Overall, the Institute will prepare world-class leaders for conservation. The result will be leaders better able to take on the challenges of leading tomorrow – better able to deal with a myriad of complex and interconnected problems and challenges. The Institute graduates will be an elite class of leaders that can take conservation into the new millennium. Albert Einstein once said, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

• A conservation leadership mindset with increased skills and abilities to address increasingly complex conservation challenges.

• Enhanced emotional intelligence for leading others effectively.

• Increased effectiveness at leading organizational change to meet new demands and challenges.

• Increased ability to distinguish between technical problems and adaptive problems and choose the proper tools and techniques to most effectively deal with each.

• Increased effectiveness at creating a motivating work environment.

• Increased quantity and quality of lifetime inter-organizational professional networks.