Lead & Volunteer

Read & Lead

Read & Lead is a program for students and staff to further develop their personal leadership knowledge by reading contemporary leadership books. Participants sign up to read the selected book and then attend a complimentary lunch in the HSC Student Union to discuss the reading.


Thursday, November 20 @ 11:30 AM

The Power of You: Navigating Leadership, Ethics, and Resilience in Healthcare
Darbi Crist, instructor in the Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing, presents “The Power of You: Navigating Leadership, Ethics, and Resilience in Healthcare” as part of the Leadership Lunch Series. This session helps future health sciences professionals build character, competence, and moral resilience. Learn to navigate challenges through ethical...

How to Participate

  1. Sign-up! Books will be limited to the first 35 people to sign up in the Health Campus Student Union, Suite 300. Student Affairs is open from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Be sure to sign up early, books often go very quickly. Due to the limited numbers of books, we request no more than two faculty/staff per department sign up.
  2. Enjoy reading!
  3. Join us for a complimentary lunch and book discussion.

Prior Read and Lead Selections

  • True North by Bill George
  • Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
  • My Friend Fear by Meera Lee Patel
  • Find the Good by Heather Lende
  • The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
  • The Crossroads of Should and Must by Elle Luna
  • Habitudes: The Art of Leading Others by Time Elmore
  • Wellbeing by Tom Rath
  • Serial Winner by Weidel
  • Small Changes, Big Results by Krieger
  • Lean In by Sandberg
  • Training Camp by Gordon
  • Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
  • Now, Discover Your Strengths by Buckingham & Clifton
  • If Disney Ran Your Hospital by Fred Lee
  • Decide by Steve McClatchy
  • Everyday Etiquette by Patricia Rossi
  • Unthink by Erik Wahl
  • The Red Rubber Ball at Work by Kevin Carroll
  • Successful Failure by Devery Youngblood
  • Good Boss, Bad Boss by Robert Sutton, Ph.D.
  • The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
  • Talk Less, Say More by Connie Dieken
  • StandOut by Marcus Buckingham
  • Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard by Heath and Heath
  • Strengths Based Leadership by Rath and Conchie
  • Soup by Jon Gordon
  • Squirrel Inc. by Stephen Denning
  • The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn
  • Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct
  • Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
  • Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
  • Emotional Intelligence 2.0
  • The Power of Less
  • A Peacock in the Land of Penguins
  • Strengthsfinder 2.0
  • The Last Lecture
  • Vital Friends
  • How Full is Your Bucket