1. Vinny Torossy

2. Five Traits of Leadership
 According to Robert A. Mitchell’s Five Traits of
Leadership these are the 5 characteristics of a
Jesuit institution:
1. A passion for quality
2. Study of humanities and the sciences no matter
what specializations may be offered.
3. Preoccupation with questions of ethics and
values for both the personal and professional
lives of graduates
4. Importance a Jesuit education gives to a
religious experience.
5. It is person centered.

3. My Jesuit Education
 I am currently attending Loyola University
Chicago where these five traits of Jesuit
education help me to prepare for leadership
experiences now and into the future.

4. A Passion for Quality
 Jesuit educations provide an education by those who are
respected and know the field.
 At Loyola I have had business teachers that have actually been
executives in companies, and other teachers that have worked in
their field before they started teaching.
 I am able to talk to these teachers one-on-one and try to
understand the right steps it takes to get into a particular field
such as politics or the business world, because for the most part
they are very knowledgeable on a certain field.
 Talking to professors helps me prepare for leadership because I
know what steps I have to take to accomplish my career goals in
life, and it helps develop communication skills.

5. Study of humanities and the
sciences
“Jesuit institutions want students prepared for living as
well as for working”
 Even though it’s important for me to get a good education
at Loyola it is also important to be able to understand how
to live and work in the real world.
 Learning things that are not only applicable in a school
setting but learning things that will help me beyond
college are what I gain at LUC, and I believe it enhances
my leadership skills.
 An effective leader has to know how to operate in the real
world not just in the four walls of a classroom, and I
believe that Loyola teaches us how to use our skills not
only in those four walls but in the outside world as well.

6. Questions of Ethics and Values for Both
the Personal and Professional Lives of
Graduates
“Family values, personal integrity, and business ethics
have always been important.”
 Not only operating politely in a classroom setting, but
taking that same integrity, respect, values, and
responsibility that are instilled in us in our classrooms at
Loyola and following those in the outside world
demonstrates good leadership.
 We are taught that in order to be an effective student and
leader that we need not only focus on school but other
things that we value in life.
 The values that are instilled in me in the classroom are
what I carry on in the outside world, and those values that
we are taught have prepared me for future and current
leadership positions.

7. Importance to a Religious
Experience
 Having religious teachings offered at Loyola allows its student
body, including myself to grow as a person and a leader in both
knowledge and faith.
 Students that are strict churchgoers may gain a little more out of
the religious experience than others.
 After the readings and through my Jesuit education to this point I
have learned that a religious faith helps one gain a better
understanding of the sense of community.
 Gaining this better understanding and having this insight has
helped me become a better leader in trying to understand what is
beneficial to the community, not to just myself or my friends.

8. Person Centered
 The goal of a Jesuit education is to teach the students
that the individual is important.
 Loyola has stressed this, even though we are a large
institution with about 10,000 undergraduates we are in
small and manageable classroom sizes that we are able
to have a better interaction with the professor.
 Learning the importance of the individual has helped me
prepare for leadership by realizing that the majority may
hold a certain stance, but every single person holds a
unique opinion within that majority. Everyone has a right
to say what they want to say, and that needs to be heard,
and respected.

9. Jesuit Higher Education and
Leadership
 My Jesuit education at Loyola University Chicago I
feel has made me not only a better leader but a
better person.
 Values are taught and learned he that would not be at
a large state school.
 The interactions that I have with teachers on a day to
day basis and the teachings offered by a Jesuit
school in particular this Jesuit school are skills that I
will have with me for the rest of my life.

10. The Concept of Magis
 The concept of magis means to do more, the
greater, for God.
 Magis is important to leadership, it is a part of our
motto here at Loyola University Chicago which
is, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, or for the greater glory
of God.
 Magis though does not only apply to religious
aspects, it can apply to leaders, and humans in
every day life that attempt to do great things for
God.

11. Magis and Leadership
“When you work, give your all. When you make
plans plan boldly. And when you dream, dream
big.”
 This quote describes magis from the Chapter 13
reading.
 This quote is how magis applies to leadership and
how they intersect. A leader is supposed to go above
and beyond the call of duty whatever that may be.
magis involves doing the greater of what is
necessary, and a leader should attempt to the best of
their ability to do the best thing possible. Always
going above and beyond is what magis is about and
that is what leadership is about.

12. Magis and Leadership Cont…
 A leader cannot be just anyone that goes about
their day to day business. A leader is someone
that needs to go beyond what is necessary.
That is where magis and leadership intersect.
 The only way to lead is by example, and by
going above what is necessary and following
magis one is leading by example.
 Magis shows leadership in the regards of doing
more than is necessary for the benefit of others.

13. A Jesuit Education, Magis, and
Leadership
 I am currently a sophomore here at Loyola and
through my one half years completed I feel that a
Jesuit education has been vital to preparing me to
be a leader in the future.
 Our motto at Loyola of Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
encourages each and everyone one of us to go and
above and beyond what is expected. We need to
perform to the best of our abilities, and then some to
accomplish our goals.
 Leadership values have been instilled in me through
my Jesuit education to thus point and I'm sure there
is only more to be learned in my remaining time here
at Loyola University Chicago.