Societal Impact
Lead What's Next
You don't need to know exactly what you want to do at 18.
What matters is knowing that you want your work to matter.
LEAPS prepares you to understand complex challenges, bring people together, and turn learning into action—wherever your career takes you.
Leadership that Travels With You
LEAPS isn't designed to prepare you for just one career.
It's designed to prepare you to lead across careers, organizations, and communities.
You'll develop the ability to:
- Understand different perspectives
- Build relationships and trust
- Communicate clearly
- Collaborate across differences
- Navigate complex systems
- Solve problems creatively
- Lead change
- Learn and adapt
These skills matter whether your future is in education, business, healthcare, government, law, nonprofit work, technology, or a field that doesn't even exist yet.
Your Future. Your Path.
Your LEAPS experience can connect to many different futures.
- Interested in education?
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Explore how people, schools, and communities learn and grow.
- Interested in business?
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Learn how people and organizations work together to create change.
- Interested in public service?
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Develop the relationships and systems-thinking skills needed to address complex civic challenges.
- Interested in healthcare?
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Understand how people, organizations, and communities can work together to improve lives.
- Interested in law or policy?
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Develop the communication, analytical, and collaborative skills needed to navigate complex systems.
- Interested in something completely different?
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That's okay, too! LEAPS gives you a set of knowledge and skills you can apply to any field.
Five Pillars. One Experience.
LEAPS is more than five separate parts.
Living and Learning gives you a community.
Equity and Engagement teaches you to understand communities and perspectives.
Academics in Action gives you the knowledge and tools to approach complex problems.
Practice and Partnership gives you opportunities to put those skills to work.
Societal Impact is what can happen when you bring all of those experiences together.
What Will You Leave Michigan With?
A degree.
A community.
Professional experience.
Relationships across Detroit and beyond.
A deeper understanding of how people and organizations learn.
The confidence to work with people who see the world differently.
The skills to communicate, collaborate, and solve problems.
And the ability to imagine what could be possible—and help make it happen.