The National Conservation Leadership Institute
Preparing extraordinary conservation leaders
Welcome to the NCLI.
Welcome to the National Conservation Leadership Institute (NCLI, Institute) website!
These are challenging times for everyone, and the urgency and need for significantly increasing leadership capacity within natural resource organizations is unparalleled.
A Powerful Conservation Network
Completing the NCLI experience bonds you with other Fellows in leadership positions around the nation — creating a network that is invaluable in professional conservation work.
Learning Sphere
The right content, the right environment, the right amount of intensity, the right time frame, and the right teachers combined with the right mix of people to create a remarkable convergence.
Adaptive Leadership
Marty Linsky of the Cambridge Leadership Associates and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, introduces Adaptive Leadership, the connective theme throughout the curriculum.
Conflict
Hugh O’Doherty of the Cambridge Leadership Associates and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, discusses conflict and the role it plays in leadership.
When it’s nice, we take the learning outside…like most conservation related professionals like to do.
Cohort 1 — Pioneers or Guinea Pigs?—either way we are indebted to this
cohort for piloting the way.
The Need
We are in a new era. A time in which the organizational guardians of our natural resource legacy find themselves facing unprecedented challenges in a rapidly changing landscape. Their challenges are exacerbated by the immense leadership void created from vast numbers of retiring baby boomers. An unparalleled solution is offered...the National Conservation Leadership Institute.
"I don't think there's been a single day when I haven't thought about NCLI or used a concept I learned. Powerful stuff." - Scot Kofron
Our Supporters:
Supporters like these help make the NCLI possible. To learn more about each of our current supporters, please mouse over the logos to the left.
MAT
The Management Assistance Team (MAT) is a program of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA). MAT staffs the NCLI. In addition, MAT supports the NCLI through in-kind donations. Outside of its service to the NCLI, MAT provides consulting and training for state fish and wildlife agencies.
AFWA
The Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies represents North America’s fish and wildlife agencies to advance sound, science-based management and conservation of fish and wildlife and their habitats in the public interest.
USFWS/NCTC
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is a branch of the Department of Interior, and the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) is the training center for the Service. The Service and NCTC are partners with the NCLI and provide financial as well as in-kind support for the NCLI. The first of the NCLI’s two residencies is held on the NCTC campus.
Each of these wonderful organizations has also generously lent its support to the NCLI's efforts.
