The National Leadership Academy (NLA) is an intensive four-day Academy for high school students, focusing on developing compassionate leaders through education and service. NLA features world-class speakers, service-learning opportunities, outdoor team-building exercises, & small group workshops to develop leadership skills, inspire purpose, and empower students to ask the question, "What more can I do to make a positive impact in my school, community, and the world?"

NLA is unique because we bring together the most diverse group of high school leaders from across the country and around the world from rising freshman to graduating seniors. Our one-of-a kind program welcomes all students from various socioeconomic, gender, cultural and religious backgrounds. They each come with their unique life stories, and have the opportunity to meet, share and realize that they are not alone in their leadership journeys and desires to change their schools, communities and our world. Students may attend alone or with a group of friends, but by the end of their experience at NLA they will go home with a new core group of friends that they can relate to and live their best life with.