We make life better for every person living in the Catawba Valley.

How? By developing, supporting, and cultivating strong leadership throughout our community.

The Quality of Life in a community is directly connected to the Quality of Leadership in the community.

Who’s Responsible for the quality of life in a community? Not one person, organization, team, business, or family. Instead, each person is responsible for their corner of the community. A leader is someone who takes responsibility for their corner of the community.

For a community to thrive, we need strong leaders – men and women who are driven to bring about positive change by taking responsibility of their corner of the world

Strategy

At CVLF, we strengthen the leaders in our community in three specific ways:

We support leaders.

Leadership is challenging, especially when you’re in an unsung arena such as non-profit, school, church, or civic organization.  We step in and support these leaders with world-class executive coaching and development.

We develop leaders.
Some leaders are transitioning from being merely in the position of leading to being a truly strong leader. Nobody knows how to lead without being taught.  We provide training and resources for people who find themselves in a leadership role. helping them develop the capacity to lead boldly so they can make a powerful impact in our community.

We cultivate strong leadership.
The journey toward being a strong leader starts with being a strong person. You have to be responsible for yourself before you can bear the responsibility of influencing others. We help turn on the light switch of leadership in our young people.  Everyone starts out in the dark about leadership.  They don’t know it’s a thing.  They don’t know it’s for them.  They’ve never considered themselves to be a leader.  We welcome them to the world of leadership.