Workshop Series: Reflections on an Emerging Leadership Journey

Defense Date April 1, 2025 Candidate Name Sanjay Paul Personal Email Address [email protected] First Advisor Dr. Emile Hawkins Second Advisor Dr. Debra Dean DSL Final Project Abstract Project Type Global Conference Presentation Project Overview Reflections on an Emerging Leadership Journey is a PowerPoint presentation (of approximately 3 hours and 15 minutes) which designed to connect glo al interests in a way that can share best practices across an interdisciplinary front. Sanjay Paul shares ideas, observations, educational, volunteer, and professional experiences, along with his growth in the leadership journey. This journey can serve as a catalyst for others who are on similar leadership journeys or who want encouragement in pursuing their unique interests in benefit of their societies and the world at large. Project Themes The PowerPoint presentation consists of 17 parts. Within these 17 parts, interdisciplinary themes related to sociology, psychology, politics, economics, philosophy, and more are covered. An original “Certainty-in-Chaos” Ethical Model, along with proposing a “fluid form of government” which can help individuals, students, government officials, policy makers, educators, though leaders, and others to partake in the dialogue of sharing best practices from around the world to improve opportunities for citizens of their respective countries. In the final part, a foray into the entertainment direction is suggested as a way to promote individual empowerment and to raise awareness for social causes. Artistic, intellectual, motivational and other expressive fronts are encouraged as a means of encouraging participants to pursue hobbies and interests as a way of enhancing their professional interests. Participants will be encouraged throughout the Presentation to share original ideas in relation to the content being presented. Contributions to the Field of Leadership Reflections on an Emerging Leadership Journey will encourage students, individuals, and professionals from a variety of fields to view reflect on how their own emerging or leadership journey could be viewed from an interdisciplinary manner. Participants will be able to see how they can share best practices from various ideological standpoints and disciplines and learn how they can apply existing and original ideas in a way that can help them to improve personally, educationally, professionally, and socially. Real-world Implications The primary purpose of this project was to encourage individuals to grow in their leadership journey in an interdisciplinary manner, by galvanizing individuals for the betterment of humanity.