Welcome
The Advanced Leadership Fellowship is designed to enhance and leverage the skills of highly accomplished, experienced leaders who want to apply their talents to solve significant social problems, including those affecting health and welfare, children and the environment, and focus on community and public service in the next phase of their careers.
In January of 2009, a select group of Harvard Advanced Leadership Fellows embarked on a flexible, enriching, pioneering year of preparation to jump-start their next career. Our fourth cohort began this January and we are now accepting expressions of interest for the next cohort planned to start in January, 2013.
Fellows have structured opportunities to exchange ideas with peers and faculty as well as flexible, individualized opportunities to work toward their own goals. They have the chance to mentor students, lead study groups, and sit in on relevant courses throughout the University, with their spouses/partners as desired. They meet and advise leaders grappling with major social and global problems and will learn the state of the art. They travel on guided field immersion trips and enrich their connections all over the world.
The year leads toward development and refinement of the Fellows' plans for their next stage work: starting a foundation, a campaign for a cause, a social enterprise, or public office with the potential for big impact on a major social problem. In the Fall of the Fellowship year, each Fellow (or team of Fellows) will present their plans to peers and interested colleagues and faculty.
Network membership will continue beyond the Fellowship year, with Fellows able to join events and build on their Harvard contacts as they execute their plan.