Ronald Heifetz, Co-Founder of the Center for Public Leadership and King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer of Public Leadership, uses experiential teaching methods like student case analysis—where students collaboratively develop and analyze cases drawn from their own work experiences—to promote deeper engagement and stronger retention of leadership concepts.
Lecturer Tim O’Brien’s 2016 doctoral dissertation analyzed the effectiveness of learning leadership through personal experiences (Heifetz’s course was among the data sources), and found it may depend on students' developmental capacity. Using Robert Kegan’s theory of adult development, O’Brien
Ronald Heifetz, Co-Founder of the Center for Public Leadership and King Hussein bin Talal Senior Lecturer of Public Leadership, uses experiential teaching methods like student case analysis—where students collaboratively develop and analyze cases drawn from their own work experiences—to promote deeper engagement and stronger retention of leadership concepts.