Would you like to experience . . .

• Getting to know your Lexington neighbor in just a few minutes by lifting them into the air and passing them through a web of ropes?
   

• Spending a day away from your daily world with forty of your newest friends just to explore community sensitive issues?
   

• What makes you psychologically tick as a leader and how to harness and direct these skills to become highly effective?
   

• Standing in a Lexington County Field of Dreams and collard greens?
   

• Where the river flows and what flows into it by riding its current?
   

• Peering into the crystal ball of Lexington County history in order to predict the future?
   

• A ride with a deputy to discover your own version of life on the streets?
   

• Entering the front door of your corporate neighbor in order to understand their community role?

• The city skyline from the top of the Lexington Medical Center?
   

• Facing politicians, government officials and the local industry heads to ask those burning questions?

About the Program:

Both experienced and emerging leaders begin with a 12 week 40 hour leadership development program.  As part of the program they identify special problems in the county and focus on three to four to tackle.  The goal is to provide these leaders and potential leaders with the training they need to get involved in the decision making process in Lexington County.

Approximately 40 leaders take part in the intensive leadership training.  These groups have a racial, sex and age mix.  Project steps include:

Similar leadership programs in South Carolina which are based on Palmetto Leadership curriculum are responsible for establishing emergency 911 systems within counties, after school homework centers, educational scholarships, and high school leadership programs.