Fellows Programs

ALF is passionately committed to building diverse networks of leaders focused on personal and community transformation in order to create inclusive and thriving communities.

Each chapter’s Fellows Program is creating a strong regional network of key leaders across private, public and nonprofit sectors, as well as bridging ethnic, gender and geographic boundaries.  Each year, each Fellows Program brings together approximately twenty-five leaders with diverse backgrounds and perspectives for an intense one-of-a-kind leadership development experience.

Characterized by its focus on the human capacity for collective intelligence and how people are in relationship to each other, the ALF program begins a process of uncovering the principles of a different kind of leadership. When people who represent high achievement in different spheres of influence come together to learn and think, their creative and problem-solving power as a group can lead to highly effective coordinated action.

Program graduates – called Senior Fellows – are empowered to serve as catalysts in their communities, bringing stakeholders from other sectors together to collaboratively address the most urgent public concerns. In ALF Founder Joseph Jaworski’s words, Senior Fellows are thus able to “break legislative and bureaucratic gridlock and get things done.”