Life Design Course
We teach our students to think and work by providing them with the tools and skills needed for a 21st century workforce.
What if we could also offer them a road map for life?
What if we could help them develop the skills needed to successfully navigate what inevitably will be forks in the road and major decision points. What if we could help them make the kinds of decisions that lead to a more fulfilling and meaningful life by building and creating a successful and rewarding future? We can begin early with a successful life design road map.
To that end, we have developed a curriculum that provides young people with a path on how to make a successful life, not just a living. It focuses on questions such as “Who am I?” “What do I want to do?” and “Where do I want to go and how do I expect to get there?”
The source material for the course is my two books, “On The Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom” and “The Island of the Four Ps: A Modern Fable About Preparing for Your Future.”
I am the son of a Syrian immigrant and was bounced from foster homes to orphanages, facing hardships and struggles. But through education and quality mentors, I was able to break the cycle. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester, graduated with distinction from Harvard Business School, served in the U.S. Navy, and spent 50 years as an executive on Wall Street with some of the most well-respected firms, such as E.F. Hutton, Lehman Brothers, ING Barings, and Furman Selz.
Although most of my business life has been on Wall Street, I am also passionate about teaching and education. I believe education is the solution to almost everything, if not everything.
He was board chairman for a prominent independent college preparatory day school, president of the Alumni Association of the Harvard Business School and chairman of the Board of Trustees at the University of Rochester. From these experiences, he has developed a template for a course that is already being used at several universities.
We hope to continue the conversation of bringing the Life Design course to you or your school. This curriculum encourages students to design a life, not just earn a degree. It could add another dimension to a university education. This not only helps students with their lifelong career management, but also individual development.
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