Green Bowl

What if we put the same energy, talent and competition into saving the planet as we put into football?

Green Bowl is a ten-week experience and competition for students who have a passion for protecting the planet. Students hone leadership skills that will help them influence the world and navigate organizations, while driving an initiative for the planet and competing for a $1,000 prize.

Benefits

Become a true leader in the environmental movement while cultivating job opportunities. Receive ongoing coaching and support from your peers and a panel of experienced professionals from the executive development and sustainability industries.

Program Requirements

Meet and work virtually in teams with other talented students from around the U.S.. Students must attend one 60-minute meeting each week, on a flexible schedule. Choose Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday starting at 10:00 PST. All students are expected to mobilize a team of at least three people, organize a project outside of class and demonstrate their impact.

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Spring: March 1 - May 15, 2022

There is no fee. College credit is available.

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What special skills do you bring as a leader? How can you influence people, mobilize resources or drive change?

What other leadership roles have you played? What impact did you have?

It’s about leadership

Each week we explore leadership topics, then go into work groups to help each other with our projects for the planet.

Week 1: Introduction and initial team building; Creative leadership — starting a journey as an innovative, purposeful leader; Leadership as influence — mobilizing and aligning resources
Week 2: Systemic awareness — understanding organizations, other leaders and their priorities; Wisdom — developing intuition about what is likely to work
Week 3: Finding Synergy — exploring your path forward with a group of collaborators; Risk Management — starting slow and innovating; Embedded learning — creating feedback loops for rapid innovation
Week 4: Mobilizing resources — recruiting a team, identifying talent and creating assignments; Bootstrapping — assessing and building upon current resources; Delegation and Follow Up — extending your influence and maintaining focus
Week 5: Strategy — devising and revising a fluid plan; Purpose and Goals — developing and articulating clear and compelling goals; Repeated Process — building a process for staying focused over time
Week 6: Vision: communicating a compelling vision that aligns with your unique mission; Influencing without authority — creativity identifying and mobilizing resources; Metrics — defining and measuring success
Week 7: Passion and Persistence — finding and communicating your personal energy; Resilience and Regeneration — staying healthy, persistent, focused on the long view; Support — finding people who keep you positive, energized, focused
Week 8: Polish and Presence — presenting a credible image; Trust — building relationships based on reliability, commitment, competence and care; Incremental Influence — finding the next "ask"
Week 9: Developing People — creating feedback loops; giving and receiving feedback; Finding and Recruiting Successors; Long-Term Planning — creating a structure and process that keeps the movement alive over time
Week 10: Competition — presentations and evaluation by panel of leaders from the sustainability industry.

Getting it done

As part of the process, students choose an initiative to drive in their area. Examples include the following:

Divestment: Persuade university president to divest from fossil fuels
Alternatives to single-use plastic: Mobilize a boycott of local restaurants that use single-use plastic; reward restaurants that implement alternatives
Green Hotels: Help local hotels install solar to meet their energy needs and implement changes to save energy or water
Green Hospitals: Plan and implement a waste-reduction program in a local hospital
Green Energy by Default: Start a campaign in your city to provide renewable energy by default (where consumers must opt out)

Coaches

The program is facilitated by Dr. Glenn Hallam, organizer of Green Wave, a networking event for sustainability leaders, and Dr. Paul Seymour, executive coach, with help from guest lecturers from the sustainability and executive development industries.