Obama Foundation Leaders Program 2027/2028 – 9 novembre 2026

Contexte

Applications are now open for the 2027/2028 Obama Foundation Leaders Program. Call for Applications Obama Foundation’s Leaders Program 2027/2028 for emerging leaders worldwide. The Obama Foundation Leaders Program is an eight-month, global virtual leadership development journey. Designed for changemakers aged 24 to 45 across various sectors, the program brings together diverse cohorts to collaborate, share insights, and strengthen their values-based leadership. The program is open across four regions and free to all participants. Obama Foundation’s Africa Leaders Program Leaders Africa is an eight-month, hybrid leadership journey for 35 leaders from across the African-continent, focused on exploring values-based leadership skills and building deep relationships with fellow cohort members. The Leaders Africa program identifies exceptional trailblazers in public, civil society, and the private sector who have a clear issue-focus and who can illustrate the impact of their work. The program helps build a network of values-based leaders, who create positive, innovative change in their communities, throughout Africa, and around the world.

Profil recherché

Across the spectrum of diversity, the program endeavor to identify applicants and invite Leaders to the program who:

• Possess a clear issue of focus and can describe or measure their impacts.
• Hold a leadership position in their changemaking work, whether full-time or volunteer (there are no leadership rank or title requirements).
• Demonstrate a deeply ethical, values-based, equitable, and collaborative approach to leadership.
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn from and share with other Leaders in a group setting.

Missions et responsabilités

For an average of 8-12 hours per month, the program will bring together cohorts of leaders from across the regions. Participants (known as “Obama Leaders” or “Leaders”) will take part in weekly sessions that include:

• Practical tools and training for deepening values-based leadership
• Curated spaces for deep personal reflection and interpersonal learning with peers
• Community groups
• Conversations with thought leaders
• Leadership coaching
• Cultural programming that showcases the richness of diversity in the region
• Weekly Group Learning Sessions: Weekly virtual group sessions offer a mix of collective engagement including conversations on leadership frameworks, engagements with regional-based individuals in relevant subject areas, and interactive, small-group work in breakout spaces.
• Monthly Community Groups: Leaders work in learning groups with their other program participants that encourage deeper relationship-building and peer-learning, and offer opportunities to reflect on case studies of prominent African leaders and issues.
• Individualized Leadership and Regional Coaching: Each Leader is supported by a cadre of coaching engagements to help them gain self-awareness, clarify goals, brainstorm ideas, achieve their development objectives, unlock their potential, and dive into more specificity on issue-based area regional challenges and opportunities.

Conditions et avantages

The program is free to all participants. It is an eight-month, global virtual and hybrid leadership development journey across four regions.

Comment postuler

Application Deadline: December 4, 2026. For More Information: Visit the Official Webpage of the Obama Foundation’s Leaders Program.