Shape your world?

The tagline for the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management is "Discover this place. Shape your world." To people who are not here at Owen that might just be a tagline - but for us it is a way of life.

On the last day or Orientation, Dean Jon Lehman told our class two things:
1. Anyone could challenge him to anything, and if they beat him - he would immortalize them on a "roll of honor" in his office
2. Lets get coffee - He said that he would go to coffee with us anytime. (yes, Starbucks is right across the street - so close that we can catch the WiFi signal there)

Well, I wrote Dean Lehman an email and asked to take him up on #2 - to go to coffee and discuss an idea that I had. How many of us can say that we went to coffee with the Dean on the first day of classes? I can.

I pitched my idea to have a group of official bloggers for the business school - to share our experience with the world, specifically to have an unedited voice. After listening to me for 30 seconds, he said, "Done! I think thats a great idea and I will support that. What else do you have for me?"

This idea was built and approved on a Grande White Chocolate Mocha, and now we have a team of ten bloggers who will share their business school experience from different perspectives.

Thank you Dean Lehman for letting me "Shape my world!"