Grow your potential as a dynamic leader!
Future Leaders: Personal Leadership Planning and Skill Development is a course designed specifically for high school students enrolled in UConn's Pre- College Summer program. Throughout the course, students will engage in group discussions, lectures, leadership development activities, class projects, a challenge course, and hear from guest speakers. The course’s aim is to create and enhance awareness of student’s personal leadership strengths, unique styles, values, identities, as well as group dynamics and effective communication. This course will challenge students to think of their personal styles, as well as to think critically about their role as leader in the current and future spaces.
Sessions Offered
Storrs Session 2:
July 5, 2026 - July 11, 2026
Course Fees
Format
Non-Credit
This class is meant to be immersive and students will experience:
- Group work and individual reflection
- Low stakes public speaking and intrapersonal communication activities
- Leadership simulations
- Soft and hard skill development activities
- Team building at our outdoor ropes course
Meet the Instructor
Tiffany Hoxie, MSMOL
Interim Director of Leadership and Organizational Development, UConn
Tiffany Hoxie began her journey in education 18 years ago, working primarily in Youth Development and Early Childhood Education. Tiffany holds an associate degree in early childhood education and a bachelor's degree in child studies. Invested in the non-profit sector while in college, Tiffany climbed the ladder to Director of Education with the Boys & Girls Club organization, where the passion and desire for working with underserved and often unseen communities was born. This is also the time when the seed for leadership and organizational development was planted.
Tiffany achieved a Master of Management and Organizational Leadership in 2015, and that time, the pivot into higher education and entrepreneurship occurred. She pursued an entrepreneurial path that focused on “quality educational services from baby and beyond”. Additionally, she was the Assistant Director of Early Childhood and Child Studies programs at a state university, and currently serves as the Interim Director of Leadership and Organizational Development at UConn. In this role, she oversees a unique set of programs including the Cohen Leadership Scholarship program, Student Leadership Awards, Leadership Certificate Series, and the Four Arrows Challenge Course. She also teaches UNIV courses, facilitates career and leadership workshops, and serves as a support for students.
In addition to her role at UConn, she is an adjunct professor at external colleges, focusing on courses related to childhood education, career development, and business. Tiffany is passionate about ensuring that all students have access to a quality and equitable education.
