New And Improved ILA Briefing
The monthly ILA Briefing has a new face for the new year! It will now be combined with the bi-annual LEADER'S EDGE newsletter for a comprehensive monthly account of ILA activity. In addition to the news normally reported in the briefing, there will be special features each month on faculty, staff and students of ILA as well as corporate and community involvement with the program. Just look for the More button for these in-depth articles about the many happenings at ILA.

ILA Spring Calendar  More
February 1, 2005 ILA Corporate Partner Board Meeting, 7:30 - 9:30 am, Terry College of Business Atlanta Executive Education Center, Atlanta, Georgia

February 24, 2005 Careers in Consulting Panel, Co-Sponsored by the UGA Career Center, 5:00 pm, 150 Student Learning Center, UGA Campus

April 12, 2005 ILA Executive Leadership Speaker Major General Janet A. Hicks, Commanding General of US Army Signal School and Fort Gordon, 4:00 pm, 171 Student Learning Center, UGA Campus

April 29, 2005 Maximum Impact's "The Influential Leader", 9:00 am - 5:00 pm at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta

May 16-18, 2005 3-day Teaching Leadership Workshop, Terry Atlanta Executive Education Center, Atlanta, Georgia

Community Connections
This section will feature regular information on the many community service activities of the ILA. The Institute for Leadership Advancement seeks to create a strong community service and outreach component with its program and students. We have recently updated our website to highlight this as a major component of the Institute. You can visit here to see our general and program specific activities.

This month will highlight the in-class activities of our leadership students. Service learning projects are often a large part of ILA courses. The professor challenges groups of 5-6 students to create and implement a meaningful semester-long community service activity. Over the years, projects have been very creative and made a significant impact in the Athens community. Click on the sites below to see these innovative and meaningful projects. A more in-depth look at a project conducted by L.E.A.D. Students for a family in New York will be forthcoming. It will show the vast scope of the project and let you know the impact it has had since implementation.
*Leadership Scholars Class Service Learning Projects
*L.E.A.D. Students Class Service Learning Projects

Practically Speaking
Practically Speaking will now be appearing periodically in the Leader's Edge. This series of articles will show you the latest in leadership information and how to put it into practice. Each article showcases the excellent faculty at the Terry College of Business while highlighting cutting edge leadership research.

The first article highlights Dr. Elena Karahanna, an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems and Director of International Business Programs at the Terry College of Business. Dr. Karahanna completed her undergraduate and graduate work at Lehigh University and her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. She received the University of Georgia Teaching Excellence Award in 2003. Read Dr. Karahanna's research "Effective CIOs Need Time To Make A Difference" .

ILA Photo Gallery
Check out pictures from the Fall semester in review.

Pandora Outstanding Senior Leader
Onyema Anene, (Risk Management and Finance) a Senior L.E.A.D. Certificate student has been named a Pandora Outstanding Senior Leader for the 2005 Pandora Yearbook. Onyema was chosen because of her involvement in making UGA and the surrounding community a better place.

Hail and Farewell
The ILA L.E.A.D. Program recognized those students who received their leadership certificates upon graduating last fall at the semi-annual Hail and Farewell ceremony. It was held on December 10, 2004 in Brooks Hall and included members of the faculty and staff, as well as graduates and current L.E.A.D. students. The graduates were: Amanda Bauer (Finance), Jonathan Hart (Marketing), Scott Richardson (Finance and Real Estate), Sarah Roberts (Management), Adon Solomon (Finance), and Matthew Wren (Finance).

UPCOMING L.E.A.D. EVENTS
The LEAD Program will be contributing to the tsunami relief effort in the coming months by donating supplies and goods to those who have been affected by this disaster. More information about how you can participate in this effort will appear next month.

Amazing Students!
Junior David Carswell (Finance), recently featured on the UGA web site homepage, enjoys taking what he has learned in the classroom and teaching it to others throughout the UGA and Athens community. He reestablished the Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) organization on campus, which is teaching important concepts through educational outreach projects, including market economics, entrepreneurship, personal and financial success, and business ethics. Carswell, a member of the Class of 2006 and a Management major, has implemented leadership skills that he acquired in the Leonard Leadership Scholars Program to lead SIFE and many other campus organizations.

The final phase of guest speakers for Pat Pittard's "Lessons in Leadership" class were Bill Griffin, Former CEO of Lender's Service, Inc.; Carlene & Andy Ziegler, Chairman and CEO, Artisan Partners; and Michael Coles, President and CEO, Caribou Coffee. The executives shared life experience stories that will tremendously benefit the students in future endeavors of their own.

Michael Lage (Marketing), Leadership Scholar, Class of 2005 ~ To say I had a remarkable experience as a summer intern in the Marketing department at Chick-fil-A, Inc. would be a major understatement. Chick-fil-A is truly a one-of-a-kind company, a business committed to solid principles while still being amazingly successful. More