The Advancement Leadership Lab offers a transformative, values-driven experience designed to challenge and empower the next generation of visionary advancement leaders.
A Laboratory Without Formulas
When it comes to leadership styles, there’s no magic formula. Rather than focusing on a single method or philosophy, participants in the Advancement Leadership Lab (ALL) learn from introspection, interaction, and inspiration, exploring a variety of approaches to find what works best for them. ALL facilitates the process, providing more than 200 structured hours of thoughtfully constructed growth opportunities over nine months of in-person and virtual gatherings.
PARTICIPANTS:
Learn from a cohort of high performing peers
Study the approaches of top executives in advancement and beyond
Explore challenging simulations and case studies
Build lasting, impactful networks
Leaders Get Results
Better leadership is a powerful organizational multiplier, leading to improved culture, vision, decisions, and overall outcomes you can see in the bottom line. ALL curriculum was developed with this intended impact in mind, emphasizing real-world application and scaling positive influence to bring results for participating institutions. Since its founding in 2018, the impact of ALL has become clear:
GOING STRONG
100% of participating institutions have continued in ALL since its inception
TALENT RETENTION
ALL alumni show higher-than-average retention rates at their sponsoring institutions
RISING STARS
Many alumni have risen to the executive level and beyond since their cohort experience
EXPANDING REACH
20+ leading institutions across the USA, Canada and UK have joined ALL
Shaping the Future, Together
ALL unites high-performing advancement leaders from different disciplines within many of the world’s top public and private universities. Together, these leaders are committed to imagining and shaping the future of the advancement industry.
PUBLIC
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Florida
UNC Chapel Hill
The Ohio State University
Penn State University
University of Texas at Austin
University of Toronto
University of Virginia
University of Washington
PRIVATE
Boston College
California Institute of Technology
University of Cambridge
Carnegie Mellon University
Emory University
University of Notre Dame
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
Vanderbilt University
Working in Community
While the official cohort experience only lasts a year, participants will continue to receive support through virtual seminars, occasional Recharge events and access to materials to conduct exercises within their own teams. Many alumni leaders have also applied what they have learned from ALL and fellow cohort members to help build deeper leadership development pipelines in their own organizations.
“We won’t give you a playbook. We will give you big questions. You’ll wrestle with those questions with your peers – and they will challenge you to think differently.”
Alex Lawrence, Executive Director, Advancement Leadership Lab
By Advancement, For Advancement
ALL is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization created by and for the higher education advancement industry. It was founded by advancement executives who identified a growing need to invest in the development of principled, self-aware and adaptive leaders with the potential to transform their institutions and the profession. Where professional development programs often focus on skill development, ALL focuses on the positive organizational multiplier that great leadership creates.
Do you think ALL might be right for your institution?