The nation's top leadership thinkers combine with top natural resources leaders for a one-of-a-kind experience –World renowned leadership experts from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the best teachers of  Adaptive Leadership™ on the planet, together with nationally recognized natural resource conservation leaders, dynamically ground all learning with real case stories and examples from the “trenches” of natural resource conservation.

• Highest-level professional networking – Participants come from organizations across the broad natural resources conservation community, providing a valuable professional network to draw upon in the future.

• A wonderful cost to benefit value – The Institute is committed to making this world-class opportunity financially attainable by providing a seventy-five to ninety percent reduction in costs for a program of this caliber.
  
  
• The best from yesterday with the best of tomorrow— The Institute bridges the wisdom from those who are leading within the conservation community now, or who have led in the past, with those who are challenged to become conservation’s leaders of the future.
  
  
• Leaders leading leaders – An inter-organizational natural resources board composed of many of today’s natural resource leaders directs the Institute.