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Welcome
Founded in 1976 to broaden & diversify the leaders making decisions about the Nashville's future, the LEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION engages, informs and inspires proven leaders with a three-dimensional view of this city. Metropolitan Nashville is a union of satellite cities and neighborhoods, participants live and work in communities that are near and yet worlds apart. Leadership Nashville plays a vital role in moving us forward as one city.
Founder Nelson Andrews, program designer Brent Poulton, PhD, and an impressive steering committee, determined that this educational program would have sustainable impact on Nashville’s long-term success. 47 years and 1,600+ alumni later, Nashville has been referred to as an “It City” for years now…many elements of our city's success can be linked to relationships formed among Leadership Nashville classmates that otherwise may not have occurred.
The vision continues today:
- To build channels of communication between established leaders.
- To connect these leaders with community issues.
- To equip participants with insights, not solutions.
Each year, proven leaders are selected from hundreds of applicants to experience an unbiased view of Metro Nashville Davidson County, including realities beyond the zip codes where they live and work. The men and women selected each year represent a diversity of races, religions, ages and political persuasions, as well as a geographical cross section of neighborhoods. Each class includes native Nashvillians and others who have moved here in leadership positions. Participants are educators, doctors, bankers, artists, businesspeople, rabbis, ministers, lawyers, and representatives of labor, public service, international communities and the volunteer sector.
Led by 300+ alumni volunteers, classes are exposed to subjects such as government, public safety, education, social services, transportation, business, religion, race relations, urban planning, media, the arts and more. If it impacts Nashville, program volunteers find a way to weave it into the seven 13-hour program days, bookended by two overnight retreats. When 46 very busy leaders invest this kind of time in getting to know our city and each other, the bond is strong enough to address any city challenge together.
We are proud of this ‘masters-level backstage pass to Nashville’ and look forward to many more decades of offering this program to proven leaders in our amazing city.
