About the Aspen Leadership Network

The Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN) is comprised of highly successful entrepreneurial leaders with a focus on values and sights on creating a better society.  In being a part of a global network with access to some of the most talented like-minded individuals around the world and the support of the Aspen Institute, these leaders are able to help each other to become more deliberate and impactful in their efforts to make their communities, societies, and the world a better place. Read More.

B-Corps for India

After sitting next to B Lab Co-Founder and Henry Crown Fellow Jay Coen Gilbert at dinner during ACT II, India Leadership Initiative Fellow Neera Nundy decided to bring the concept of Benefit Corporations (companies that incorporate social and environmental aims with business) to India. With invaluable perspective from B Lab's experience in the US, Neera is now taking an amendment forward in the Indian parliament committee that would establish benefit corporations. For more on B Lab, see their recent coverage on CBS news and the PBS Newshour.

The Network at Work

Liberty Fellow Will Huss met Africa Leadership Initiative West Africa Fellow Hazel Berrard-Amuah at their Leading in an Era of Globalization seminar in Aspen last year. Will was so moved by Hazel's project, a program for Ghanaian orphans in rural villages, that he was compelled to get involved. Never having been to Africa, Will stepped up to become one of the Directors of the Reach Out and Share Foundation and has taken it in new directions: ramping up fundraising, coordinating adoptions with families in the US, and more.

Salvadoran Fellows Bridge the Idealogical Divide

Four Salvadoran Fellows from the Central America Leadership Initiative (Rodrigo Simán, Hugo Martinez, Tomás Calderón and Claudia Umaña) have come together across political and ideological divides to create Fundación DTJ (Democracy, Transparency, and Justice Foundation). In an environment of stark political polarization in El Salvador, the public partnership between stakeholders from the right and left is unprecedented and has enormous potential to create change. Read more/ English translation.