Trump’s Approach to Leadership
A faculty roundtable discusses the challenges Donald Trump now faces in leading the federal government, his party, and the country.
The last of a three-part series of roundtable discussions, produced in collaboration with HKS Magazine, on the challenges facing President-elect Trump in foreign policy, economics, and leadership.
Donald Trump will soon become the first president in the history of the United States to reach office without previous experience in either elected office or military service.
Of course, that’s not to say he doesn’t have leadership experience — he is one of the most famous business leaders in the world — but there are important differences between private and public leadership, and without a record in public service, his approach to presidential leadership is an unknown.
On this week’s PolicyCast, our faculty roundtable discusses the history of presidential leadership, how Trump’s business experience will translate to the federal government, and how his relationship with a republican congress could play out.
Senior Lecturer Barbara Kellerman is the Founding Executive Director of the School’s Center for Public Leadership and author of the recent book Hard Times: Leadership in America.
Professor David King directed the Task Force on Election Administration for the National Commission on Election Reform in the early 200s and now Chairs the Kennedy School’s Masters of Public Administration programs.
Professor Roger Porter served for more than a decade in senior economic policy positions in the White House, most recently in the George H. W. Bush administration.
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Matt Cadwallader has been the host of Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast for nearly five years, interviewing more than 150 guests on all manner of issues related to public policy, governance, and international affairs.
