Events
Admired Leadership Institute in Asheville
April 21 – 24, 2025
The Admired Leadership Institute combines a week of leadership learning with activities that embrace multiple experiences found in Asheville, North Carolina. This carefully balanced design provides participants with a truly memorable Admired Leadership® experience. It is designed to create a rich dialogue among peer-like leaders.
Who Should Attend
The ideal participant for this tailored Admired Leadership Institute® is a female leader with a passion for excellence—in their work and everyday life. Asheville is home to artisans, craftsmen, and dedicated students of many different crafts, situated in the beautiful North Carolina Blue Ridge Mountains. We welcome participants with an interest in learning from other leaders of excellence and building lasting relationships with fellow female leaders.
Faculty
ELLIE CHAMBERLIN is a managing director in CRA’s Strategic Communications Practice. Ellie advises clients on how to communicate strategy and develop communication plans for organizational alignment and large-scale change efforts. She has expertise in designing and executing communication strategy to improve leadership credibility, achieve business objectives, and drive change during uncertain times. Her recent clients include BAE Systems, Dell Technologies, FMC, McDonald’s, Secureworks, and The World Bank Group.
MALLORY STACEY is a managing director in the CRA’s Leadership Practice. She advises leaders from Fortune 500 companies with a focus on newly promoted leaders looking to advance in their careers. Mallory has advised individuals and organizations through large-scale transformations, change initiatives, and process and team improvement. Prior to joining CRA, Mallory spent over a decade as a Consultant at Ernst & Young, where she was part of the process improvement division of the business transformation office. Her recent clients include Tory Burch, NASCAR, BMS, Wells Fargo and Bank of America.
DIANA HONG is a partner at CRA | Admired Leadership and a coach in the Strategic Communications practice. Diana coaches senior executives and leads teams on strategic communication, change, executive visibility and presence and stakeholder management and relationships. Her recent clients feature Morgan Stanley, Fannie Mae, Dell Technologies, American Water, the World Bank Group, Evercore, Merck KGaA, KPMG, the American Psychological Association, Waters Corporation, Tory Burch, and Marriott International.
Accommodations
The Restoration Hotel is inspired by the free-spirited culture of the local community. With the peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background, the Restoration offers a lovely respite with award-winning food, art, and architecture around every corner. If you’d like to extend your travel in the area before or after the session, we are happy to make recommendations and assist with travel plans if needed.
The Core Sessions
- Communicating to Drive Outcomes: Advocacy, Influence, and Change
- Developing and Coaching Juniors
- Driving Performance and Delivering Results
- Identifying and Selecting Talent
- Inspiring Others Around You
- Leading Your Leader for Team Success
- Making Great Decisions Every Day
- Making the Time to Lead
- Projecting Gravitas and Presence
- What You Don’t Know About Building Relationships
Asheville Experience
In addition to intensive working sessions around the art of leadership, the program will also host activities with leaders in Asheville’s culturally vibrant city. Home to renowned breweries, art, and food—to name a few—Asheville offers unforgettable opportunities to study excellence. The program will begin at 3pm on Monday, April 21 and conclude at noon on Thursday, April 24.
Next Steps
To participate, attendees must be full-access subscribers to the ALD platform. The cost to participate is $8,500. The member cost to participate is $7,500. For those of you who aren’t yet subscribers to our platform, we are offering a packaged deal that would include an AL Institute event pass and annual ALD membership for only $8,500. Sign up below and we’ll be in touch!
The 2025 event is open with limited space available.
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Admired Leadership Institute provides participants with a unique and memorable environment to explore how to be a better leader. It is designed to create a rich dialogue among peer-like leaders who can share organizational challenges, exchange innovative ideas, and better themselves.
