US Army- Launching a Corporate University

Launching the US Army's Corporate University began as an army-wide study, called the Army Training Leader Development Panel Study in 2001. It started with the army officers and then cascaded down to the civilian core. The civilian core part of the study was completed in 2003. What was discovered was that was there was no systematic, progressive, integrated way to develop civilian core leaders. Though there was leadership development then, it was segregated, developed by multiple organizations within the army, and was redundant. There was some goodness in what the army had, but it needed to be re-shaped into something that made sense when developing entry-level civilians to senior levels.




Beginning the leadership development program (LDP) spun off from this recommendation and later, when General Schumacher, Chief of Army Staff, came on board, he validated the need for this new system of developing leaders.




In 2006, another task force was started to look at how to develop the 21st century leaders. This also validated the need for a new way to develop leaders, and although the process of beginning an LDP had been started, the task force provided the additional funding needed to get it off the ground. Previous funding was not enough to sufficiently train and educate the 290,000 members of the civilian core.

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• Corporate
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• Learning
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