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Torch Leadership Academy

West Long Branch, NJ, US • 100 - 249 Employees
Professional Services software

Torch Leadership Academy was founded in 2020 by a group of committed volunteers who have dedicated several hundreds of hours each year since 1995 towards providing young people (ages 14 – 18) with leadership development experiences. Our mission is: To empower the next generation of leaders, we cultivate personal development, meaningful connections, and servant leadership through immersive and transformative experiences.Our primary event is a four-day overnight conference held at a university campus for 75 – 175 high school students selected by our sponsors.These students are selected due to their demonstration of leadership potential and provided this opportunity to learn more about their unique leadership style, how to better communicate with others, how to set SMART goals, approaches for collaborative problem solving, and techniques for empathizing and building rapport with others.We continue to build past participants' leadership capabilities through a series of Personal Development Days (PDDs), events held between summer conferences that focus on advanced coaching and counseling techniques. From the participants in our PDDs, we invite the most qualified participants to volunteer as staff members at the annual conference as a community service opportunity and way to gain further leadership experience.Our volunteer staff conduct pre and post survey assessments of participants and staff to assess their growth over the course of their involvement in our programming. We expect to demonstrate an ability to significantly improve participants' understanding of leadership styles, ability to set goals, expand their horizons, speak in public, and improve self confidence. We also seek to shift participants' views on "leaders" from traditional descriptors such as "strength" and "confidence" to "loving" and "determined".