Our Leadership Academy is the premier program and pride & joy of the ELC.  This is an experience unlike any other in the world of public or private education and is our original program. Starting out in 2005 at Hopkinton Middle School, Evren ran a year long course on leadership offered to fifteen of his 8th grade students.  They met after school twice per month and then ran a single day leadership camp for forty of their peers as a culminating project.  Lives were changed and word spread.  The year long course and the single day camp fused to form the Leadership Academy, a week long summer camp-like experience spanning more than 40 hours of leadership education curriculum, small and large group interactions and an individual’s discovery of their own leadership and life potentials.

Academy Graduates, welcome to the ELC.

Graduates from the Leadership Academy become members of the globally acclaimed Enjoy Life Club. Following our full week of cutting edge Leadership Education, students participate in our ELC commencement which begins an empowering bond with their peers and former Academy graduates as members of our positive leadership based Club. Learn more →

Purpose

The Leadership Academy is designed to give students the ultimate experience in Leadership Education.  Our purpose is to educate, mentor, inspire and empower students to live with the core attitude that their value in the world is in direct proportion to what they give and do for others.  We ignite the understanding that you have to be able to lead yourself before you can lead and positively impact the lives of others.  The Leadership Academy takes students on a journey of self-discovery teaching them how living as a positive leader better’s the world and ultimately leads to a more fulfilled and enjoyable life! The Academy is for all students who…

• Possess interest in exploring and learning about their potential as a positive leader
• Want to improve their attitude and outlook on life
• Enjoy helping others, want to amplify their impact and strengthen relationships with friends and family
• Have ideas and a desire to advance the culture of their school groups or community
• Aspire to have more intrinsic motivation and maximize their personal potential in school and life
• Are part of a formal leadership team and want to train together to increase capacities to  lead effectively (i.e. sports captains, class officers, etc.)

Curriculum

Our Leadership Academy curriculum is dynamic and multi-faceted combining multiple forms of exceptional education practice. Students: engage in problem solving and team-building activities ♦ read, analyze and discuss actual case studies of people in leadership positions ♦ examine real and fictional characters from mainstream movies who demonstrate positive leadership traits ♦ participate in leadership role plays and  demonstrations ♦ connect in all the necessary environments to self-discover, ultimately learning and transforming from their Academy peers.   Learn more→

Outcomes

Leadership Academy graduates and Enjoy Life Club members are able to…

• Cultivate a strong awareness, appreciation, and understanding of self and others
• Live with positive energy and internal motivation as they recognize and engage their passions in life
• Realize and embrace the importance of other people, learning to actively listen and share
• Uncover the lessons and potentials for growth in daily experiences both positive and negative
• Understand that a life of enjoyment is in direct proportion to how much they make life enjoyable for others
• Apply these core values to live an impacting, meaningful and enjoyable life as a positive leader

Logistics

• The Leadership Academy is a one week experience that takes place during the summer
• Students sign up just as they would for a summer camp and may attend as individuals or as a group
• Attending groups may be sports captains, band leaders, class officers or any group in a leadership position
• Designed for students ages 14-18
• Maximum of 80 students per week so that each student gets individualized attention and support
• Students participate, learn and transform together in a safe and structured environment
• Each Leadership Academy is held on a college campus
• Students provide their own transportation to and from the Academy site
• The Leadership Academy runs from the morning through the afternoon with a break given for lunch
• Lunch and snacks are provided by the host college each day
• Students receive ELC binders, journals and pens
• Simple but meaningful missions are given to the students to complete each night of the Academy week
• Students participate in both full group and squad (small groups of 8-10) environments
• Squads are grouped by age and are run by former Leadership Academy graduates of college age
• ELC Teachers are formally trained by Evren in the arts and morality of exemplary teaching

For more information regarding the Leadership Academy, contact us here!