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ABOUT THE ASPEN INSTITUTE: OUR APPROACH TO LEADERSHIP
The Aspen Institute was founded in 1950 as The Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Its premise was—and is—that the challenges we face are challenges of the human spirit, that the decisions we make are ultimately moral not technical, and that we all need time and space to step back from practical affairs to reflect on the values by which we live and lead. For almost 75 years, through leadership seminars, non-partisan policy programs, and public programs, the Aspen Institute has been a forum for exploring the tensions among the competing values which inform individual, organizational, social, and political decisions.
Walter Paepcke, the founder of the Aspen Institute remarked that the Aspen Seminar experience was intended to help leaders become “more self-aware, more self-correcting, and more self-fulfilling.” Simply, we cannot lead others unless we know how to lead ourselves. The people we lead may have values or priorities different from our own—to lead others we must understand their values. Moreover, individual values, organizational values, and social values are rarely aligned. All Aspen Institute Leadership Seminars are rooted in the question: “How can we ensure that our leadership decisions in each sphere allow people to live more justly in a good society?”
CLARIFY VALUES. catalYZE ACTION.
Seminar premise
The truly difficult problems leaders face are ultimately human problems: problems concerning relationships to ourselves, to others, to our organizations, and to society. We cannot lead others through this complex landscape until we fully understand it and know how to navigate it ourselves.
Aspen Method of Leadership Development
The Aspen Method appeals to both the professional and the personal dimensions of leading. The small group, text-based dialogue process will challenge you to expand your perspectives, refine your understanding, and become more resolved in action
We had the first meeting of the Aspen Institute Colombia where members of our whole community gathered together.
The Aspen Ideas Festival firmly believes that ideas should not exist in isolation, even if such a thing were possible. This Festival has dedicated two decades to bringing together the most incisive and transformative insights, and presenting them by (and for) the world's most active and committed thinkers.
The Aspen Ideas Festival has discovered that when great ideas come together—and when great minds come together to receive them—they become something greater. Ideas become more than possibilities, promises, or mere changes in perspective. In the minds and lives of the participants, they become a new vision of the world as it could be.
