Our Impact
Our Fellowship
The Fellowship experience changes how leaders lead—how they run their organizations, contribute to their communities and society, and make tough decisions.
Recognizing the unique opportunity to leverage their collective influence across the finance ecosystem, Fellows are answering the call to act together in key areas, like closing the racial wealth gap, investing in the next generation of women finance leaders, advancing ESG initiatives, and leading on the new frontiers of crypto and digital finance.
Since its founding in 2016, the Fellowship has empowered Fellows to make values-based and purpose-driven commitments in their lives and leadership.
Personal Transformation and the Power of the Network
The Fellowship is deeply transformative for Fellows, inspiring them to become more values-based and purpose-driven in their lives and leadership and providing the collective will to use the global FLF community as a critical platform to mobilize support and collaboration for impact.
As a result of the Fellowship:
stretched themselves in new ways, taking on risks or challenges that they otherwise may not have taken
modeled new leadership mindsets and practices
engaged deeply with their peers to seek advice, collaborate, and work toward personal, professional and societal change goals
“Often, leadership can be lonely, and, at times it can be draining. You are called upon to give and create energy for others, but leaders also need to get and restore energy in order to remain effective. The Aspen Fellowship has done that for me, fulfilling energy, connecting my leadership with purpose, and allowing me to remain thoughtful about where my footprints leave an impact.”
– Kofi Bruce, CFO, General Mills
Minneapolis, MN
“My journey in the Fellowship has made me a more empathetic, authentic, and courageous leader and especially helped me prepare to co-lead my firm’s response to COVID-19. Never has a crisis demanded more from us as leaders, and never has the Aspen experience been arguably more important and more impactful.”
– Jen Easterly, Director,
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Washington, DC
“The Fellowship aligned perfectly with the dialogues happening within EY about how to build a better working world, factoring in a wider group of stakeholders to include society at large. Separately, a similar debate surrounds my specific area of focus: the role of diversity and inclusion in innovation and how it will help deliver better results to reframe our future. The discussions centered me on how to not only think more broadly, but also how I personally could deliver change in my role at a time when we faced historic challenges.”
– Jeff Wong, Global Chief Innovation Officer, Ernst & Young
San Francisco, CA
“The Fellowship provided me a leadership-broadening experience at a pivotal moment in my career, when I needed more than just technical expertise and industry knowledge to effectively lead. The whole Fellowship experience—the moderators, seminar discussions, selection of readings—brought out different perspectives of an incredibly accomplished group of people.”
– Dan Draper, CEO, S&P Dow Jones Indices
New York, NY
Social Change
Fellows are influential levers of change, taking action in new, significant ways to create positive change inn their organizations, communities, industries, and regions. As a result of the Fellowship:
led their companies and organizations with values and greater clarity of purpose
mobilized their resources (money, time, platform, networks) to create positive change at the community level and/or in the finance industry
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