DEVELOPING LEADERS

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES

Click here for an overview of the range of professional development resources we share with our alumni to help them advance their career.

MENTORSHIP

Our community boasts a broad range of professional skills, expertise and work experience across various disciplines. Alumni looking to advance in their career or break out into a field of their choosing could gain valuable knowledge from a structured mentoring program.

Our Alumni Network offers a mentoring tool which allows users to become mentors to one another however, we have seen low levels of organic engagement through these online mentoring and networking tools. Given the significant potential in this area, we believe a targeted mentoring program will increase interest and participation in mentoring relationships within our alumni community.

We've launched four Alumni Mentorship Programs. Click here to learn more.

WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

The lack of women in leadership inhibits productivity and performance of work places and has individual and national health, education, political and socioeconomic impacts. With this in mind, to honor International Women's Day in 2021, we partnered with the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford who generously offered to donate a place on their Women's Leadership Development Programme for a member of our community to participate.

After an in depth application process, we selected Haiti program alumnus Michelle Walters. It was abundantly clear she wants to become a leader who can spot potential in others and help them amplify their voice. Michelle stated in her application that she would like to lead and support diversity initiatives and share what she’s learned on the course with other women, especially those from the AHAH community.

You can read more about the promotion and selection process here.

ADVANCING LEADERSHIP SKILLS TO RESPOND TO THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY

The UN Climate Change report, Interconnected Disaster Risks, identifies three root causes that affected most of the events in the analysis: human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, insufficient disaster risk management and undervaluing environmental costs and benefits in decision-making.

It’s vital then that we do our part to engage in activities which serve to reduce immediate and deep emissions, take steps to improve disaster risk management where we can, and consider the environmental impact of our organizational decisions.

To mark Zero Emissions Day 2022, we have partnered with the Saïd Business School, belonging to the prestigious University of Oxford. They have generously offered to donate a place on their Climate Emergency Programme for a member of our community to participate in this 6-week online executive course.

The research and insight shared throughout the programme contributes to the Oxford #TruePlanet initiative, which brings together partners across industry, government, the third sector, and education, to explore climate solutions