Invest in Your Leadership Skillset
What makes LEAD different?
Membership profile
Some of the best insights, ideas, and innovations happen when people from multiple industries and company sizes get together. The demographics of LEAD membership include:
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Fee breakdown
- $1,495 per season (September 2023 - May 2024) with an early bird discount of $100 if enrolled by September 1, 2023
- 10% off each additional seat after three seats
- Company seat license, unlimited virtual, $10,000
- Company seat license, unlimited in person, $8,000
- Individual sessions are available at $300 per session
Frequently asked questions
LEAD stands for Learn, Engage, and Develop. It is a topic-driven discussion and development training series for people responsible for leadership, human resources compliance, and culture within organizations.
There are two versions of LEAD: Foundations and Experienced, each has distinct targets and topics.
- Foundations LEAD Roundtables focus on workshops that present the full range of human resources compliance topics, over a 9-month period. These topics and their order do not change year to year.
- Experienced LEAD Roundtables focus on issues facing leaders today. These topics are covered over a 9-month period and change year to year, based on the input and votes of prior-year members.
LEAD is geared toward leaders and non-leaders responsible for human resources in their companies.
- Foundations LEAD Roundtables are for people who are responsible for compliance areas of human resources. Past members have included administrative all the way up to general manager level.
- Experienced LEAD Roundtables generally target leaders in organizations with responsibility for leadership development, influencing culture, and building strong leadership skills. Past members have included leaders of all types, managers, and business owners.
LEAD is presented monthly, for three hours, from September to May each year.
Yes. We try and take two to three breaks for members to check emails and respond to other needs.
LEAD is primarily designed to be presented in person. However, virtual sessions were available over the last several seasons. We annually evaluate whether presenting virtually is achieving the interaction and learning that our members and CLA expect.
Yes. Although your experience will differ within the various mediums.
Virtual participation will require members to turn on their cameras and microphones (if they have them) and be ready to participate. The instructor will call on people randomly to make sure they are engaging.
In-person participation will get members talking with each other and with the instructor, who will call on people randomly to make sure they are engaging.
Yes, certainly! Though learning is more beneficial when people are engaging and participating, there is still a lot of value in sitting in on the sessions and using the chat functions to participate and ask questions.
The topics presented in LEAD build on each other. Members can attend one of multiple sessions on each topic and are encouraged to attend as many as possible.
Yes!