Emerging Leaders

Registration for the 2023 Emerging Leaders Series cohorts are now open!

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About the Program

If you are a professional with a passion for growing your career and becoming actively engaged in the community, the Emerging Leaders Series offers the ideal setting to expand your horizons.

Make Grand Rapids your classroom with five half-day sessions that combine tours, speakers, activities, and interdisciplinary discussions that build community connections, leadership skills, and insight into issues facing Grand Rapids. Plus, you’ll discover new opportunities to engage in the community.

This program is right for you if you are looking for:

Conversations with key community leaders
Visits to innovative community programs and initiatives
Networking with a diverse group of peers
An orientation to the city and what makes it a unique community
Personal leadership development

This professional development opportunity is particularly valuable for young and early-career professionals, as well as those with a keen interest in our community and growing professionally.

Chamber leadership programs prioritize creating spaces where diverse perspectives can come together to learn, grow and push our community forward.

2023 Session Dates, Program Details & Cost

Cohort 1

All sessions are hosted bi-weekly on Wednesday between 11:45 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

April 5: Orientation & Building Relationships
April 10: Your Community
May 3: Finding Your Strengths
May 17: Leading in Different Ways
May 31: You Are Next

Cohort 2

All sessions are hosted bi-weekly on Wednesday between 11:45 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

October 17: Orientation & Building Relationships
October 31: Your Community
November 14: Finding Your Strengths
November 28: Leading in Different Ways
December 12: You Are Next

Attendance at all program sessions is mandatory to achieve the full value of the program. If you cannot adjust your schedule to accommodate full participation, please consider applying at a time when you have greater flexibility. If selected, the participants’ employer will be required to provide a signature agreeing to their full support for the employee’s time required to participate in the Emerging Leaders Series.

Cost and Scholarships

Program Cost: Tuition must be paid in full by the first class session.

Chamber Member: $1500

Non-Member: $2000

If you have questions on payment or need to discuss setting up a payment plan, please contact Kessia Graves, Leadership Program Coordinator, at [email protected]. There are a limited number of partial scholarship funds available. Please submit the following scholarship application form NO LATER than 30 days prior to the first session to be considered.

Scholarship Application