Applications Open for LGSI@Stanford 2025

Stanford University’s Local Governance Summer Institute (LGSI@Stanford), supported and endorsed each year by several professional organizations including Cal-ICMA, is accepting applications for its week-long, on-campus residential leadership development program for senior executives of local governments from throughout the American West.  The seminar will be held the week of July 20-25, 2025.

LGSI@Stanford offers participants the opportunity to exchange and acquire tools for improving local government performance, while enhancing their personal capacity to innovate and to anticipate societal change. This program will strengthen individual capacities in leadership, public finance, negotiating, and strategic planning skills, while exposing participants to innovative solutions and technological advances supporting the emergence of smarter, more resilient, sustainable, and equitable communities in California and around the world. 

The program will focus on professional issues that all senior managers face, including leadership in our changing society, the move towards smarter and sustainable communities, public mobility initiatives, community engagement, equity and inclusivity, public safety reform, and of course, resiliency in the face of crises, be they physical or political.  The program also contains professional growth sessions, including strategic thinking, ethics, and contemporary finance and budget management.  As in previous years, the program will feature presentations from a variety of faculty, leading practitioners in California local government, and impact investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs from the Silicon Valley community.  LGSI is designed to present the best blend of both the academic and the practical world.

At the onset of the program, participants will be paired with an experienced practitioner who has years of success managing at the local level as part of the mentorship component of LGSI.  They will meet one-on-one on a schedule of their choosing, before and during the seminar. The program will be held on campus, amidst the stimulating environment of Stanford University and Silicon Valley. LGSI@Stanford is designed to encourage interaction with and networking among participants and instructors.

Details and application information can be accessed at  https://energy.stanford.edu/lgsi