Nov 7, 2025
Part of the magic of American Leadership Forum lies in the fact that the cohort experience is just the starting point of a much longer leadership journey. ALF Affinity Groups help keep those cohort connections alive by offering spaces where Senior Fellows can continue...
Oct 24, 2025
This post was originally published at alfnational.org and shared here with permission. On a recent Friday afternoon, I made the hour-long drive from San Jose to downtown San Francisco to speak to a group of university students at a Fintech conference. Mind you, I have...
Oct 22, 2025
Earlier this month, the Fellows from Class XLV gathered in Half Moon Bay for their two-day “Forecasting the Future” retreat, marking the halfway point in their year-long curriculum. On the first day of the retreat, the focus was on discussing the impact...
May 15, 2025
A Reflection from April 30, 2024 It is hard to believe that it has been 49 years since I left my country of birth. As we commemorated this day in San Jose, I am amazed at how far we have come as a community. The event was held at the Rotunda at San Jose City Hall, a...
Oct 10, 2024
ALF Senior Fellow Barry Williams (Class XX) recently published an executive summary of 100 Black Voices: Black Corporate Directors Video Archive Project, which aims to conduct 85-100 video interviews of leading black corporate directors and create a video library for...
Jul 29, 2024
Embracing My Otherness In many AAPI cultures, we are conditioned to be quiet and to assimilate (into the) dominant culture for the sake of “fitting in.” That was certainly my experience growing up in a Filipino household in San Jose. My parents, who had...
Jul 24, 2024
American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley, in partnership with Thrive Alliance and Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits and with the support of Sobrato Philanthropies, has produced this short video to encourage nonprofit leaders to understand how historical and current... 
