Emerging Leaders Program Application - Final Step

For your application to be complete, all documents must be received by 8:00 pm on August 18. If needed, you are able to “Save and Continue” this form, and will receive an automated email with a link to return to where you left off.

Please see below for the Application Questions Form. Additionally, please upload your résumé as a PDF, at the bottom of the Questions Form.

Application Questions
Please answer the following questions thoroughly so that can better get to know you and why you believe now is a good time to participate in the Emerging Leaders Program.
Name*
First Last
Preferred Email*
Describe your current (and/or past) role(s) in the organization or agency (provide details about your managerial responsibilities, projects led, community engagement and reporting relationships, etc.)
Describe any volunteer or community leadership role you’ve held in your community.
Why is now the right time for you to invest in your leadership development at this time (challenges, recent promotion, seeking opportunities to grow)? Please list any learning goals you would like to achieve through your participation in the program.
Please describe any challenges you face current in your role or leadership capacity. (Be honest with us so that we see if you would benefit from our program’s curriculum.)
Share with us the variety of ways you hope to benefit from your participation in this program:
Describe the future leadership contributions you hope to make in your organization and the Santa Barbara County Communities.
In what ways have you engaged in or invested in your continuous growth as a leader? (example: workshops, stretch projects, promotions, volunteer projects, seminars, books, coaching, mentors)
How might you contribute to creating our cohort's learning environment that is inclusive and welcoming to diverse viewpoints/experiences?
what is your learning edge as a leader in relationship to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion?
Current Résumé*
Accepted file types: pdf, Max. file size: 512 MB.

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Don’t forget!

Please follow up with the person completing the Recommendation Form that they have submitted it, or will submit by the deadline:

www.leading-from-within.org/emerging-leaders-application-recommendation-form/

*Please note by submitting this form the Board Chair, Executive Director or Supervising Manager acknowledges their full support of applicant to fulfill the stated program commitments.