Welcome to the Institute of Leadership and Entrepreneurship! We are more commonly known within the College of Management as the ILE and have been serving the Georgia Tech community since 2006. The ILE is an interdisciplinary institute that encourages values-based leadership and socially responsible entrepreneurship. Through workshops, coursework, grants, and IMPACT lectures, the ILE empowers members of our community to take the economical, social and environmental impacts of their actions into consideration when making everyday business decisions. Bringing together students, researchers, business leaders, social proprietors, and other members of the global community, ILE's activities generate a unique and powerful synergy that stimulates change at the core-level.

A Brief History

The Institute of Leadership and Entrepreneurship came to formation during the summer of 2006 when founder Terry C. Blum was transitioning out of her seven year role as the Dean of the College of Management. As Dean, Dr. Blum was in a unique position of being able to look at the College of Management within the larger picture of the Georgia Institute of Technology. With this valuable perspective, she set out to fill in some of the gaps she realized existed. Dr. Blum wanted to focus on the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and leadership while encouraging collaborative pedagogy. When the ILE was founded, the IMPACT Speaker Series and the Leadership Roundtable were incorporated into the Institute and expanded. Over the last three years, the ILE has grown programmatically and extended its network of partners both within and beyond Tech's campus. The creation and secured funding for the new Cowan-Turner Program in Servant Leadership is the latest example of ILE's commitment to promoting and fostering socially responsible leadership at Georgia Tech.

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