Highlights From The Challenge Of Leadership Seminars
Think back to your first seminar, The Challenge of Leadership. The magic of the room and the first time you were meeting classmates; people who would become lifelong advisors and friends. Throughout the fall, seven AGLN Fellowship classes launched, sending 134 new Fellows on their journey thinking about their role and responsibility as leaders.
This first seminar exposed Fellows to a range of leaders offering different leadership styles and models. Among them are Mohandas Gandhi, Jean Monnet, Martin Luther King Jr., Margaret Thatcher, Jack Welch, and Lee Kwan Yew. Discussions center around challenging situations inherent in any aspect of leadership – when push comes to shove, what decisions do you make and how do these decisions affect your ability to lead others? Read on to see the highlights and reflections from the most recent Challenge of Leadership seminars.
Finance Leaders Fellowship's Third Class in Aspen, CO
“The seminar has shown me - from my fellow participants to the seminar leaders to the readings - that effective, enlightened leadership comes from self-knowledge, reflection, engagement, compassion, determination and getting proximate to challenges,” said Paul Riseborough of the Finance Leaders Fellowship’s “Third Way” Class, “I would not have got to this place and these realisations without this seminar, my fellow participants and the guiding hand of the seminar leaders.”
Central America Leadership Initiative's 14th Class in El Chirú, Panama
The first convenings of these cohorts took place across the globe. The China Fellowship Program’s sixth class came together in Yagshuo, China, while the Central America Leadership Initiative held there 14th class launch in El Chirú, Panama, and the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship’s seventh class gathered in Fariadabad, India. The Health Innovators Fellowship’s fourth class, Henry Crown Fellowship’s 22nd class, Pahara-Aspen Fellowship’s 22nd class, and Finance Leaders Fellowship’s fourth class continued a 70-year-old tradition of seminar participants gathering in Aspen at the Aspen Meadows.
Pictured above are early seminar participants, including original seminar moderator Mortimer Adler, in the Marble Garden and, below, the fourth class of Health Innovators Fellows gathered in the same spot last month!
“There are many ways to effect change and all of those avenues should be considered prior to action. I recognize my own internal wisdom in a way I could not prior to this seminar. I feel grounded as I reenter the world, and I take my Fellows’ courage and perspectives with me.”
- Eight Days by James Stewart, from the Finance Leaders Fellowship
- 1,112 and Counting by Larry Kramer, from the Health Innovators Fellowship
- The Uses of Not by Loazi ,from the China Fellowship Program
Henry Crown Fellowship's 22nd Class in Aspen, CO
“I feel that I will approach leadership with a different mindset - one that is more rooted in humanity, listening, compassion, and direction,” said Henry Crown Fellow, Julia Hartz.
Besides beginning to reflect on leadership in their daily lives, Fellows began to connect and form meaningful relationships within their classes. One sentiment from these new classes was the feeling of a shared mission and that, through their shared experiences, they are not alone.
China Fellowship Program's Sixth Class in Yagshuo, China
- Henry Crown Fellowship "2 Legit 2 Quit" Class
- China Fellowship Program "Sugar Six" Class
- Finance Leaders Fellows “Third Way” Class
- Central America Leadership Initiative "One for All" Class
- Health Innovators Fellowship "Sizzle and Soul" Class
- Fall 2018 Pahara-Aspen Cohort
- 2018 Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship Class 7
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