The purpose of Leadership Santa Fe (LSF) is to give you a vehicle for your community-oriented energies. LSF connects you to a broad range of leaders and issues in Santa Fe and gives you a greater sense of how a healthy community operates. Our program faculty spends time each session developing your awareness of civic issues and personal leadership abilities and gives you opportunities to transfer what you learn to group, organizational, and community applications. Through experiential learning, self-reflection, and group discussion, you will grow in your leadership capacity. Our focus is to prepare you to serve the organizations that are the civic and economic life-blood of Santa Fe.

By the time you graduate, you will be able to:

• Appreciate your leadership strengths and gifts and those of others
• Build strong, lasting connections with your classmates and other people, organizations, and institutions in the community
• Have an increased understanding of Santa Fe and its community
• Define a vision for how the community should operate in the future
• Have an improved awareness of who the key players are in Santa Fe
• Understand the essential tasks of community leadership and apply them to help shape the future of the community
• State and act on your vision for the community
• Inspire people to work together across interests for the common good
• Take personal responsibility to remain self-aware, centered in values, courageous in convictions, and committed to action

To apply, click on this link to our online application form.