We need A NEW Kind OF LEADER.
Our nation’s converging crises make it clear – leadership matters.
We need ecosystems of proximate leaders who center equity and build trust. Who reflect the communities they serve. Who connect across identities, industries, and issues to make a collective impact.
New Leaders Council provides cross-sector changemakers place-based training and a national network of support – propelling our alumni to create the country we aspire to be.
new kind of leader
NLC trains and connects the local changemakers who champion equity and fuel progress. We invest in those historically excluded from leadership pipelines, yet are best equipped to solve our nation’s most challenging issues.
new approach to leadership
Our Fellows practice a leaderful model in their cohorts, where collaboration breaks down silos across identity, issue, and industry. We build connective infrastructure across perspectives that expand resources for collective action.
New Leaders Council
This new way of leading expands capacity and support for equity movement leaders and systems change. NLC alumni are the driving force behind major cultural and electoral progress that takes years to build.
The person that is coming to NLC in any community is on the cusp of transformational leadership. They are making decisions about where they want to take their organization, their career, and their journey in service…Without training orgs like NLC, there isn’t a pathway for millennial and Gen Z leaders to elevate their leadership. Change has to happen at every level – and if we don’t have pathways to leadership the country cannot move forward.
NLC is a vibrant community that empowers you with vital skills and knowledge to impact the world’s most pressing problems. But perhaps more importantly, NLC bestows you with the moral courage to do so, from a community that believes in what you believe, in a moment that calls for bold and visionary leaders, thinkers, and doers.
NLC members and Fellows must stand in their purpose and declare their intent to move forward an equity-based agenda that focuses on solutions for our most marginalized communities.
Fellows in the 2022 NLC Institute class.
Of Fellows pay no tuition for the NLC Institute.
Volunteers leading our 50 state and local chapters.
Our signature program creates a leaderful movement
NLC Institute is a six-month place-based learning environment, delivered across the country in each of our chapters and offered at no cost to participants. Our chapters work with national and local trainers to implement the program, providing a premier training experience and a strong grounding in the local community.
From the Newsroom
Learn more about the collective impact our community of changemakers is making across the country.
Jamarr Brown’s (NLC Atlanta 2011) leadership journey is a testament to the transformative power of advocacy and community mobilization. From his early beginnings as a 15-year-old confronting the challenges of healthcare inequity, to becoming the first African American Executive Director of the Texas State Democratic Party, Jamarr has continuously championed justice and equity. Now, as the Executive Director of Color Of Change’s Political Action Committee (PAC), he leads the charge in holding elected officials accountable and advancing systemic change.
Read More →Black leadership is about legacy, resilience, and the ability to create lasting change. Few embody this as powerfully as Kamilia K. Landrum, the youngest and only the second woman to serve as Executive Director of the Detroit Branch NAACP, the largest NAACP branch in the nation. With deep roots in Detroit’s civil rights community, Kamilia has been a champion for civic engagement, voter rights, and social justice, ensuring that the NAACP remains a force for progress.
Read More →When leadership sparks more than just civic change, it can create lifelong partnerships. Clare Oumou Verbeten and Garrison McMurtrey’s story is a testament to how shared values, community commitment, and a little bit of fate can weave love into the fabric of leadership. As members of the 2017 NLC Twin Cities cohort, their connection blossomed from shared aspirations to serve into a partnership rooted in purpose. In A Match Made in Movement – NLC Love and Leadership, they reflect on how NLC not only shaped their leadership journeys but also led them to each other.
Read More →Invest in proximate leaders. Invest in NLC.
If we want to build the country we want to see, then we have to start by investing in leadership.