Why you should apply to be a Leadership Consultant!

While I'm more of a newbie at this whole consulting thing there are a few lessons I have learned during my months on the road.  I think every Alpha Delta Pi woman should apply even if it's been a fleeting thought once upon a time.  Just do it and take the chance by applying.  

Here are some reasons why you should apply:

10. Applying for the position is great life experience outside of Alpha Delta Pi realm.

9. You get to know the District Team on a whole different (and most of the time) better level than as a collegian.

8. You meet ALL the sisters all the time and love every minute

7. You learn how to pack two suitcases right under the 50 lbs mark every time (and now you're a pro at going through TSA)

6. Alpha Delta Pi may mean a lot to you now but during this position I have learned how much this organization has touched our sisters across the nation.  I've lived and learned from our open motto: "We live for each other" and I've found this to be a binding factor between all sisters.  

5. When else are you going to be able to travel like this?

4. You get to people watch in the airport

3. New adventures

2.  More importantly, new challenges around every corner

1.  Hello dream job!

Now, I'm not going to lie and say it's the easiest or even the most exciting job in the entire world.  Sometimes you just want to sleep without setting an alarm or get a pedicure at your own free will.  It can be hard to be around women with whom you share a sisterhood but to not be known outside of your Leadership Consultant title.  Regardless of the difficulties, this is the most rewarding, challenging, incredible, life-changing, and empowering job I could have ever hoped to have right after graduation.  I have grown as a leader, as a sister, and as a woman from my interactions with others while on the road.  This job has helped solidify my personal values and to learn to rely on others in my time of struggle and need.  

I am blessed to have been chosen to serve as a 2013-2014 Leadership Consultant and thank my lucky stars every day!!!

Apply here: https://www.scholarselect.com/scholarships/10327-2014-2015-leadership-consultant-application

November and December schedule

Here's my schedule for November and December!

Start November off at Vanderbilt University: Zeta Rho Chapter

Head down to Tulane University for installation weekend with two other consultants!

Travel up to our Eta Eta Chapter at South Dakota School of the Mines

Leave American soil for the first time to visit our Beta Theta Chapter at University of Manitoba

End the month of November at my first visit of the semester with our Epsilon Epsilon at Texas Tech University! So excited to be back!

Had back from Thanksgiving break to Mercer University in Macon, Georgia: Beta Sigma chapter

This will end my travels of my first semester as an Alpha Delta Pi Leadership Consultant! 

October schedule

Here's where I'll be traveling in October!

Started the month at Eta Gamma Chapter at Austin Peay State University

Then head way out west to our Eta Kappa Chapter at University of California San Bernardino

Then have a opportunity to work with one of our newer chapters for recruitment at Santa Clara University-Theta Pi Chapter

Not only do I get to help with a first time Recruitment, I also get to help with a first time initiation at Mississippi State University- Epsilon Eta chapter

Later my boss emailed myself and another consultant to inform us we would be heading to Oxford, Mississippi for Colony retreat at Ole Miss!

End the month of chapter visits at Delta Delta Chapter at the University of Arkansas! Only two hours away from my family.

Finally, I had to Arizona to spend Halloween with my sister and her husband and two kids.

I get the opportunity to work with four other consultants during this month and I couldn't be more excited!

September Schedule

First off, I apologize for not blogging as much as I want to!  It's killing me probably more than any of the readers.  However, I wanted to post my September schedule since this month has started and then promise to update about my August visits soon!

Starting off the month (and that visit is already over) at Delta Rho Chapter at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg,Pennsylvania 

Next up to Zeta Phi Chapter at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina

Back to Iowa to Alpha Beta Chapter at Iowa University in Iowa City, Iowa

Way up north to Gamma Tau Chapter at University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont.  This is one of my consultant sisters chapter of initiation so I'm beyond excited to get to know her chapter sisters.

Then to my favorite state of Rhode Island to work with our Gamma Lambda Chapter at the University of Rhode Island.  Seriously, this is my favorite state so I'm beyond jazzed to visit here!

Finally I round out the month at our Eta Gamma Chapter at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

There ya go the month of September in one kit and kaboodle!  By the end of September I will have traveled in all six of Alpha Delta Pi's Districts!

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A day in the life of a Leadership Consultant at training

We start the morning around 6 or 7 depending on if we want to go for a run or workout before training.  

Leave the bunk room to shower and get breakfast.

We smoosh into this bathroom to get our mirror space to look presentable for the day.  

Leaving the bunk room we come to the foyer and main area in between all of the bedrooms.  

Grab some breakfast.  Note: This is also the place where we eat lunch and dinner in no time flat.  

Head down the stairs (there's Morgan snapshotting with Maxine Blake).

Walk along our daily commute across the loggia.  Seriously the most beautiful commute!

Down some more stairs.  You would think my legs would be super toned by now (they're not).

Down another hallway past the Alpha Delta Pi Foundation group!  Love them!

Then finally make it to the training room.  Typically, training starts around 9 am in our home away from bunk room the Training Room.  The length of training varies per day depending on the subject matter.  What doesn't vary is how sick we are (in the most loving way possible) of living in this room.

Sometimes if we have a night off, we'll leave the house for a couple of hours.  Or more than likely we'll disperse around the house and work on our ADPi homework.  Here are some of our favorite spots!

Kitchen sitting area next to the kitchen

The archives room with a wreath of the founders' hair.  Yep, that 'U' shaped thing in the background has actual tufts of hair from our founders.

We also will hang out in the bunk room or training room.  Really just anywhere we can send introduction letters, catch up with friends and family, or have a conference call.

We did make it out of the house for Braves game though!!  

Through the entire game it was extremly difficult for me to not GO ROYALS!!!  #ibleedwhiteandblue

Life here at Executive Office Memorial Headquarters is exciting, fast-paced, and a little tiring (but worth it)!

Back to our roots- Road trip to Macon

During training the Leadership Consultants had the opportunity to travel to the birthplace of Alpha Delta Pi in Macon, Georgia.  In Macon there are many significant locations for members of Alpha Delta Pi including Rose Hill Cemetery where our founder Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald is buried.

All of the Leadership Consultants graveside with Miss Eugenia.
Bottom: Lauren, Courtney, myself, Morgan, Haley, Katie  
Top: Katherine, Kashia, Logan, Caroline

Another photo op for the Leadership Consultants!

Left to right: Kashia, Grace, Morgan, Katherine, Caroline, Logan, Courtney, Haley, Lauren, Katie

Found this at the cementary and loved it so much I made the van stop so I could take a picture. 

After Rosehill Cementary we made our way to the Cannonball House after making a roadside stop to see the sight of the first Alpha Delta Pi Convention.  The Cannonball House is home to many old articfacts from Wesleyan Female College where Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Mu were founded.  Both the Adelphean (Alpha Delta Pi) Society and the Philomathean (Phi Mu) society have a founder's parlor which holds pictures of our founders.  The front also has a beautiful porch and a cannon because the house was hit by a cannonball (hence the name).  

The site of the first convention!

Inside the Founder's Parlor with the classic hug train!

With the cannon out front of the house!

Another photo op in front of the house!

Finally, we were on our way to Wesleyan Female College which was the first college to grant women degrees and the home of Alpha Delta Pi Alpha Chapter.  While they no longer have greek life at Wesleyan, Alpha Delta Pi still has a special place on the campus.  Sororities were abolished by the Board of Trustees in 1914 but the remaining women in the sororities were allowed to hold meetings until they graduated.  At the time of the closing of greek life there were four sororities on campus, Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Delta Delta, Phi Mu, and Zeta Tau Alpha.  In the 1917 yearbook, the sorority women wrote about the death of the sorority.  Please read this passage below.

Let those who have tears prepare to shed them now, for the following dolorous lines will cause even the most granite-hearted to become lachrymose and bathe themselves in melancholy drops.  Sororities are dead at Wesleyan.

They passed away very suddenly in the spring of nineteen fourteen, and for three long years they have been lying in state in their respective halls.  The final interment will take place this commencement with the passing of the nineteen seventeen sisters.

The coroner's inquest held at a post mortem examination revealed the deplorable fact that they had been taken unawares and maliciously murdered by a set of conspirators- the trustees.

For the last time, the faithful survivors of the desceased sisterhood who have mourned with heavy heart their dreary afflictioins will appear in the Annual, and our pictures this year portray but a shawdow of our former self.  Now with the voice of sorrow, we shout our requiem.  Hark from the tomb the mournful sound of wailing Alpha Delta Pi, Phi Mu, Zeta Tau Alpha, Delta Delta Delta.

The good that we did lives after us, and Wesleyan without Soroities will be Hamlet without the Ghost, Germany without the Kaiser, and night without stars.

I think these ladies were very sassy and I loved this passage they wrote.  The archivist at the college was kind enough to let us have a look at the archives from which this was pulled and assume a greater picture of our history.  

On the campus there are also many great photo opportunities for us as Leadership Consultants and we for sure took advantage of it!

The Alpha Delta Pi fountain on the campus.

Naturally, we hopped in and took some great shots.  Personally, love love love this photo!

Under the banner for the college.

#graceprobs

At the Alpha Delta Pi bench that's engraved with the names of our six founders and our Coat of Arms.

It was an incredible experience to be back at the foundation of our sorority with women who are equally as passionate about the mission of Alpha Delta Pi.  

For more pictures check out this album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200202839415990.1073741827.1302150062&type=1&l=9db87d1eac