American Express Leadership Academy 2026 [The Americas]

Deadline: December 8, 2025

Applications are open for the American Express Leadership Academy 2026. For over a decade the American Express Leadership Academy has aimed to strengthen the non-profit sector by building the capacity of its leaders.

The programme is transformative by design. It gives non-profit leaders from diverse specialities and organizations a unique opportunity to learn from each other’s experiences, address current and future challenges within the sector, as well as gain insight from key leaders in social, public and private sectors.

Are you ready to drive change forward in your organization and help grow the foundations needed for the future success of the non-profit sector?

Benefits

• Active transformational learning: Highly interactive, hands-on format, experiential, social learning offering an opportunity to practice new behaviours and learn by doing.
• Real world: Rooted in real and live issues in a local context. Explored through the eyes of inspirational leaders who share how leadership works in their world.
• Powerful networks: Access to ongoing support from a diverse peer group and where you can work together on personal leadership challenges that matter to you.
• World class facilitators: Their facilitators co-design an experiential journey and psychologically safe space for learning in partnership with you, creating the conditions for rich feedback, open sharing, and experimentation
• Skills, mindsets & knowledge: They explore the three conditions needed to thrive in an ever-changing world, from attitudes and perspectives, to taking an actionable approach
• Practical tools and tactics: Real takeaways that you can continue to practice and apply in your everyday work

Eligibility

• They are looking for senior leaders, currently in or identified for executive roles in future
• Works for a registered non-profit
• In roles that require them to accelerate their ability to influence inside and outside their organizations
• With a track record of innovation, embraces change, and want to transform their team, organization and community
• Are able to fully commit to all parts of the American Express Leadership Academy including attendance at the in-person Academy, online sessions, engagement with peers, and commitment to being active in the community of Resilient Changemakers they are striving to develop.

They actively encourage applications from people of all faiths, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, economic circumstances, and backgrounds, as well as those from disabled communities.

Application

The in-person program for the American Express Leadership Academy 2026 for Americas will be held from March 17-20, 2026. Application deadline is December 8, 2025.

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For more information, visit American Express Leadership Academy.