Ross Leaders Academy

The Program

The Ross Leaders Academy (RLA) is the Sanger Leadership Center’s premier leadership development community for select students across campus. During the year-long program, you’ll make leadership development a primary focus of your Michigan experience. You’ll learn from a diverse set of peers, receive team executive coaching, and engage with 30+ years of powerful research advanced by the University of Michigan’s innovative faculty. You’ll emerge RLA more confident, more insightful, and with a vision to fuel your emerging career.

RLA kicks off in the fall with an exciting event and wraps up in the spring with a closing celebration in Deloitte’s 37th floor D-Club in Detroit’s Renaissance Center.

RLA is made possible with generous support from the Deloitte Foundation, which is committed to enabling transformational learning experiences like RLA.

Get Involved

You can complete an RLA application, which is available at the beginning of the academic year. We select approximately 50 students competitively from across U-M each year. To learn more about our selection process, attend an info session that we will host in September 2018.

Program Type

Learning Community

Key Dates

2018-2019 Academic Year
Dates will be announced in August. Generally, we meet Fridays from 12-2 PM 12 times from October through April.

Time Commitment

RLA meets 12 times over the course of the academic year. Sessions are generally 2.5 hours long and may require reflection in between each, for a total of about 8 hours per month.

Executive coaching will be scheduled separately based on your availability.

Participant Requirements

• Deep interest in leadership development, personal growth, and lifelong learning
• Any U-M Student (Junior, Seniors, and Graduate students)
  We are aware that Ross full-time MBA1s will be unable to participate due to their MAP schedules. We welcome full-time MBA2s to apply.
• Ability to attend all sessions
  Participation in all sessions is integral to gaining the full benefit of the program. Students who miss more than two sessions will not receive the program completion certificate. We ask that participants bring conflicting dates to our attention during the kickoff event.