Vermont Leadership Institute
"Our pride in Vermont and its history is one of our strengths. . . It is an exceptional quality which encourages Vermonters to seek to do more than might otherwise seem possible."
- Governor Richard A. Snelling
Created by the Snelling Center for Government in 1995, the Vermont Leadership Institute ("VLI"), the state’s premier leadership development program, launched its first class in September 1995. Those first associates graduated the following June. Every September since, a group of inspired and committed Vermonters with strong interest in leadership and service has embarked on the ten-month VLI journey. Every June adds another twenty-five, or so, alumni to an ever-growing, ever more powerful leadership network in Vermont.
- VLI is an intensive program consisting of eight overnight sessions, totaling eighteen seminar days between September and June. Each session is held in a different region of the state to convey a sense of Vermont’s rich historic, geographic, and cultural diversity.
- VLI seeks to stimulate citizen enthusiasm for and participation in public service, to enable Vermonters to take thoughtful action within the public sector, and to improve the capacity of our citizens to work together and bring about positive change.
- VLI recruits Vermont’s best and brightest from the private, public, and non-profit sectors.
- VLI engages outstanding faculty from across the state and throughout the nation.
- VLI provides participants with the information, the tools, and the inspiration to make greater contributions to their organization, to their profession, and to Vermont.
For more information about the leadership programs at the Snelling Center for Government, please contact Judy Warriner Walke or Colleen Oettinger.