2025 Changing Faces Women's Leadership Seminar
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Theme: Women as Innovators and Entrepreneurs
Dates: June 2 - 15, 2025
Study Destinations: Oʻahu and Kauaʻi
Application Deadline: February 11, 2025
The 2025 Changing Faces Women's Leadership Seminar is a 12-day professional training, dialogue, and travel seminar scheduled June 2-15, 2025. The Changing Faces Seminar focuses on the vital role that innovation and entrepreneurship play in contributing to economic growth, job creation, and strengthening communities. During this seminar, participants engage in a series of workshops focused on leadership and entrepreneurship. Participants also expand their knowledge of entrepreneurship, economic growth, leadership, and community building through carefully selected field visits and meetings with experts, practitioners, business owners, and policymakers in Hawaiʻi. Participants are individually matched with local women leaders in a Host Mentor Program and, in return, Changing Faces participants act as mentors for a select group of high school students in a Next Generation Service Project. Finally, the Changing Faces Seminar provides training and consultative sessions to help participants develop and actualize a concrete Action Plan for the betterment of their business or their community.
Application Guidelines:
- Complete all required fields marked with a red asterisk (*); and provide
- Letter of Interest (maximum three pages) including: A brief description of your company/organization and your role; what you expect to contribute to and gain from participating in Changing Faces; concrete example(s) of your professional leadership and innovation, as defined above; demonstrated potential for impact within your community; identify an actionable goal for either your organization or community that you wish to work on and outline the role you can or would like to play in achieving that goal. *NOTE* This will serve as the basis of your Action Plan for the coming year.
- Resume/CV (maximum two pages)
- Two Professional Letters of Recommendation describing your suitability for the seminar. The letters should be signed and on letterhead
Extra pages submitted over the maximum limits, will NOT be shared with or read by the Selection Committee. Late or incomplete applications will also not be considered.
All applicants must also acknowledge and agree to the East-West Center Covid-19 Assumption Of Risk, Liability Waiver, And Release Of Claims For Participation In EWC Activities And Events and comply with the COVID-19 Safety Policy.
The East-West Center prohibits discrimination of any kind, including sex discrimination, in any education program or activity that it operates. Individuals may report concerns or questions to the Title IX Coordinator. The notice of nondiscrimination is located at About Title IX.