Emerging Leaders Pathway™
You Begin. | Core Question: How do I intentionally begin my leadership journey?
Designed for young women ages 14 to 22, this pathway builds confidence, communication, character, resilience, identity, and foundational leadership capability while preparing learners for higher education, careers, adulthood, and lifelong leadership.
The Emerging Leaders Pathway™ provides two age-specific leadership experiences that support young women as they build identity, confidence, capability, purpose, and readiness for the opportunities ahead.
Through age-appropriate learning experiences, girls and young women strengthen identity, confidence, character, resilience, communication, and leadership capabilities while preparing to lead with purpose, service, and impact.
The Emerging Leaders Journey
Leadership develops over time through intentional growth, meaningful experiences, and opportunities to lead.
The Emerging Leaders Pathway™ is designed as a progressive leadership journey that supports young women through key stages of personal and professional development.
As participants grow, they discover their strengths, develop practical leadership skills, deepen their sense of purpose, and prepare to navigate new opportunities with confidence, character, and integrity.
Each stage builds upon the one before it, creating a connected journey that prepares young women not simply for their next opportunity, but for a lifetime of leadership, service, and meaningful impact.
Series in This Pathway
Two age-specific series build confidence, readiness, and leadership identity across the transition from adolescence into adulthood.
Purple Beginnings™ Series
Ages 14 to 17
Help young women begin leadership from a place of confidence, character, and self-awareness. Build communication, emotional intelligence, resilience, healthy relationships, service, and academic readiness while strengthening the habits that support future leadership.
Purple Horizons™ Series
Ages 18 to 22
Step into adulthood with a stronger sense of direction, presence, and possibility. Strengthen leadership, career readiness, networking, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, community engagement, and purposeful planning for the transition into college, work, and adult responsibility.
Purple Distinction™ Recognition
A recognition of distinction within the Emerging Leaders Pathway.
The Purple Distinction™ Recognition recognizes distinction within the Emerging Leaders Pathway™ and celebrates young women who demonstrate exceptional leadership, scholarship, service, mentorship, character, and an enduring commitment to impact.
Rather than recognizing completion of a single learning experience, Purple Distinction™ Recognition celebrates sustained leadership growth, purposeful service, and the intentional application of learning developed throughout the Emerging Leaders Pathway™.
The recognition reflects a young woman’s readiness to continue leading with confidence, contribute meaningfully to her community, and use her leadership to create opportunities and lasting impact for others.
Continue Your Leadership Journey
“You Begin.”
Leadership is a lifelong journey of growth, purpose, service, and becoming. As you complete the Emerging Leaders Pathway™, continue building on the confidence, character, leadership capabilities, and sense of purpose you have developed throughout your journey.
Your next chapter may include higher education, career development, entrepreneurship, civic engagement, mentorship, or continued leadership learning. Wherever your journey leads, carry forward the confidence to know who you are, the courage to lead with purpose, and the commitment to create meaningful impact for others.