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Unlock your Leadership Potential

Welcome to Junior National Leadership Summit, the premier forum for transforming today’s most motivated students into tomorrow’s most dedicated leaders. Junior National Leadership Summit is an in-depth, intensive immersion experience that uncovers true ability and develops lifelong skills - and is specifically geared toward students who want to reach their full potential. Junior National Leadership Summit is designed to tap into your natural talents and teach you specific and tangible skills that you’ll carry forward throughout your high school, and college years.

Develop Your Leadership Skills in Real-World Scenarios

In middle school, you learn from textbooks. At Junior National Leadership Summit, you’ll learn by doing. You’ll practice your team-building skills in realistic, hands-on scenarios. Role-playing and time- sensitive challenges give you the chance to practice, test, refine, measure, and improve your leadership abilities. And you’ll learn to give and receive constructive and timely feedback - tools critical for every successful leader.

Work as a Team in Our LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE

The Leadership Challenge ropes course* gives you the opportunity to hone team building, leadership, communication, collaboration, experimentation, problem solving and coaching skills. You’ll participate in activities that require trust, effective communication and mutual support to achieve success. Some of the exercises in the course involve physical activity while others focus mainly on creative thinking and problem solving. Regardless of the exercise, you’ll find that each activity promotes respect, the sharing of ideas and opinions and understanding of individual strengths - while illustrating the importance of teamwork and well-formulated plans.

*In the event of rain alternate indoor activities are planned.

 

Program Highlights

Learn to lead — Explore your natural talents, uncover new abilities you didn’t know you had, and learn how to harness your personal strengths to lead yourself and others to greatness.

At the Junior National Leadership Summit you can:

• Work as a team member in a hands-on leadership simulation that focuses on real life situations that leaders face today.
• Enhance your teambuilding skills during the exciting Leadership Challenge, a “Challenge-by-Choice” ropes course containing high and low elements, group initiatives, and teambuilding activities.
• Participate in hands-on, cutting-edge leadership exercises.
• Acquire practical skills you can use every day to make each day a personal best.
• Discover how much more you can achieve and raise the expectations you have for yourself.
• Create a personal roadmap and action plan for your future in high school, college, and beyond.
• Make new friends and meet students from around the country who share your passion to excel and lead others.
• Explore the host university and its surrounding city including Washington DC, New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco.
• Know what it’s like to attend a prominent college or university including Columbia University, DePaul University, Franklin W. Olin College, The George Washington University, The Johns Hopkins University, and Stanford University.

Summits can include special presentations and guided off-campus field trips unique to their location.

• Columbia University Summit—New York. Explore the electric energy of Times Square, the famed theatre district, restaurants, shops, and much more the city has to offer. Gain an understanding of why NYC is one our nation’s most influential cities, creating global trends and leading the country in many business areas.
• Georgetown University Summit—Washington DC. Visit Capitol Hill and view our nation’s leaders in action. This special excursion will challenge you with collecting and searching for historical facts during a leadership exploration that takes you to the U.S. Supreme Court, Capitol Hill Visitor’s Center, Library of Congress, and the U.S. Capitol Building.

Attend a special presentation by President and CEO of Goodwill Greater Washington, Catherine Meloy, M.A. Prior to joining Goodwill of Greater Washington, Ms. Meloy was the Senior Vice President of Sales of Clear Channel Communications, Inc., and General Manager of WASH-FM and WBIG, BIG 100. Her involvement in the greater Washington commercial sector includes: member of the Board of the Directors, Greater Washington Board of Trade, member of the Federal City Council, member of the DC Chamber of Commerce and the Maryland Chamber of Commerce. In 2000, she received the Greater Washington Board of Trade's “Leader of the Year Award” and in 2001 was honored by Washingtonian Magazine as “Washingtonian of the Year.“

Uncover your leadership potential.

Program Components

• Leadership Attitudes & Skills

  Attitudes and Skills that will be developed, tested and honed may include some of the following:

  • Communication and public speaking
  • Negotiation and conflict resolution
  • Self-awareness and self-coaching
  • Vision, commitment and integrity
  • Personal responsibility
  • Team building
  • Goal setting and time management

 

A DAY AT JUNIOR NATIONAL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

Photo Gallery

Previous Guest Speakers & Organizations Include:

Community Leaders, Leadership Experts and Academics

• Jean Berubi, Director, Day of Discovery, Gallaudet University
• Dr. W. Warner Burke, Edward Thorndike Professor of Psychology & Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
• Ira Chaleff, Founder & President, Executive Coaching & Consulting Associates
• Dr. Brenda Graham, Associate Professor of Leadership, Department of Leadership, Concordia University
• Christopher Irving, M.A., Executive Director, The Miller Institute of Leadership & Diversity
• Catherine Meloy, M.A., President & CEO, Goodwill of Greater Washington
• Jenne Myers, Chief Service Officer, City of Chicago
• Rayona Sharpnack, Founder & CEO, Institute for Women’s Leadership

Experiential Leadership Organizations

• Alley Pond Adventure Course
• Baltimore Boys and Girls Club
• Gallaudet University Day of Discovery
• Harmony Hills Ropes Course
• Pacific Leadership Institute
• Project Ascent
• San Francisco Food Bank

 

Dates, Location and Tuition

Complete tuition, enrollment and other conference details can be found in the Application and Enrollment & Other Details included in your invitation package and in the online application.

Please pay careful attention, as dates may have changed from printed material.

2011 Spring Junior National Leadership Summit Sessions*

Location	City	Program Date	Tuition	Tuition & Travel Insurance
Sheraton National	Washington DC	April 14 – April 18	$1,699	$99	Enroll
Sheraton National	Washington DC	April 21 –April 25	$1,699	$99	Enroll

2011 Summer Junior National Leadership Summit Sessions*

Location	City	Program Date	Tuition	Tuition & Travel Insurance
Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD	June 21- June 25	$1,599	$99	Enroll
Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD	June 29 – July 3	$1,599	$99	Enroll
F.W. Olin College	Boston, MA	July 19 – July 23	$1,599	$99	Enroll
DePaul University	Chicago, IL	July 7 – July 11	$1,599	$99	Enroll
Columbia University	New York, NY	July 5 – July 12	$2,799	$99	Enroll
Columbia University	New York, NY	July 16 – July 23	$2,799	$99	Enroll
Columbia University	New York, NY	July 27– August 3	$2,799	$99	Enroll
Stanford University	Palo Alto, CA	August 1 – August 5	$1,699	$99	Enroll
Stanford University	Palo Alto, CA	August 8 – August 12	$1,699	$99	Enroll
Georgetown University	Washington, DC	July 10 – July 17	$2,299	$99	Enroll
Georgetown University	Washington, DC	July 22 – July 29	$2,299	$99	Enroll

Tuition includes:

• A full schedule of classes, briefings, lectures and simulations
• Certificate of Completion
• Housing accommodations at a University/College dormitory (summer) or Conference Center (spring only)
• All on-campus meals **
• Course materials and lab fee
• Transportation as needed for off-site activities, briefings and events
• Field trips and social events
• Program Faculty and on-site staff for supervision
• LeadAmerica T-shirt

*Dates and locations are subject to change.

** Students will need spending money for several off-site meals, souvenirs and incidentals.

Students are responsible for their own airfare or other travel costs to and from each conference location.