Leaders from organizations across campus will gather together to share ideas on Oct. 4 and 5 at the first Cy’s All-Campus Leadership Summit.

Members of LEAD Team, the student group that is hosting the event, are hoping interested students, faculty and staff will help by giving leadership presentations.

Matt Burns, organizer and graduate in education leadership and policy studies, said proposals for summit programs are being accepted until Friday.

“We want the programs being put on to be done by people in the community,” Burns said. “We’re targeting mostly Iowa State members, but community members are welcome to submit ideas.”

The idea for the summit was born from brainstorming about campus needs in leadership, said Michael Eisenbraun, sophomore in pre-journalism and mass communication.

“A group called the LEAD team was formed through the Student Activities Center, which combined different aspects of leadership organization,” he said. “The conference is an idea that spawned from our brainstorming. We wanted to bridge the gap between different organizations, bring these topics into one sole conference and all together learn about leadership.”

Eisenbraun said the sessions will be held at the Memorial Union, the Lied Recreation Center, Carver Hall and Curtiss Hall.

Burns said the event provides “a campus-wide opportunity for students to attend programs on different aspects of leadership.”

He said the LEAD team “wants to provide an opportunity for student leaders to come to one location, get programming, intermingle and get to know each other.”

The summit includes an icebreaker session on Friday, Oct. 4 and five sessions and a keynote speaker on Saturday, Oct. 5.

“There will be specific programs for residence hall and greek leaders, and other programs are for people who don’t fall into those categories,” Burns said.

The plan is bringing leaders together.

“The event brings the same concepts all into one location,” he said. “Student leaders from different areas of campus and different groups can intermingle, share ideas and make connections.”

Eisenbraun agrees.

“I think this will broaden horizons, especially between the residence halls and the greeks,” he said. “There is a huge wall between them and we’re hoping this will really bring everyone together in the sense that we’re all people with the same goal and we can work together.”