Leadership Lessons

AI governance requires trustworthy, values-driven leadership

What does values-driven leadership look like in the world of artificial intelligence (AI)? And what responsibilities do AI consumers have?

AI x Power Action Roundtable at the 2024 Action Forum

Values in Action: How the Medal of Honor Center is Redefining Leadership Development

The National Medal of Honor Center for Leadership is transforming how we understand and teach values-based leadership. In this Behind the Impact interview, we speak with Joe Waring (Liberty Fellow) who serves on the Center’s board, and Dr. Justin Habash, the Center’s Senior Vice President of Leadership Programs and Chief Learning Officer. Together, they share insights on how Medal of Honor values translate to everyday leadership decisions, the power of moral courage, and why this approach to leadership development is especially relevant in today’s rapidly changing world.

Joe Waring and Justin Habash

If factions are a feature — not a bug — of a society, creative conflict helps us design new ways forward.

How do we listen even when we are the most hurt? How do we disagree without disappearing?

At the Resnick Aspen Action Forum, changemakers explored what it means — and what it takes — to stay at the table during the most difficult moments. This conversation turns toward clues in history, reminding us that the institutions of today were once the result of creative innovation.

Taking inspiration from youth and the artistic community as sources of “research and development,” this conversation invites us to wrestle with tension rather than treating conflict as failure, allowing us to remain in relationship through our differences. Whether operating in small towns in a single U.S. state like South Carolina, or across multiple nations in the Middle East, panelists discussed the conditions that we can create in ourselves and in our communities to design new ways forward.

Conflict and Civil Discourse Action Roundtable

In Session: Carly Zakin

Carly Zakin, Henry Crown Fellow, on leading through the unknown.

The Power of Place: Leadership and Belonging in Rural Communities

A conversation about finding and fostering leadership in rural places.

To Find Your Role, Keep Inspiration Close | Leadership Lessons

As the pandemic took hold of the world around her, Aviva Nassimi felt a deep urgency to find her role in helping communities who were being disproportionally impacted.

Becoming a Bridge Builder | Leadership Lessons

Maria Alejandra is leading the COVID-19 response for one of the largest public hospitals in Honduras.

Forging Human Connections | Leadership Lessons

Six weeks after Kofi Bruce was named Chief Financial Officer at General Mills, the pandemic changed the way the company worked. Now, having served in the role for more than a year, we asked him: What were your biggest learnings?