Illinois Leadership Seminars (ILS)

"We unleash the leadership potential of Illinois youth."

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Welcome

WHO ARE WE & WHAT DO WE DO?

Illinois Leadership Seminars (ILS) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to unleash the leadership potential of Illinois youth. We realize this mission through an annual, multi-day leadership seminar as well as a series of single day leadership seminars. High school sophomores are chosen to represent their school from all over the state of Illinois at our multi-day seminar held each year in the first few weeks of June, at no cost to the participant. Alumni of our program are then challenged to lead their own single-day seminar in their own communities.

ILS has been providing quality, free leadership seminars in Illinois since 1977. We are a 100% volunteer organization with 501(c)3 nonprofit status. Through our programs, students interact with leaders in industry, government, the arts, education, and the media, coming in contact with a diverse world of leaders and leadership styles. Students are then challenged to discover and unleash their own leadership potential in their schools and communities, using the tools and resources made available to them at ILS. We at Illinois Leadership Seminars don’t tell our participants what to think, or even how to think, but stress the importance of careful thought for our world’s future leaders.