Non Technical Summary
The Food Systems Leadership Institute (FSLI) provides leadership development to upper-level leaders in higher education, government, NGOs, and industry. The FSLI provides Fellows with strategies to handle the leadership challenges and opportunities for the future, specifically focusing on maximizing personal leadership, leading organizational change, and understanding food and agriculture systems. The two-year FSLI experience includes three week-long residential sessions, personal leadership coaching, mentoring, individual leadership projects, a personal development plan, and distance learning opportunities.Today's leaders face increasingly complex opportunities and challenges and must draw on diverse experiences and ideas to address these issues. The partnership with NIFA makes FSLI available to leaders, especially from smaller institutions or from 1890 and 1994 universities, that might be unable to participate due to funding restraints.

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
001	0001	0001	100%

Knowledge Area
001 - Administration;

Subject Of Investigation
0001 - Administration;

Field Of Science
0001 - Administration;

Goals / Objectives
The Food Systems Leadership Institute (FSLI) provides leadership development to upper-level leaders in higher education, government, NGOs, and industry. The FSLI provides Fellows with strategies to handle the leadership challenges and opportunities for the future, specifically focusing on maximizing personal leadership, leading organizational change, and understanding food and agriculture systems. The program develops and reinforces a series of core leadership competencies, which have been identified by a team of top-level leaders, including university presidents, chancellors, and leaders from industry and the non-profit sector, who understand the requirements of food systems leadership. These professionals offer a wealth of understanding about leadership and the food system to help the Fellows better understand their leadership potential. The two-year FSLI experience includes three week-long residential sessions, personal leadership coaching, mentoring, individual leadership projects, a personal development plan, and distance learning opportunities.Today's leaders face increasingly complex opportunities and challenges and must draw on diverse experiences and ideas to address these issues. This project aims to increase the cohort's diversity by making FSLI available to leaders who might not be able to participate in FSLI due to funding restraints. In particular, leaders from smaller institutions, especially non-land grant universities or from 1890 and 1994 universities, may need more resources.

Project Methods
FSLI will hold three week long residential sessions, as well as provide personal leadership coaching, mentoring, and distance learning opportunities. The Fellows will each create and implement a personal development plan and an individual leadership project as part of the program. Each portion of the FSLI experience is subject to continuous assessment and evaluation.