The Best Leadership Development Programs

It’s funny…I just Googled “Best Leadership Development Programs” and was informed that there are about 270,000 pages out there! What?!!   That’s crazy.  But what’s even crazier is the fact that nobody knows what the best leadership development programs truly are. Seriously.

Let me explain, from an insider’s perspective.

As adjunct faculty at the National Leadership Institute, I have been helping run various leadership development modules in their flagship “Leadership Development Program”, developed by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL).  When I was there in 2003, in BusinessWeek’s 2003 Executive Education Special Report, they ranked the Center for Creative Leadership first in the world for leadership development. First in the world! Wow.

It turns out that CCL has been ranked in the Top 10 for over 12 years straight by Financial Times.

Pretty impressive.

I love being associated with CCL programs. The programs are great.  They are inspiring. But I question anybody’s attempt so far to decide who has “the best leadership development program.”

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