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Flash Seminar: Rooting Our Leadership in Humanity – August 2025

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Date

Wed Aug 27, 2025
4:30pm – 5:30pm EDT

Location

Virtual

How do we embed our core values in our leadership vision and actions?

How do our perspectives on human nature play a role in our professional decisions?

Join us for a free Flash Seminar

Rooting Leadership in Humanity: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 from 4:30pm – 5:30pm ET

This one-hour virtual Flash Seminar–Rooting Leadership in Humanity–is chance to experience the Aspen method of text-based dialogue from the comfort of your home or office. Participants engage with a short reading as a jumping off point to explore fundamental questions about humanity and leadership; uncovering how your answers influence your personal and professional leadership decisions. 

THE FLASH SEMINAR IS AT FULL CAPACITY AND REGISTRATION IS CLOSED!

Why Attend?

This Flash Seminar is chance to reconnect with your own leadership journey. All Aspen Leadership Seminars leverage a unique method of moderated, text-based dialogue that transforms leaders’ ability to understand their own values and achieve meaningful leadership growth.

The flash seminar is also a glimpse into our flagship seminar: the Aspen Executive Seminars on Leadership, Values, and the Good Society. 


About our Aspen Leadership Seminars

Every Aspen Leadership Seminar starts from a simple premise: the difficult decisions leaders make are moral, not technical. Leaders must understand the values that animate their decisions.

Seminars are offered in a variety of formats and durations including in-person in Aspen, CO and virtually.

The Seminars department offer dynamic, challenging environments where you learn to leverage the values that drive your leadership and become a better leader.

Impact

Participants of our leadership seminars walk away with a(n):

  • Steadfast understanding of personal leadership values
  • Improved capacity to listen, communicate, and lead
  • Heightened ability to inspire others and drive change
  • Greater self-awareness and capacity for self-correction
  • Increased sense of purpose and mission
  • Enhanced understanding of what motivates people

Programs for Individuals

Our flagship seminar, the Aspen Executive Seminars on Leadership, Values, and the Good Society, is a 7-day residential seminar in Aspen, CO that challenges leaders in every field to achieve meaningful leadership growth through a critical examination of their core values as well as the tools to tackle their most pressing leadership challenges.

Programs for Organizations

We also partner with organizations to create custom leadership seminars. Using agile moderators and customized curricula to focus on core themes or challenges, collectively explore values, build a common language, and strengthen trust among teams, cohorts, stakeholders, clients, and more.

Have questions about Aspen Leadership Seminars?

Visit our home page to learn more about our leadership development programs or get in touch with specific leadership seminars questions—we’re happy to assist!

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