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Program Overview: Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Seattle Pacific University - YouTube
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(Rob McKenna) I often describe
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Industrial Organization
Psychology as
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one of the most powerful guilds
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in corporate America
you've never heard of,
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because professionals in
our field are responsible
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for the selection processes
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and who gets in the door
for those organizations
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and also the performance
management systems.
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So, how people are motivated
inside those organizations.
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When we launched our
program over a decade ago,
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we had this goal of, not
only providing a world-class
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education and preparation
for our students,
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but also- and training
in IO psychology,
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but also preparing
them as people.
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To have them, sort
of, get feedback
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and to understand
what it means to
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develop themselves
as they enter out.
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And when we launched
the program,
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we launched based on what
we call four pillars.
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These are really important
things for our guild
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but also really
important to understand
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the experience of
students in our program
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and one of those is research,
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another one is practice, what it
means to practice in the guild,
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another one is you.
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We call it "You" because
it's this idea that
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you are one of the most
powerful instruments of change;
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and then finally, the
issue of character,
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which we have found to be one of
the most important pillars of
the program.
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What does it mean for us
to be people of character
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and to ask some important
questions around what that
means.
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And those pillars still
stand as the foundation
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for our program today.
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(Dana Kendall) From the
beginning, our program has been
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founded on four pillars.
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And research is the
first of those pillars.
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Research is systematically
investigating
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human attitudes and behaviors.
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And the reason that
this is so important
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is because we need an
accurate picture of the world
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before we can be
making decisions
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about the welfare of
people in organizations.
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For most of us, it's
our natural tendency
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to fail to look at the
totality of evidence
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when we are
investigating the world
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and another thing that we do is
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we give too much weight to
certain pieces of evidence.
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And this results in kind
of a skewed perception.
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None of us are fully objective
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when we are looking
at the world.
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This is why we need sound
scientific methods
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because those provide a
check on our own biases
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so that we can do the
best that we can
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when we serve individuals
in organizations
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as scientist-practitioners
in the field.
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My goals as director of
research in this program
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is first to help students
be responsible consumers
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and producers of research,
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so that in the end,
we can make informed,
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accurate, wise, and
compassionate decisions
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when it involves the welfare of
individuals whom we serve in
organizations.
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(Paul Yost) One of the core
pillars of the SPU program is
practice.
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And practice is interesting
because it's a verb; it's not a
noun,
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and practice is something
you're gonna do a lot of
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as part of the SPU program.
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You will be practicing
building a training model
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that you offer.
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You will be practicing
working with real teams
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inside of our programs
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and as you're learning
organizational development,
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you will be applying
organizational development.
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There are questions
you can answer.
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So, for example, if you're
developing leaders,
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what are the three biggest
things you need to do?
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What are the critical elements
that really make a difference?
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There are two other
things you need to know
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as part of the IO program,
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number one is that we
are very challenging.
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This is not an easy program;
you will learn as part of it,
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and it will stretch you.
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You will also be surrounded by
professors who care about your
learning
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and by fellow cohort students
who are in it at the same time
you are.
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And you're gonna figure
it out together.
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Finally, what's important
in practice is
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we have this really rich
network of graduates
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at the Gates Foundation
and at Amazon
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and at Apple and several
other organizations
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in the local area and nationally
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who still feel like they're
part of the SPU community;
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who are part of our community.
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And so, those are folks you can
call up and ask advice for,
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those are folks who you can call
up for informational interviews,
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you can build on their network
during the program and when you
graduate.
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(Joey Collins) IO psychology
is a helping profession.
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It's a profession where you
are the tip of sphere.
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This works happens with
you, but often through you.
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And so it's important
that you develop.
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You'll be bringing to bear our
science as well as our practice
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to organizations that often
are at an inflection point-
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a place where if
they don't change,
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if they don't get the necessary
results, they may go away.
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Or the very things that they're
working on may not be effective.
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They may not develop the cure
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that might do anyway with a
particular disease, let's say
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or they might not develop a
technology that might make us
all
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more effective and be more
competitive in this world.
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But this all happens
through you.
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And so in our program, it's
really important that you
develop,
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self awareness is key.
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Right, it's necessary-
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and it's not just sufficient,
we need the science,
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but it moves into the
practice as well.
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And so self-development happens
through self awareness,
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your ability to self
regulate and self monitor,
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and then ultimately, as well, is
to be spontaneous in those
moments.
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We model this. We developed it,
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and then we also ensure that our
science doesn't stay in the
journals,
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but moves into places
where it gets applied.
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And that's where change happens.
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The final pillar of our
program is character.
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And character, for us, is not
just some ambiguous definition
of character,
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but we're talking about a very
specific way of showing up in
the world.
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We say that around
here, this means
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we're looking to
develop in ourselves
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and to develop in our students
a sacrificial character
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that has courage as a
part of who we are,
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but there's also this
willingness to sacrifice
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and we're often asked, "What
does it look like to study
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at a Christian university like
Seattle Pacific University?"
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and what that means is that
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we believe that God
sacrificed Himself for us.
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that He sacrificed His son
in the form of Jesus Christ
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for us: people who didn't
necessarily deserve that
sacrifice,
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and one way to describe
that is grace.
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That we would say that one
of the fundamental values
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around what it means to live
out character in our program
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would be to understand
my own need for grace
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and then offer that same
grace to other people.
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And also understanding what it
means to lead strong into the
world,
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but also to lead with the same
sacrifice that around here,
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we believe God
sacrificed for us.
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And so that's why character is
one of the primary foundations
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of what this is all about.
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(Emily Minaker) In one of my
first classes with Dr. McKenna
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he asked, "Do you want
to be happy or whole?"
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At first, I didn't
have an answer,
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but by the end of the class, I
knew that if I wanted to be
whole,
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I was in the right place.
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This program creates the
space for self reflection
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and has allowed me to become
more critically thoughtful
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of the world around me.
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The research that goes on
here inspires me daily.
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and it is humbling to work
alongside a group of incredible
individuals
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who are becoming strong
and connected leaders.
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(Stephanie Osterdahl) When I
started this program, I remember
saying
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that I didn't just
want to be good.
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I wanted to be great,
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but I didn't really know what
that was gonna look like.
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But, after reflecting back
on the last four years,
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two things really stand out to
me that this program has done:
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it pairs the what with
the why really well.
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The what comes through in
all the research projects,
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the rigorous courses
that we take,
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and all the application that
we do to real organizations.
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But the real differentiators
for me is the why.
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The time and the critical
thinking that I took.
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The reflection time to
understand who I am as a IO
practitioner
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and how I'm gonna impact the
lives of the people that I
reach.
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That's the differentiator that's
moved me from good to great.
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When we started, I really don't
think I could have imagined
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the impact of the program today.
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Our students are now in
every major corporation
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and organization
that I can think of.
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We have alumni who are
functioning in leadership roles
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in those different places.
But not only that,
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We now have alumni and students
who are engaging and working
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with populations of people
in our world who are
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oftentimes underserved
and ignored.
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Whether it's working with
Dalits, or untouchable,
populations in India
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or whether it's serving in
nonprofits in the United States
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that are trying to
understand how to solve
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some really challenging
social issues in our world.
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Our program has had
tremendous influence.
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And so it's been amazing
to watch the influence
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and what might come about as we
continue to graduate students
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of the highest character
and competence.
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Who will go out and
be leaders of change
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in some of the most powerful
institutions of our world.
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