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The American Leadership Forum of Oregon is a non-profit, non-partisan organization
that joins and strengthens leaders in order to better serve the public good. ALF
brings a wide range of leaders together to build effective networks of collaboration,
service and community in the state of Oregon. The Oregon chapter is the only state-wide
chapter in the national ALF system, an acknowledgement of the need to fully integrate
Oregon's many diverse constituencies - including racial, ethnic, geographic and
private interest groups - in building networks focused on a shared vision and
common goals.
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The national American Leadership Forum (ALF) organization was founded in 1980
by Joseph Jaworski, who left his successful law practice to address what he increasingly
saw as a crisis of leadership taking place throughout the country. His vision
was to establish a national organization dedicated to bringing together leaders
from various sectors in communities across the country to develop their leadership
skills and capacity and strengthen their commitment to work together on public
issues.
After a year of meeting with leaders from across the United States, Jaworski
and seventeen other prominent Americans launched the American Leadership Forum
with this vision in mind. This group, many of whose members still serve on ALF's
national board of trustees, included John Gardner, former Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare; James MacGregor Burns, Professor Emeritus of Williams College;
Warren Bennis, former Professor at USC and respected author; Tom Bradley, former
mayor of Los Angeles; Harlan Cleveland, former ambassador to NATO and President
of the World Academy of Art & Science; Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor of
Business Administration, Harvard Business School, and James B. Stockdale, Vice
Admiral in the U.S. Navy.
Through the vision of this group, ALF began in 1980 to address a need for more
skillful, more ethical, more effective leadership on a local basis. They were
convinced that if a cross-section of a community's business, elected, academic,
minority and religious leadership could be brought together to work on public
issues, no problem would be beyond solution.
In 1996, Joe Jaworski published a book, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership, in which he chronicles his efforts to build the American Leadership Forum and
highlights the principles and values that ALF embodies.
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