Steering As Leading
SC, by design, provides an engaging but also challenging structure by which to lead such a large program. Housing anywhere from five to nine individuals including the Director (an official appointed by Harvard administration), Steering Committee is responsible for the bulk of the program’s logistics when we are not leading trips—in other words, all but a couple of weeks in the academic year, including the summer. The central tenet of the group is the consensus-based decision-making model. Consensus states that decisions must be made after discussion, and that while individuals do not necessarily need to agree with every choice, they must be comfortable with moving forward.