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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.
Over
the past nine years 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 spiritual aspects
of their lives.
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