The guiding purpose of the Leadership Initiative is to motivate young leaders across the region to move "from success to significance" by mobilizing their energies, their skills and the resources at their disposal to address the foremost social, economic and political challenges of their countries – and their times.

As such, an integral part of the Initiative experience is the performance of a leadership project by each of the Fellows during the fellowship period.

In designing and implementing these projects, it is expected that the Fellows will apply the sorts of leadership principles and practices we have studied together around the seminar table.

The ideal project will:

• Engage the Fellow’s personal passion
• Address a pressing need
• Be innovative and distinctive
• Make a real difference
• Be ambitious, a stretch
• Be able to show measurable results in 12-18 months
• Leverage the energy, skills and resources of others
• Take on a life of its own
• Promote the values the Fellow holds most dear
• Be a source of pride for the Leadership Initiative

If the project is building on something that a Fellow is already doing, it should be an addition, extension, enhancement, expansion or acceleration of that activity.

In the months following the Good Values – the second in the series of four Leadership Initiative seminars – the Fellows will convene to share, critique and approve their project proposals.

At the third and fourth seminars, the Fellows will share their progress – successes and challenges – with their peers.