06/23/2026
LIOS Marketplace!
Last week, LIOS came alive. For the first time in nearly a decade, we ran our Marketplace simulation—and it was a vivid reminder of what makes a LIOS education different.
LIOS is based on experiential in-person learning. Marketplace is during our 5th week-long residency (of 6 per school year). Students integrate their learning's to date then work on them within the context and pressure of the marketplace.
Here’s what happened.
Students in the Masters of Science in Leadership, Management and Organizational Development were split into two teams, each given seed money and less than 24 hours to bring real products to market. By the time the market opened, there were real products, real sales, and real accountability for the results with the goal of creating thriving, conscious, learning organizations.
That pressure is the point. In those 24 hours, students practiced the skills that define effective leaders either as an employee or a manager:
• Leading through action and reflection—making decisions, then learning from how they land.
• Giving and receiving behaviorally specific feedback and aligning a team around shared goals.
• Working productively across differences, turning a group of strangers into a functioning team.
This is leadership you can’t learn from a textbook. It’s why Marketplace remains part of our master’s curriculum, and it’s a window into how LIOS prepares people to lead in their organizations, their communities, and their own lives.
Know someone who’d thrive here?
If you know someone whose work—and whose people—would benefit from a deeper, more human approach to leadership, invite them to an information session. They’ll hear directly from LIOS president Chris Crosby about the program and what makes a great LIOS student.
Sessions run Thursday evenings, 6:30–7:30 PT, roughly every other week.
Sign Up Here: https://lios.org/upcoming-info-sessions/
