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Developing individual and institutional leadership
for a 21st century food system
The Food Systems Leadership Institute (FSLI) offers leadership development to upper-level leaders in higher education, government, and industry to prepare them to meet the leadership challenges and opportunities of the future.
The boundaries and definitions for the food system are continually expanding. What was once seen simply as food production and distribution has grown to encompass nutrition, medicine, biotechnology , the environment, rural communities, and a host of emerging issues surrounding a complex system. Rapid changes in global economics and politics only emphasize the need to expand traditional food systems thinking.
FSLI leadership development is driven by three objectives: enhance individual leadership, develop knowledge and skills for organizational change, and broaden food systems perspectives. By enhancing individual leadership we improve the effectiveness of the individual in any leadership role they undertake. In developing organizational change abilities we equip the leader to act as an agent of change both in their own organization and in larger, more complex systems. Broadening the leader's food systems perspectives creates the vision for change toward a broader, more interdisciplinary and collaborative food system.
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