Leadership Fellows Program

Meet this year's Leadership Fellows.

The Leadership Fellows Program at the University of Washington Foster School of Business offers select second-year MBA students with the unique opportunity to advance and refine their leadership and strategic thinking skills.

Permanently endowed by the Fritzky family, the Leadership Fellows Program now has consistent funding for the long run.

Benefits of the program

  • Gives training in leadership development strategies, models and methods of coaching.
  • Each fellow coaches and advises one or two teams of first-year MBA students per quarter to enhance leadership and strategic thinking capabilities.
  • Engages MBA students in a rigorous two-credit seminar course on leadership and coaching during autumn and winter quarters that exposes them to the latest work on leadership.
  • Participation in activities such as LEAD Week and leadership workshops.
  • Fellows work closely with each other in a supportive network to enhance one another’s leadership, coaching, and strategic thinking skills.

All fellows receive a $1,000 stipend fall and winter quarter for participating in this developmental experience.




My Fellows Experience

"Leadership Fellows has been a great opportunity for me to explore and develop my own leadership style." Matt Van Osdol (MBA 2013)

"The personal development gained through team interventions, peer coaching, and framework study has been invaluable." Galen Smith (MBA 2013)

Edward Fritzky
Ed Fritzky was elected chairman, chief executive officer and president of the Immunex Corporation, a biotechnology research company, in 1994. Under his leadership, Immunex grew to become the third largest biotech company in the world. Fritzky was recognized by Forbes in 2002 as a "Best Boss in America" and during his tenure, Immunex was recognized by Fortune as one of America's "Best Places to Work."

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