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Leadership Fellows Program


2021–2022 ARL Leadership Fellows at University of Calgary

The Leadership Fellows Program (LFP) is a thirteen-month hybrid experience that provides the next generation of senior and executive leaders with exceptional opportunities for growth in research libraries and archives. Through a multifaceted curriculum, peer and individual mentoring, self-assessment, executive coaching, and site visits, the LFP builds upon each participant’s foundations and enhances skills to develop innovative and successful leaders of complex organizations. Participants also form a lifelong community of supportive colleagues that extends far beyond the program.  

The Leadership Fellows Program’s combination of curriculum, coaching, mentoring, individualized learning, and site visits will:

  • Create an exemplary developmental and exploratory experience for senior research library and archive leaders who seek to make a difference, from ARL member institutions and across the profession
  • Expand the diversity and overall pool of talented leaders for research libraries and archives
  • Provide guided, structured, learning opportunities for senior library and archive leaders to build relationships; encounter and learn from top-level leaders in higher education, public policy, and the research and learning enterprise; and cultivate a network of community support
  • Equip aspiring senior library and archive leaders with the skills and knowledge to:
    • Navigate intense and ongoing challenges
    • Steer institutions through productive and inclusive change that responds to and engages key stakeholders
    • Build diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations that exemplify the potential of broad-based, socially conscious change in learning and research communities and that recognize the opportunities and challenges within parent institutions
  • Nurture a diversity of talent that can further the capacities and capabilities of research libraries and archives as collaborative partners in the broader research and learning ecosystem

The LFP is supported by the LFP Task Force and LFP Selection Working Group.


  • LFP Current Fellows

    Below is the roster of the 2023 Leadership Fellows. ...

  • LFP Components

    The Leadership Fellows Program provides exceptional opportunities for growth in research library and archives leadership; enriching exposure to innovative and successful leaders in libraries, public policy, scholarship, research, and higher...

  • LFP Application, Eligibility, and Tuition

    Review the application, eligibility, and tuition for the 2023 Leadership Fellows Program. ...

  • LFP Alums

    Past Leadership Fellows are listed below. Listed information was current at the time of program participation....


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