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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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History of ALF

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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American Leadership Forum of Oregon
PO Box 521 ~ Marylhurst, OR ~ 97036
Phone ~ 503.636.2288
Fax ~ 503.636.2293
www.alfo.org