Deadline:
November 07, 2024
Program Starts: April 25, 2025
Program Ends: September 12, 2025
Location(s)
United States of America
Honolulu
Overview
The Asia Pacific Leadership Program brings together diverse individuals who want to co-create a future that is peaceful, prosperous, and just. Through place-based learning that is experiential and transformational, APLP fellows practice leadership strategies that enhance personal, team, and community effectiveness. Fellows reflect on what kind of leadership today’s world needs, and build the capacities needed for such leadership.
Details
The APLP Approach:
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Place-Based: Focuses on leadership in context and builds on communities’ diversity and abundance
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Experiential: Supports Fellows as they practice leadership together, reflect on results, and refine their strategies for greater impact
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Transformational: Fosters individual and collective growth for emerging and established leaders
For 20 years, we have been cultivating leaders who are motivated and capable of creating positive impacts in the Asia Pacific region and beyond. Incoming Fellows join a network of 650+ APLP alumni from 45 countries across the globe.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Eligibility Criteria
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited higher education institution in the United States, or equivalent degree representing a full-time program of study of at least 3 years' duration, from an officially-recognized higher education institution outside of the United States.
- At least 5 years of work experience
- Applicants will be expected to have a fluent level of English. Applicants are encouraged to provide an English language test score (such as IELTS), if one is available.
- A demonstrated commitment to promoting peace and prosperity in the Indo-Asia Pacific region through professional work, study or living experience
- There are no citizenship, age, or ethnicity restrictions.
Desirable Qualifications
- Leadership track record in professional, public, and/or personal realms
- Willingness to engage fully in experiential leadership development training
- Deep involvement in a specific organization, business or community impact initiative (applicants must explain how, with their home-setting teams, they will experiment with the leadership strategies learned in APLP)
- International experience and aptitude, including overseas residence, language skills, intercultural and diversity exposure
- Experience of cohort learning, working collaboratively in small teams or in large groups.
Non-U.S. participants are expected to enter the U.S. under the J-1 (exchange visitor) visa sponsorship of the East-West Center.
Dates
Deadline: November 07, 2024
Program starts:
April 25, 2025
Program ends:
September 12, 2025
Program Starts: April 25, 2025
Program Ends: September 12, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
Supplemental Scholarships
Supplementary scholarships are available to help defray the cost of program fees and accommodations. To apply for scholarships, please indicate this on your application in the scholarship section. Scholarships take the form of endowed fellowships, annual gifts and occasional awards, and are subject to availability and change. APLP supplemental scholarships derive from a variety of public and private granting agencies, institutions, governments and individuals, including East-West Center alumni. Accepting scholarships may have U.S. and state of Hawai‘i tax implications.
The APLP is extremely grateful for support from the Hawai‘i Pacific Rim Society Fellowships, Jhamandas Watumull Fellowships, Jean E. Rolles Fellowships, Eleanor and Hermann Haus Fellowships, Buddy and Melga Torre Gendrano Fellowships, and the Nainoa Thompson Fellowship to name a few.
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