Registered student organization promotes leadership, success through speakers

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Amy Reinhold aims to help out leadership on the campus of Central Michigan University.

Next semester, the Novi junior will start the National Society of Leadership and Success as a new CMU registered student organization.

Reinhold was chosen as an intern out of 12 other students to be the president of the RSO.

“The Society is an organization for all students on campus who not only want to get involved,” Reinhold said, “but also would like to have the opportunity to change the lives of other students on campus and help them to reach their true potential.”

The society has been around since 2001 at universities and community colleges all over the U.S., she said, but it has not made its way to CMU yet. The RSO will help students get organized and reach their goals, as well as provide speakers.

“We bring in national speakers, celebrities, professional speakers, motivational speakers,” Reinhold said.

Within the society is something called the Success Networking Team. One e-board member is the coordinator and they are responsible for keeping members working toward their goals, Reinhold said. She finds this to be the heart of the society.

They divide members into groups and provide suggestions for one another for how to start their goals, she said.

Only time will tell if the society will be successful at CMU and Eric Buschlen, leadership department chairman and recreation, parks and leisure professor, is hopeful.

“It will be as good as the students make it,” Buschlen said. “It’s easy to start organizations, the challenge is in the longevity … Leaders on campus should be able to do this and make it worthwhile.”

What comes next?

Now Reinhold’s job is to get together an e-board, including a treasurer, and at least one member so the organization can by registered by next semester. Temporary business professor Peter Moutsatson is the adviser. Reinhold hopes to get at least 10 to 12 e-board members.

She has been going to leadership classes and targeting students with leadership minors to join.

Buschlen is helping her get “face time” with his classes.

“Sometimes people say less is more, but when it comes to RSOs, more is more,” Buschlen said. “As a faculty member, my job is to encourage and foster RSOs of all sorts.”

Reinhold is trying to be one of the speakers at the leadership Connections Conference in Traverse City in November.

Reinhold would like e-Board members to be sophomores or juniors who have had experience on another e-Board before, but she prefers they are not in another one at the same time.

Members must be sophomores or juniors with any major, with a 2.5 GPA or above. To join, it costs $75 for a lifetime fee.