The APLP Experience: Navigating Change
The APLP experience is first and foremost about change.
Coursework and discussions engage critical processes of change affecting the region now and in the future.
By stepping out of specific individual areas of expertise (for example by discipline or country) and developing new analytic and leadership approaches participants come to have changed perspectives.
New insights on regional processes are coupled with opportunities to test and develop one's leadership capacity through experiential work with diverse co-participants.
The outcome of this process is an ability not only to cope with, or understand change, but to lead it.
Leaders who can successfully navigate change require creative vision and the capacity to chart and act upon that vision. The APLP experience is designed to yield just these sorts of outcomes.
Embracing and leading change takes time. The APLP is designed as a nine month program in order to maximize the depth and breadth of learning. The program grows from building an introductory base in the early weeks to applied leadership activities in the spring term. Each phase of the program has a distinct purpose and connection to the whole.
- Participants from the Philippines, Bhutan, Madagascar and Hong Kong discuss models of economic restructuring.
- Problem solving and intercultural exercises on Molokai Island (there are 10 nationalities in this photo).
- Meetings in Boardroom of IMF to discuss the organizations changing role in a 'post-Bretton-Woods world.'
- Participant Lisa Kaufman on a hardware run during Mekong Delta school renovation project.
