Apply for American Express Leadership Academy

Deadline: 11-Aug-25

Are you ready to drive change forward in your organization and help grow the foundations needed for the future success of the non-profit sector? Apply for the American Express Leadership Academy to strengthen the non-profit sector by building the capacity of its leaders.

The programme is transformative by design. It gives non-profit leaders from diverse specialities and organizations a unique opportunity to learn from each other’s experiences, address current and future challenges within the sector, as well as gain insight from key leaders in social, public and private sectors.

Programme Themes

Resilient Changemakers Assessment
Leading Beyond Authority
Building Resilience
Storytelling for connection

Benefits

Active transformational learning
- Highly interactive, hands-on format, experiential, social learning offering an opportunity to practice new behaviours and learn by doing.
Real world
- Rooted in real and live issues in a local context. Explored through the eyes of inspirational leaders who share how leadership works in their world.
Powerful networks
- Access to ongoing support from a diverse peer group and where you can work together on personal leadership challenges that matter to you.
World class facilitators
- The facilitators co-design an experiential journey and psychologically safe space for learning in partnership with you, creating the conditions for rich feedback, open sharing, and experimentation
Skills, mindsets & knowledge
- The explore the three conditions needed to thrive in an ever-changing world, from attitudes and perspectives, to taking an actionable approach
Practical tools and tactics
- Real takeaways that you can continue to practice and apply in your everyday work

Learning Outcomes

A more self-aware changemaker: With a better understanding and confidence in your role as a leader.
A more resilient changemaker: With greater resolve and stamina for leading change, particularly in times of uncertainty.
A more connected changemaker: With a greater ability to better connect with others using the power of storytelling.
A more purposeful changemaker: With a renewed commitment to addressing key issues currently affecting the non-profit sector.

The Takeaways

Here is an example of some of the toolkit of resources you will receive to help you lead now and into the future.
- Techniques to build your personal brand
- Tactics for building a growth mindset
- A variety of active listening techniques
- Techniques to find/ know your purpose
- Processes to experiment with to turn ideas into action
- Methods to better sustain yourself in times of uncertainty

Who is it for?

The Academy is for people in the non-profit sector who are intentionally striving to be better equipped to respond adaptively to challenges, and to keep going in the face of adversity.
As a Resilient Changemaker you are looking to:
- Have a growth mindset and be continually learning
- Have (or are striving for) high levels of grit and perseverance
- See failures as minor setbacks, with the tenacity to bounce back quickly and turn challenges into opportunities
- Maintain a positive attitude when faced with change
- Set the pace when learning from the front
- Take creative action to drive innovation

Eligibility Criteria

Senior leaders, currently in or identified for executive roles in future
Works for a registered non-profit
In roles that require them to accelerate their ability to influence inside and outside their organizations
With a track record of innovation, embraces change, and want to transform their team, organization and community
Note: Please note that eligibility for this programme is limited to applicants within the specified region. Kindly ensure that you are applying for the programme available in the region in which you reside.

Deadlines

EMEA and UK: 7 April 2025
The Americas: 11 August 2025

For more information, visit Common Purpose.