One of the premier statewide organizations for executive leadership development in the United States, Leadership Maryland’s Executive Program focuses on senior/executive-level leaders with extensive professional backgrounds who have made significant contributions to their organizations, industries, and/or communities.

Each year, 52 accomplished and diverse leaders from around the state are selected by a group of their peers to participate in a stimulating and thought-provoking eight-month educational program. The program is intense; the results are rich and rewarding. Class members converge monthly, April through November, in five different regions of the state for a series of two-day sessions. During each session, class members experience interactive tours of meaningful places that help define the region they’re in including major employers, significant historical and cultural sites, tourism attractions, economic development or neighborhood revitalization projects, and more. Interspersed with these tours are discussions by leading experts addressing pressing issues in the state including environmental issues, inequity, healthcare, housing, education, workforce and economic development, agriculture, public safety and corrections, infrastructure, transportation, and multi-culturalism and diversity. At its core, Leadership Maryland’s Executive Program is about the importance of leadership, differing opinions and perspectives, and relationships.
Why the Executive Program?
Hear directly about the Executive Program from alumni by watching this video.
Who should apply:
Ideal applicants for Leadership Maryland’s Executive Program will have a desire to learn more about Maryland’s most critical issues and a personal commitment to be a force for positive change in their organizations, communities, and state. The chosen class will reflect a cross-section of the state by including diversity of geographic location, profession, ethnicity, age, and gender.

Sessions

  • Evening Networking Reception (March)
  • Orientation Retreat (April) – The program begins in earnest with a two-day orientation retreat designed to foster connections among the new class of leaders.
  • Southern Region (May) 
  • Central Region (June)
  • Western Region (July)
  • Eastern Region (September)
  • Capital Region (October)
  • Closing Retreat (November) – The closing retreat is an opportunity for the class to come together for reflection, to share ideas and opportunities for collaborative solutions, and to strengthen connections as the program concludes.
  • Graduation (December)

While each year the session curriculum is tweaked in order to ensure the program stays relevant and timely, there are places that we have visited regularly. Those include the following:
  • Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
  • Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant
  • College Park Discovery District
  • Deep Creek Lake
  • Frostburg State University
  • Historic Sotterley
  • Humanim
  • Patuxent River Naval Air Station
  • Perdue Farms
  • R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
  • Roxbury Correctional Institute
  • Salisbury University
  • Strathmore Music Center
  • TouchPoint Baltimore
  • University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
  • University of Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute
  • Vehicles for Change

Value & Benefits

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Network
Leadership Maryland members enjoy personal access to more than 1,200 top level leaders in Maryland's public, private, education, government, and nonprofit sectors. No other membership includes such a diverse, statewide group of talented leaders. When a member calls another for help or guidance, time is put aside to talk, listen, offer advice, open doors, extend your network, collaborate on projects and business, make introductions. All members in good standing have access to the searchable database in the members-only section of this website.
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Member Events    
There are regional events and socials happening throughout the year, plus our annual Fall Reunion and December’s Celebration of Leadership, otherwise known as the annual graduation. Members are encouraged to identify and propose events, including facility tours, panel discussions or speakers.