The Changing Faces Women's Leadership Seminar provides an annual opportunity for innovative women business and social entrepreneurs from the United States, Asia, and the Pacific to enhance their leadership skills and entrepreneurial capacity; build a sense of self-efficacy; strengthen societies through the pursuit of social entrepreneurship; and develop a global community of women leaders. Established in 2002 to address the challenges confronting working women entrepreneurs in the Asia Pacific, this 12-day immersive, leadership and professional development seminar seeks to:

• Enhance the entrepreneurial capacity and leadership skills of innovative women through facilitated training exercises, workshops, meetings; and community site visits;
• Implement a year-long project for the betterment of a participant’s business or community by means of a concrete Action Plan;
• Expand the social capital of participants and establish a community of women leaders via networking opportunities and on-going social media contact with speakers, trainers, Changing Faces alumni, the local community, and one another;
• Create regional awareness among participants through reciprocal learning and exposure to new ideas and divergent perspectives;
• Empower the next generation of women leaders in Hawaiʻi by way of a service project undertaken in partnership with local education organizations.

The Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar is funded by the East-West Center, the Fish Family Foundation, and others.

To date, 228 women from 36 countries have participated in the Changing Faces Seminar.

Program

During this 12-day professional training, dialogue and travel seminar, participants engage in a series of workshops focused on leadership and entrepreneurship. Participants also expand their knowledge of entrepreneurship, economic growth, leadership, and community building through carefully selected field visits and meetings with experts, practitioners, business owners, and policymakers in Hawaiʻi . Participants are individually matched with local women leaders in a Host Mentor Program and, in return, Changing Faces participants act as mentors for a select group of students in a Next Generation Service Project. The Changing Faces Seminar also provides training and consultative sessions to help participants develop and actualize a concrete Action Plan for the betterment of their business or their community. Finally, Changing Faces women serve as panelists, moderators and attendees at the publicly-ticketed #GalswithLEI, a purposeful, collaborative, and dynamic forum.

The Changing Faces Women's Leadership Seminar provides an annual opportunity for innovative women business and social entrepreneurs from the United States, Asia, and the Pacific to enhance their leadership skills and entrepreneurial capacity; build a sense of self-efficacy; strengthen societies through the pursuit of social entrepreneurship; and develop a global community of women leaders. Established in 2002 to address the challenges confronting working women entrepreneurs in the Asia Pacific, this 12-day immersive, leadership and professional development seminar seeks to:

• Enhance the entrepreneurial capacity and leadership skills of innovative women through facilitated training exercises, workshops, meetings; and community site visits;
• Implement a year-long project for the betterment of a participant’s business or community by means of a concrete Action Plan;
• Expand the social capital of participants and establish a community of women leaders via networking opportunities and on-going social media contact with speakers, trainers, Changing Faces alumni, the local community, and one another;
• Create regional awareness among participants through reciprocal learning and exposure to new ideas and divergent perspectives;
• Empower the next generation of women leaders in Hawaiʻi by way of a service project undertaken in partnership with local education organizations.

The Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar is funded by the East-West Center, the Fish Family Foundation, and others.

To date, 228 women from 36 countries have participated in the Changing Faces Seminar.

Program

During this 12-day professional training, dialogue and travel seminar, participants engage in a series of workshops focused on leadership and entrepreneurship. Participants also expand their knowledge of entrepreneurship, economic growth, leadership, and community building through carefully selected field visits and meetings with experts, practitioners, business owners, and policymakers in Hawaiʻi . Participants are individually matched with local women leaders in a Host Mentor Program and, in return, Changing Faces participants act as mentors for a select group of students in a Next Generation Service Project. The Changing Faces Seminar also provides training and consultative sessions to help participants develop and actualize a concrete Action Plan for the betterment of their business or their community. Finally, Changing Faces women serve as panelists, moderators and attendees at the publicly-ticketed #GalswithLEI, a purposeful, collaborative, and dynamic forum.

2024 Changing Faces Women's Leadership Seminar

July 21 - August 3, 2024

2023 Changing Faces Women's Leadership Seminar

July 23 - August 5, 2023

2021-2022 Changing Faces Women's Leadership Seminar

July 25-31, 2021; July 24 - August 6, 2022

2019 Changing Faces Women's Leadership Seminar

July 7-20, 2019