The following are quotes from faculty, students and recent graduates when asked to comment on, "What does Fielding mean to you?"

"Fielding has given me the authority to stand behind my often unique and innovative ideas. Before Fielding, my tendency was to seek validation externally for my ideas. After Fielding, I don’t hesitate to drive perspectives and approaches I believe to be the best options for IBM and my clients. I am equipped with the tools and ability to defend my point of view, find and leverage diverse perspectives, and be mindful of my impact on the world around me."
Yvette Burton, Alum

"Mentoring goes on all over Fielding; students to faculty, faculty to students, more senior and veteran members of the faculty to younger members of the faculty, administrators to faculty and so on. It's embedded in the culture."
Lenneal Henderson, Faculty

"The nature of work is changing, the nature of education is changing. We are going from bricks and mortar - the traditional institutions - to clicks and mortar...more online training more distance education opportunities and certainly Fielding is one of the oldest and most highly respected of those types of institutions."
Toni Luskin, Student

"For me the excitement is still having a global community of friends, of professional colleagues that I can visit, I can exchange intellectual ideas with, they are colleague friends."
Barbara Mink, Faculty

“I entered the Evidence Based Coaching program at Fielding in January of 2007. I have been extremely impressed by the thoroughness of the curriculum, the quality and caliber of faculty, and my fellow students. I have been admitted into the doctoral program in Human and Organizational Systems and am looking forward to strengthening my ties with the university, faculty and alumni. This is an incredible learning community."
Ed Rankin, Student, Founder and President, Manera Group

"The part that is most special to me is the inclusiveness of the program. Its not only culturally diverse but it is so intellectually diverse. There is often [other places that I've been there's] not room for everyone and everyone's viewpoint, but here there's not only room for everyone and everyone's viewpoint, the differences are encouraged and valued and treasured."
Billy Salter, Student

"I think students feel that the faculty really care about their learning and their professional and intellectual development and want to support that...and recognize them as unique individuals ...and aren't trying to fit them into a box."
Jeremy Shapiro, Faculty

"I found all these people with similar ideas, thoughts and passions and I told somebody when I left I had found my people."
Linda Tauhid, Student

"Fielding was a natural choice for me because it fit my learning style and learning needs, and had an excellent reputation in the field of organizational change and development."
Gary Wagenheim, Alum

"The students who do really well here are those who are really free thinkers... who know how to work with the literature and know how to get the best out of the minds they are working with in terms of the faculty. So its being very much a self-starter and really wanting to explore your own inner depth in regard to making things happen for yourself because the structure here is so different."
Linda Wing, Alum