|
The International Leadership Institute began with a mission to provide educational programs and services aimed at assisting American leaders in meeting the economic and political challenges of a changing world.
When the "wall fell" in East Berlin in 1989, many of the former soviet bloc countries joined the free-market global economy and the democratic political tradition. From 1989 to 2004, ILI focused its mission on providing executive education and leadership development programs delivered to business and professional leaders in East and Central Europe.
Beginning with programs for Czechs and Slovaks in 1991, the Institute's programs gradually expanded their scope to include programs tailored for business and professional leaders from Croatia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia and the Ukraine.
These executive education programs, based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Jacksonville Florida, were delivered in the U.S. They featured business seminars, professional internships and executive shadowing experiences in American organizations all over the country.
We delivered more than 90 such executive education programs in contractual joint venture agreements with respected organizations including the University of North Florida, the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the U.S. Department of State, through World Learning in Washington, DC.
Since 2006, ILI's focus has changed. As the historic economic and political transition of the 1990's in Central and Eastern Europe draws to a close, we are looking at other individual and social needs that are not yet met.
Spiritual rebuilding is one of those needs--as U.S. President Woodrow Wilson noted in 1923, "our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually." While continuing to offer practical assistance to people in the realms of career choice, language skill development and educational travel, we also offer programs and publications to help people develop the moral and spiritual aspects of their lives.
|
