The Aspen Institute Is an Educational and Policy Studies Organization Based in Washington, DC. Its Mission Is to Foster Leadersh

The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues. The Institute has campuses in Aspen, Colorado, and on the Wye River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. It also maintains offices in New York City and has an international network of partners.

Seminars Leadership Initiative For decades, Aspen Institute seminars have For more than a decade, the Institute has created a respite from the pace of daily life supported programs for accomplished and an opportunity to deliberate on lasting leaders in the US and around the world. ideas and values in the company of one’s Beginning with the creation of the Henry peers. They help leaders deepen their Crown Fellowship Program, these initiatives knowledge, broaden their perspectives, and share a common goal of encouraging a new enhance their capacities to think creatively generation of civically engaged men and and strategically about solutions to the women to move “from success to problems that confront society. The significance” and apply their entrepreneurial seminars challenge civic and business talents to addressing the foremost challenges leaders and others to rethink the meaning of of their organizations, communities, and “the good society” and explore in small countries. Fellows also put their ideas into groups the ideas and values that have shaped action by carrying out a leadership project. human history. They are based on classical Today, the Aspen Global Leadership and contemporary readings and are led using Network counts more than 1,600 Fellows the Socratic method. from 46 countries, and it continues to grow.

Policy Programs Public Conferences and Events Aspen Institute policy programs advance A growing number of public programs — public and private sector knowledge on including the Aspen Ideas Festival, significant policy issues confronting Washington Ideas Forum, and New York contemporary society. They convene leaders Ideas— open the doors of the Institute to a and experts to reach constructive solutions larger audience, offering opportunities to to critical problems. While each program is engage in the same thoughtful, nonpartisan unique in substance and approach, they all inquiry that leaders do at conferences and share a common mission and method. Each seminars. serves as an impartial forum for proven leaders in a given field, bringing diverse perspectives together in pursuit of informed For more information, visit dialogue and effective action. www.aspeninstitute.org.

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