2025 Early College Summit

After 10 years in the classroom, Stuart founded Appointed to Lead motivated by a passion for providing high quality leadership development instruction to high school students. Appointed to Lead seeks to help every student become the leader they were made to be by inspiring, equipping, and empowering the next generation of leaders while they are still in school.

Stuart’s personal leadership development journey began in the second grade, when he was organizing tag football games during recess. As a Caldwell Fellow at NC State University, Stuart experienced high quality leadership development programming first hand. The education and experiences the Caldwell Fellows program afforded him helped him understand the importance of practical leadership experience alongside theoretical training. As a founding member of the Wake Young Men’s Leadership Academy, he was an integral part of developing and refining leadership programming for the school over the last 12 years.