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The titles listed on this guide are suggested reading for students taking the Humanities Leadership Development course or students participating in the Living Leadership Program who wish to complete a self-directed requirement by reading a recommended leadership text.
Contact Stephanie Quirk, Ph.D., Coordinator of Student Life & Adjunct Faculty, Humanities, for more information.
Recommended Book List
Leadership for College Students
Exploring Leadership for College Students who want to Make a Difference Student Workbook by Publication Date: 2013
The Leadership Challenge by Publication Date: 2007
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence by Publication Date: 2002
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: A Guide for Students by Publication Date: 2015
Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow by Publication Date: 2009
General Leadership Interest
On Becoming a Leader by Publication Date: 2003
Leadership Influence
How Successful People Lead: Taking Your Influence to the Next Level by Publication Date: 2013
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Publication Date: 2022
Start with why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Publication Date: 2011
Ethical Leadership
Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right by Publication Date: 2010
Leading through Change or Crisis
Leading Change by Publication Date: 1996
Leading Continuous Change: Navigation Churn in the Real World by Publication Date: 2015
Servant Leadership
The Power of Servant-Leadership by Publication Date: 1998
Strengths-based Leadership
Now, Discover Your Strengths by Publication Date: 2001
Leadership Activism
Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Publication Date: 2021
How to Be an Antiracist by Publication Date: 2019
Leadership Psychology
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Publication Date: 2008
Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates us by Publication Date: 2011
Leadership Interfaith
Interfaith Leadership: A Primer by Publication Date: 2016
Other Perspectives - Leader Memoirs and Teachings
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Publication Date: 2016
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance by Publication Date: 2016
Learning from Lincoln Leadership Practices for School by Publication Date: 2010
The Radical King by Publication Date: 2015
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Publication Date: 2013
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Publication Date: 2007
Living Leadership Program
The Living Leadership Program is a free non-transcript certificate program at College of DuPage focused on developing students into active leaders and positive change-makers. Students may begin the program at any time and completion of the requirements is self-paced.
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