The Challenge of Leadership Seminar

From March 16 to March 20, 2010, the fifth class of Central America Leadership Iniciative Foundation, self-named, CA-LIbre, gathered at INCAE’s Walter Kissling Gam Campus in Alajuela, Costa Rica, for The Challenge of Leadership Seminar (the first seminar of the serie of four leadership seminars). This was a very heterogeneous group of  twenty four Fellows in the  business sector, civil society, government and non profit leaders between the ages of 30 and 45.  

This seminar is the beginning of a leadership development process and cover an extensive array of leadership issues. During those days, Fellows shared, as a group, their opinions about what they considered good leaders should perform.  They also explored and studied a  diversity of well known international leaders from different areas including Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Lee Kwan Yew, Jean Monnet and Niccolo Machiavelli.  

After reading, analyzing and discussing all these interesting characters,  and guided by Aspen Institute senior moderator, Stace Lindsay, along with Harry Strachan, Aspen Institute trained moderator and Sylvia Gereda, moderator in training,   Fellows began to understand their commitment as Central American Leaders.  They were able to execute significant positives changes in order to live in a better society. They also spent time together working in small groups on personal leadership challenges and creating many strategies for developing their own leadership manuals.

The CA-LIbre will meet again from August 23 to August 27, INCAE’s Francisco de Sola Campus in Managua, Nicaragua for their second seminar, ¨ The Aspen Seminar¨.