Advanced Leadership Corps (ALC) applications for the 2026 cohort are now closed.

ALC is an immersive personal development program comprised of three parts:

Part 1: The coach comes to you!

Before the course, you will complete an assessment designed to provide you with insights into your leadership style. You will receive a preliminary one-on-one session with a coach, scheduled at a time and place of your choice. The focus of this coaching is to work on your oral presentation skills. You will learn how to hold an audience’s attention and begin to craft your personal leadership vision. 

Part 2: Residential Leadership Program

In this week-long intensive course, you will create strong and lasting relationships with your fellow participants as you learn together in a series of activities that will strengthen your ability to effectively lead and govern. Sessions are held each day, and you will work together all day and most evenings.

Part 3: Follow-up Leadership Coaching

Every participant receives an additional session with a professional executive coach. An experienced coach will help you interpret the feedback you received from your multi-rater leadership assessments. This personal leadership coaching will help you delve deeper into your own behaviors and practices, strengthening your capacity to lead others.

Our Goal and Vision

ALC is an empowered group of local elected leaders who strengthen their communities and help their residents feel and be engaged in the process of governing.

ALC builds an ecosystem across North Carolina for local elected officials to grow as leaders and share their knowledge and experiences.  

You will learn to:

    • Improve your ability to inspire others to work toward a shared vision
    • Develop deeper insights into what it means to lead and govern in the public sector
    • Reflect on leadership as a skill to be learned and a relationship to be nurtured
    • Observe and adapt to others’ communication styles to form more effective relationships

Our expectations of you
In exchange for this opportunity, we expect from you:

    • Completion of all advance assignments before the course.
    • Commitment to spending a week in Chapel Hill, March 2–4
    • Attendance at and participation in all events
    • Sharing with others and respecting differences
    • Being fully present

Added Benefit: Upon completion of ALC, you become part of an extensive alumni network called ambassadors and attend future ambassadors’ events tuition-free.