Leadership Starts at the End of Your Comfort Zone

Molly Anderson.

Molly (Anderson) Oliver, Executive Director, Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness

Leadership begins where your comfort zone ends.

You can live life on autopilot and achieve some of your goals, or you can step out of your comfort zone and fulfill your leadership potential. Molly Anderson will share the wonderment and awe moments that helped her and others become better leaders and have happier, fun and more fulfilling lives.

Molly (Anderson) Oliver is executive director of the UB School of Management's Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness (CLOE). She is former president and CEO of Leadership Niagara, where she transformed New York State’s longest running community leadership organization into a nationally award-winning graduate level program. She has extensive management and leadership training, which began thirty years ago as program director of the American Management Association's Operation Enterprise program taught by a worldwide faculty of CEOs. Molly has traveled to 14 countries and recently initiated an educational partnership to develop a global center of leadership in Ghana, Africa. Her partnership in Russia, with educators and business leaders, has brought her there twelve times and has spanned two decades.