The Academy’s Annual International Leadership Conference offers a forum for continued professional development, interaction, engagement, and networking, while recognizing exemplary leadership and leaders. A key ingredient to our success is the ability to connect and cultivate a leadership community, providing a forum for collaboration, insight, and discovery. With a 30-year history offering world-class, competency-based leadership development programs and services, the Academy develops transformational leaders. Our mission is centered around advancing academic and administrative leadership across all levels of higher education. The Academy is a premier leadership development organization for higher education and organizational leaders globally. By working together, these teams will accomplish more than any individual member ever could.' If successful, the leader will have constructed teams that carry out the organizations vision, goals and purpose. ' The leader of the future must be tireless, inventive, observant, risk-taking, an ever-hopeful builder and enabler of management and leadership teams within the college.