and previous attendees sponsored by the Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character to attend the Service Academy Leadership Conferences. Governor Ehrlich…
On Monday, April 16th, 2018, the Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character, the Wake Forest Mental Health association and other campus partners co-sponsored former major league pitcher, John Trautwein, to speak to student athletes, staff, and faculty with a message of hope and strength. After losing his teenaged son, Will, to suicide in 2010, Trautwein…
On March 21, 2018, Robert “Bob” Reid, former president and CEO of Community One Bancorp visited Wake Forest School of Business as a guest speaker sponsored by the Allegacy Center for Leadership and Character. After meeting with 44 students in MIL124, he shared additional insights on leader development in an interview with the Allegacy Center…
On Monday, April 16th at 4pm, the ACLC and Wake Forest will welcome John Trautwein to Farrell Hall. Sure to be a powerful and inspiring message of hope, this event will be held in the Broyhill Auditorium and is open to students, faculty, staff and friends of the School of Business.
The Wake Forest Ethics and Leadership Debate Team competed at the national level in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl in Chicago, March 3rd and 4th, 2018. The event was sponsored by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics and included 35 other teams chosen through regional ethics bowl competitions. Through the two day competition, the Wake…
On February 22-23, 2018, Grace Colan, BEM ’19 attended the Air Force Academy National Character and Leadership Symposium in Denver, Colorado. This year’s main topic was “Ethics and Respect for Human Dignity” and speakers included the CEO of Boeing, a man who climbed Everest to the summit, a Holocost survivor who was nine years old…
