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.
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.