Nick Druzinski

MissionStatement:"Tomakeadifferenceinindividual'slivesone
dayatatimebyprovidingskilledservicesandleadership
qualities."

Year 1
Year 5

I will become a Level I fieldwork

educator in order to share my
knowledge and experiences as
an OT.
I will become the therapy
manager at my work site,
allowing me to demonstrate my
leadership abilities and
interpersonal skills.

Year 10

I will become the owner of a

pediatric outpatient clinic,
allowing me to lead an ITD
team, make managerial
decisions, and create my own
brand.

Thelionhasmanysymbolicmeaningswhichincludewisdom,strength,and
courage,allqualitiesthatIpossess.Inordertobecomeasuccessfulleader,
thesearequalitiesthatImustpossessinordertofulfillmyrolesasaleader.

Artifact

Five Strengths

1. Competition: I am motivated to be
the best and most successful in
whatever I do.
2. Significance: I can encourage
optimism to other individuals around
me.
3. Command: In order to become a
successful leader, I must take
During my fourth semester, I
control of a situation and make
attended a meting with Senator
ethical decisions.
Aaron Ford advocating for children
4. Restorative: To be a successful
being bullied in schools. Attending
and courageous leader, I must be
and speaking during this meeting
good at figuring out what is wrong
took a lot of courage and inner
and resolving it quickly.
strength on my part because I was
5. Relator: I must work well with
speaking on behalf of not only Touro
others to achieve a common goal.
Leadership Theory
University, but children being bullied.
The approach that best fits me is the authentic
In this meeting, we discussed
leadership approach. This approach emphasizes
building a leader's legitimacy through honest
possible programs or strategies that
relationships which value their input and are built
could possibly be implemented in
on an ethical foundation (Fusco, O'Riordan, &
elementary schools to reduce the
Palmer, 2015). Similar to myself, this approach
describes leaders as individuals who are aware of
occurrences of bullying. This artifact
their strengths, limitations, and emotions.
represents my brand because it took
Authentic leaders are mission driven and focused
courage and strength to speak to a
on results, which is similar to my brand, the lion,
which encompasses inner strength and courage.
state legislator, and wisdom to
One weakness with this approach is that individuals
explain why this epidemic is so
may come off as rude and egotistical due to the
fact that they are saying and doing what they feel
important to be resolved. In the
is right. Some ways to prevent this is to
future, I will continue to demonstrate
communicate appropriately, actively listen, and find
courage, wisdom, and strength in
alternatives to problems (Gruenfeld & Zander,
2011). This approach reflects me because it shows
order to provide effective therapy
that a leader must work well with others, and be
experiences for all of my clients.
confident and courageous in order to successfully
be a leader.

References

Fusco, T., O'Riordan, S., & Palmer, S. (2015). Authentic leaders are... conscious, competent, confident,
and congruent: A grounded theory of group coaching and authentic leadership development.
International Coaching Psychology Review,10(2), 131-148.
Gruenfeld, D. & Zander, L. (2011). Authentic leadership can be bad leadership. Retrieved from
https://hbr.org/2011/02/authentic-leadership-can-be-ba
Rath, T. (2007). Strengths finder 2.0. New York, NY: Gallup Inc.