President's Message

Since its founding in 1969, LIOS Graduate College (formerly the Leadership Institute of Seattle) has shaped its distinctive curriculum around the most effective and ethical expressions of leadership. In both our degree programs and our professional trainings, we have continually tested and improved these ideas and ideals in the demanding crucible of experiential education. The result has been thousands of graduates who are having a profound impact on the world, both locally and globally.

LIOS Graduate College of Saybrook University continues to attract men and women who possess a strong sense of self and the intention to make a difference in their personal and professional contexts. Our experiential learning approach amplifies the leadership capacity and signature presence of those who choose LIOS. This hands-on, real-time methodology helps our students to develop the intellectual and emotional foundations needed to transform human relationships, the life blood of every organization, in productive and sustainable ways.

If you are in search of professional success, personal fulfillment and a transformative education, you are a candidate for the LIOS graduate degree and/or professional training programs. The leadership skills taught at LIOS are essential to the development of our community, organizations and businesses. In our complex world, organizational and community life continues to grow more global and virtual, more multifaceted and multicultural. Additionally, the systems in which we work and live are almost daily challenged by change and crises. Authentic leadership skills of the kind taught at LIOS Graduate College are key to our success as a planet, offering alternatives to the reactivity and involuntary behaviors that can block human communication and connection.

We take great pride in our graduates because we believe they carry a unique proficiency for seeking creative possibilities and effectively engaging dilemmas, managing polarities and resolving problems, whether in the context of family or marriage therapy, corporate teamwork, community development ...or global diplomacy. LIOS leadership skills make a difference.

LIOS learning demands much, but it is the kind of adventure that changes your mind and your life by touching your heart and soul. We invite you to choose one of our educational paths. It will lead, we believe, to a successful future in advancing just and sustainable human systems.

Sincerely,

Sheldon Drogin, Ed.D.