We develop life-long, empathetic, energized student leaders & cultivate positive school climate & culture!

Overview

Student Leadership Education; this is what we are all about! Our leadership education is as innovative, revolutionary and developmentally appropriate as it is dynamic, impactful and life-long lasting.   After years of practice, research, and curriculum evolution, we have arrived.  Armed with award winning teaching and coaching experience, academic expertise in adolescent development, an energized high school student teaching team of over 100, established  success in New England schools, and a ginourmous mass of enthusiasm, we are here to educate and inspire entire classes of students and create our patented ELC Student Leadership Teams one school at a time.

Want to be a part of the Enjoy Life Club? Looking to create an energized, empathetic, and positive-attitude infused leadership team at your school? Have a vision for a permanently enhanced culture and climate in your school and community?  Hopkinton, MA (our birthplace) answered “yes to all!” and now they are one of the nation’s standards in positive student culture and climate.  Check out what viable and in-depth leadership education is all about…

Enjoy Life Club (ELC)

Students become members of the Enjoy Life Club upon graduation from our Leadership Academy.

The ELC is a nexus of students living with an inspired attitude to value themselves and recognize the best in others!  ELC students are driven to realize their passions and lead a healthful, empathetic and moral life. Internally motivated, Club members are dedicated to maximizing their potentials, empowering others to lead and helping people become the best versions of themselves. They understand that their enjoyment in life is in direct proportion to how much their life brings enjoyment to others.

ELC Member Core Values & Objectives

ELC Members are able to:

• Cultivate a strong awareness, appreciation, and understanding of self and others
• Uncover the lessons and potentials for growth in daily experiences both positive and negative and ultimately be thankful for all facets of life and people
• Live with positive energy and enthusiasm as they recognize and engage their passions in life
• Realize and embrace the importance of other people, learning to actively listen and share
• Activate the understanding that a life of genuine enjoyment is directly proportional to how much they make life enjoyable for others.
• Apply these core values to live an impacting, meaningful and enjoyable life as a positive leader

“When adolescents are given a voice in their leadership, properly educated and personally empowered, they will have the capacity and capability to make a positive and substantial cultural impact on their peers, teams, organizations, schools, families and communities!” ~Evren J. Gunduz, ELC Founder/CEO

ELC Leadership Academy

Our Leadership Academy is not the typical one  day workshop, 3 hour seminar,  or 1 school period long inspirational speech typically found in schools around the world in which the student’s motivation lasts as long as the presentation. Rather, the Leadership Academy is a fully invested, long term experience  that provides the guiding and supportive environment necessary for our students to cultivate positive leadership tools and expand moral capacities on their own as an interdependent and perpetual learning team. Continue reading for more about our revolutionary Leadership Academy…

ELC Leadership Academy Mission

Using our high energy, developmentally appropriate and engaging positive leadership curriculum, The Enjoy Life Club Leadership Academy’s mission is to educate, mentor, inspire and empower 8th-12th grade students to live with the core attitude that their value in the world is in direct proportion to what they give to others.

The forward thinking leadership curriculum educates adolescents on the arts of positive leadership, empowering others, maximizing personal potential, developing a positive attitude and growing as a passionate, charitable, moral and empathetic person. Students experience how living as a positive leader better’s the world and ultimately leads to a more fulfilled and enjoyable life!

ELC Leadership Academy Commencement

Upon completion of the ELC Leadership Academy, students graduate and become members of the Enjoy Life Club.  Utilizing their new leadership skills and attitudes, they ELC the world by designing and implementing an IMPACT Project that betters the culture and climate of their school or community.  Each Enjoy Life Club is able to share their IMPACT project with other ELC’s from across the country using various social network and media tools.  Through the web, ELC students share, interact with and learn from other Academy graduates to create a synergistic connection that transcends individual schools.

ELC Leadership Academy Facets

Large Group – up to 200 students run by Evren J. Gunduz

• High energy activities focused on positive leadership and attitude development
• Dynamic leadership demonstrations
• Inspirational videos ranging from Pixar clips to poignant sports stories
• Motivational talks and anecdotes based on real stories and experiences of the ELC founding members
• Impactful role plays which put students in charge of simulated leadership scenarios

Sections – 8-15 students run by a current high school or college ELC Student Teacher

• Group and individual activities focused on building moral capacity, uncovering passions, making healthful decisions, identifying good leadership, forging positive habits and developing empathy
• Interactive team-building games and activities which are fun, energizing and effective
• In-depth group discussions of leadership and analysis of real life leadership case studies written and mediated by the ELC high school student teachers

Session Missions - given out during the Academy as a short & meaningful assignment

• Each is designed with creativity and purpose to allow students to have fun with and learn about leadership outside of the Academy sessions!
• They are interactive, thought-provoking, take approximately fifteen minutes to complete and compel students to identify and think about leadership in their mainstream world.

ELC Leadership Academy Logistics

The Academy is a multifaceted and dynamic seventeen hour experience that may run over a long period of time with multiple 3-hour sessions over the course of a month, a full weekend (Fri. Sat. & Sun.) or as a hybrid of the two. The sixteen hours may be broken up by a school, summer camp or other institution in a way that best fits and we work closely with administrators, parents and students to customize a school’s most effective and efficient schedule. The Leadership Academy comes to your school and works with a large (up to 200) portion of your student body.  Our curriculum educates 8th-12th grade students and can be conducted during school, after school during the afternoon evening or on the weekends.

To view a sample of our leadership curriculum, a typical schedule or inquire about Leadership Academy sign-up, logisitics and cost for your school, please contact Evren J. Gunduz!

ELC Leadership Academy Commitment

The ELC Leadership Academy is committed to providing students with the ultimate and highest quality positive leadership education.  The Academy is designed, constructed and implemented by award winning  educator Evren J. Gunduz and the more than thirty committed ELC Student Teachers ranging in age from 13 to 20.  Each session is specially designed with purpose to bring students through a comprehensive learning and growth experience in which every theme, activity, talk and session builds upon the previous one.  Our Academy students learn from and grow with one another creating strong bonds upon which the foundation of leadership is built. The ELC Leadership Academy is established upon its research on adolescent development and true accounts of adolescent beliefs and practices. The ELC believes that when students are given both an in-depth education and a voice in their leadership, they are capable of making a substantial and positive impact on the world.

Not quite sure? The Leadership Academy is for all students who may…

• Have a desire to be a member of a positive and powerful leadership team in their school
• Possess interest in exploring and learning about their potential as a positive leader
• Want to work to improve their attitude and outlook on life
• Enjoy helping others and know specific friends or family they can support
• Have ideas and a desire to advance the culture of their class and school
• Aspire to have more intrinsic motivation and maximize their potential as students and people
• Desire to feel more inspired and become the best they are capable of being in school and life
• Wish to make an impact on themselves, their friends, school, community and the world