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CSL's Panel Model
Approximately 50 professionals participate on the Leadership Panels in each LYP – including 15 members of CSL’s Executive Advisory Board. Over 75% of the professionals (and 95% of the youth served) are African-American and Latino. Here's how the panels work: It's not the traditional lecture/'talking heads' model but a circular discussion that includes the youth. 5 panelists per session (for each of the ten LYP program sessions) talk for no more than a few minutes at a time (we 'Share the Stage' between panelists and the youth participants), and are supported by CSL instructors presenting the material in addition to other panelists.
CSL typically shares a leadership principle (e.g. ‘Make Peace With Disapproval’, ‘See Others as They Are, Not as You Are’, ‘Don’t Tie Your Self-Confidence to Your Performance’, ‘Lead 365 Days a Year, Not One Day 365 Times’) and then asks if one of the panelists would like to share an example of how they've practiced it in their career. CSL encourages the panelists to share their challenges – which makes them more human and enables the youth to relate to them much more (e.g. “Wow, I wouldn’t have imagined that someone who has achieved so much also had issues with self-esteem, dealing with disapproval or taking risks in their career.”) as much as their successes.
Our 50 professional panelists hold leadership roles in business, government and the non-profit sectors. Some of the represented organizations and companies are:
3E Company |
Ashoka Foundation |
Baweb Solutions |
Bohler Engineering |
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives |
College Bound |
Countrywide Financial |
Chicago Board of Trade |
Department of Homeland Security |
Dr. Don Roberts, DDS |
The Federal Reserve Bank |
Georgetown University Law School |
International Finance Corporation |
JP Morgan |
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools |
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship |
Inter-American Development Bank |
Organization of American States |
Otsuka America Pharmecutical, Inc. |
The Seed School |
Smith Barney |
UBS |
United Nations Foundation |
U.S. Trust |
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