Leadership America, the competitive edge in women's leadership for 25 years   Leadership America was launched with the encouragement and support of memorable Texas women, including Governor Ann Richards, presidential journalist Liz Carpenter, US Representative Barbara Jordan, writer Molly Ivins, First Lady Lady Bird Johnson and US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. The inspiring legacies of these and many other notable women are reflected in the more than 2,000 Leadership America alumnae, including US Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri; several members of the US House of Representatives; Laura Liswood, Secretary General of the Council of World Women Leaders; former US Ambassador and distinguished professor at Harvard's JFK School of Public Policy, Swanee Hunt; university presidents and professors; physicians and executive nurses and other public figures. Leadership America alumnae are also found in our nation's leading businesses and corporations; education institutions; medical and scientific arenas; the arts; entrepreneurial endeavors; and nonprofit organizations. Where ever they are, Leadership America women are making positive differences in a deep and diverse array of professional and personal spheres of influence.

Purpose

Creative and innovative leadership is needed to strengthen and sustain today's global society. America and the world have an insatiable desire for new approaches to address complex issues, for discernment amidst the cacophony of disparate voices, for new collaborations across lines of differences and for the vision to move beyond polarization - at home and abroad. To remain competitive, America must continue to develop the leaders and innovators of the future.

Each of the three, related 2012 program sessions will provide the most relevant insights, newest ideas, and most substantive information focusing on the envisioning the future of some of the most pressing issues of our turbulent times.

Program Structure

Using the locales of three of the nation's most vibrant cities, each session's agenda will feature opportunities to meet with community and national transformational leaders whose resilient imaginations, bold ideas and creative energy call for abandoning the familiar, broken and outmoded answers, in favor of a new perspective.

The women of 2012 Leadership America will address complex issues, consider new modes of listening and relating to a diverse society, identify areas of mutual interest, and develop new visions for moving towards the common good, at home and abroad.

The sessions will also provide participants unprecedented opportunities to acquire information and hone the advanced leadership skills that will place them at the forefront of the leadership evolution.

2012 Sessions

SESSION I The Future of America as a Global Leader (April 29-May 1) Washington, DC: Against the backdrop of our nation's capital, the opening session of 2012 Leadership America will feature conversations with political leaders, public policy strategists, economic experts, and members of the media concerning the dramatically changing global leadership landscape. Leadership America will seek to engage those who are creating bold new solutions and bringing fundamental changes to their spheres of expertise and influence. Leadership America participants will also have the opportunity to discuss ways their own imaginations and evolving leadership styles can affect changes in how women leaders connect, work and serve.

SESSION II The Future of the Global Community (July 16-18) San Francisco, CA: "Consensus & Collaboration - A Reality or the Impossible Dream?" In the San Francisco session, the women of Leadership America will engage visionaries, geniuses, and heroes who are stepping forward to awaken what is best in us and to inspire what is better than before. Conversations will focus on maturing technologies, the imaginative innovations, and the conscious creativity that are energizing a sense of community across the nation and around the globe. Most importantly, the session will address the bold leadership needed to unite the stakeholders - citizens, business and corporate interests, educators, environmentalists, scientists, the health care community, public policy experts, and legislators - to develop common ground that will result in communities that are balanced, just, renewed and whole.

SESSION III The Future of the Global Economy (September 9-11) Houston, TX: "The Emergence of New Economic Forces" The women of Leadership America will examine collaborative solutions and explore a culture of interconnectedness with the capacity to turn the world right-side-up. There will be emphasis on the growing influence and impact of women to exercise significant leadership to make an economic difference in the world and to enable transition into a more future oriented global society. Participants will have conversations with a diverse pool of minds and stakeholders; visionary leaders, bold thinkers who are inspiring and empowering the leaders of tomorrow...leaders whose imaginative ideas and audacious new solutions will inevitably remap a more equitable society across the nation and around the globe.

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