KEVAN LAMM
Teaching
Throughout my career, I have been deeply immersed in the study of effective leadership worldwide, with a primary research focus on leadership development. My journey spans both academic exploration and practical experiences in various industries. The heart of my passion lies in empowering individuals to realize their leadership potential, enabling them to serve as dynamic leaders in their organizations and communities.
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To achieve this, I firmly believe in an applied approach to teaching, where theory meets practice. By seamlessly integrating behaviorist, experiential, and constructivist philosophies, I strive to create a nurturing environment that fosters meaningful learning for all. My ultimate goal is to help each individual harness their innate leadership capacity, catalyzing a ripple effect of positive change and growth in the wider world.
Communication and Leadership in Groups and Teams
Undergraduate level course designed to examine leadership as it relates to group and team behavior with a particular emphasis on the components of a group and team, establishing professional relationships amongst group and team members, improving the effectiveness of groups and teams, and developing appropriate communication strategies for working in groups and teams. The major objective of the course is to enhance students’ ability to successfully lead groups and teams within a variety of contexts.
Program Evaluation
Graduate level course designed to examine, identify, and select evaluation models, plan an evaluation, and collect and analyze evaluation data using qualitative and quantitative methods. The major objectives of the course are to help learners recognize the importance of high-quality program evaluation research and for learners to identify diverse program evaluation methodologies and describe appropriate contexts for application.
Supporting Others: A Path to Exceptional Leadership
Undergraduate level course designed to examine the role of supporting others in effective leadership practice. Topics focus on conflict management, fostering and enabling others, issue awareness, political process awareness, and recognizing values.
Extension Facilitation Capacities
Graduate level course designed to examine the relationship between extension personnel facilitation needs and abilities within an adult learning theory context. The major objective of the course is to enhance students’ ability to identify and empirically measure extension personnel facilitation capacity.
Extension Communication Preferences
Graduate level course designed to examine the communication channel preferences amongst extension stakeholders, specifically as it relates to community related information. The major objective of the course is to enhance students’ ability to identify appropriate communication channels based on audience characteristics.
Showing Up: Leading Through Action
Undergraduate level course designed to examine the characteristics of leadership through action. Topics focus on advocacy, assuming leadership roles and increasing involvement, mentoring, networking, expanding issue engagement, and serving as a resource.
Systems Thinking
Graduate level course designed to teach the higher-level principles of systems thinking as they apply to sustainable food systems. The major objective of the course is to enhance students’ ability to think about the complex intersections of systems and to consider systems when creating educational curriculum around wicked problems facing agricultural and environmental sciences.
Leading in Times of Change
Undergraduate level course designed to examine the principles of leading during periods of change. Change was broadly explored in terms of internal change, such as organizational innovation, as well as external change, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics focus on acting as a change agent, innovation, risk-taking, and self-efficacy.
Relationships and Character: Fundamental Components to Effective Leadership
Undergraduate level course designed to examine the relational and character related topics associated with leadership. Topics focus on individual confidence, empathy, ethics, initiative, integrity, life-long learning, motivation, self-awareness, as well as understanding and appreciating diversity.
Soybeans to Stock Markets: Learning to Think in Systems
Undergraduate level course designed to examine the characteristics of systems and system dynamics. Topics focus on describing the system’s view, developing a vocabulary for describing systems, developing tools to think in systems, and different system archetypes.