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For this project, students complete a Management Consulting Project or a New Venture Project. Both options provide students with the opportunity to apply the concepts they have learned in the program, while solving an existing issue or creating a new business opportunity.

This class teaches advanced leadership and coaching skills to Johnson Leadership Fellows as they, in their role as JLFs, guide first-year Core teams. Through this course, JLFs will develop skills for team coaching as well as hone personal leadership skills, influencing, effective feedback, listening, conflict resolution, and individual and team resilience skills. In addition the course serves as a confidential forum in which to process specific challenges that arise in the Core teams that the JLFs are coaching.

BR Consulting educates students on consulting through work on a project with a local company, non-profit or alumni run small company. The seven directors act as the partners of a consulting firm. Through this process they learn the aspects of running a consulting business and how to be a manager or above on a project. There are weekly meetings with the faculty for education, managing the business and reviewing consulting students projects. The student consultants apply in the fall to be a consultant. They take responsibility for finalizing the consulting project, conducting the work and delivering a final recommendation in the spring before graduation. There are six just in time education sessions timed to the specific point in their project. In addition, there a regular meetings with the directors and faculty. The students present their interim findings before winter break. Before they deliver the final presentation, there are multiple reviews and a case competition.

Big Red Microenterprise (BRM) is a student-managed, experiential learning opportunity overseen by the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise where graduate student coaches work with promising, but underserved, entrepreneurs in the local community to support inclusive wealth creation and economic development. Launched in 2009, BRM is a unique program which allows students to develop critical general management skills through engagement of real local companies that face acute operational and financial challenges which cut across all business functions. NOTE: BRM managers earn 3 credits per term; BRM coaches earn .5 credits per term.

The goal of this course is to promote an understanding of how internships contributed to personal as well as professional growth. Moreover, how the experience gained from an internship is different from any prior work experience.