John W. Gardner Award Nomination Form

About ALF Silicon Valley’s John W. Gardner Award

Each year at our Exemplary Leadership Celebration, ALF Senior Fellows recognize those among them who are doing an exemplary job of inspiring and motivating other leaders, building bridges between diverse communities, and demonstrating ALF’s core values of diversity, inclusiveness, engagement, and respect.

This recognition is known as the John W. Gardner Award, named for John W. Gardner (1912 – 2002), former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and author of On Leadership (1990). Gardner helped design the national ALF organization and helped develop the Silicon Valley chapter.