Focus on Leadership

Focus on Leadership has been established to provide highly motivated individuals firsthand information and experiences in the educational process of issues affecting local, state, and national communities as well as a sense of personal involvement in the leadership of society. The program seeks to draw exceptionally promising people from all sectors of life - professionals, entrepreneurs, the arts, government, and the academic world. It is essential to the healthy functioning of our system that we have an understanding-gained first hand-of the problems of the past, present and future generations. In a day when many individuals feel increasingly remote from the centers of power and decision making positions, such leaders can help their fellow citizens comprehend the process by which these can be obtained.

In our society today, great numbers of skilled professionals are produced; but too few of this intellectual elite return to society the leadership and guidance needed in public affairs. If the past generations could produce Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nat Turner, Mary McCleod-Bethune, W.E.B. Dubois, Madam C. J. Walker, Mahalia Jackson, and others of extraordinary talent, comprehensiveness and exceptional leadership abilities, should we not in this generation be able to produce ten times that number? Focus on Leadership aims to do just that.

Much unrefined material is still available and more must be done to develop our ablest people to inspire and facilitate the emergence of such leaders. Their Horizons and experience must be broadened to give them a sense of personal involvement in the leadership of society, a vision of greatness for society and a sense of responsibility for bringing that greatness to reality.

The Focus on Leadership program promises to give qualified individuals precisely those experiences.