Barack Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii and spent part of his childhood in Indonesia before returning to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983 and Harvard Law School in 1991. Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996 and later the U.S. Senate in 2004. He announced his candidacy for U.S. president in 2007 and was sworn in as the 44th president in 2009, becoming the first African American president. As president, Obama displayed leadership traits such as self-confidence, integrity, and caring for others.

1. BARACK OBAMA
AS A LEADER
EADERSHIP

2. Childhood
 Born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th
1961.
 Family moved to the Indonesia in 1967
 Schooling in Jakarta ( age 6 to 10)
 Returned to Honolulu to live with his
grandparents in 1971
 Punahou school (grade 5th to high
school graduation in 1979)

3. College Years
Graduate in 1983 with B A from Columbia
University
 Worked with Business International
Corporation and the New York Public Interest
Research Group
 Director of the Developing Communities
Project(DCP) from June 1985 to May 1988
Graduated in 1991 from Harvard Law School

4. Political Career
 Elected to Illinois senate for the 13th district in 1996
 Chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Health and Human
Services Committee In January 2003
 2004 election campaign for U.S. Senate
 Resigned from the Illinois senate in November 2004
 Announced his candidacy on Feb. 10 2007
 Obama was sworn in as president of the united states
of America on January 20th 2009
Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States,
in 2009
 Re-Elected 2nd time, sworn in as president on January
20th, 2013

5. Personality Traits
 Conviction & Perseverance
 Change
We-Not-I Attitude
 Taking Risk
 The art of communication
 Turning endings into new beginnings
High Energy
Flexibility

6. Leadership Traits
 Self Confidence
 Integrity
 Sensitivity to others
 Respect
 Fairness
 Citizenship
 Caring

7. Speaking Styles
Obama is able to inspire
through speaking
Getting straight to the hard issues
while still creating the feeling
Skill that close to Lincoln’s amazing
speaking abilities.

8. Situation
 Obama, much like Lincoln finds himself
elected in the middle of a crisis.
 National issues for Lincoln : Civil War,
Reconstruction.
 National Issues for Obama: Economic Crisis,
Wars in Iraq And Afghanistan, Climate
Change.