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Blue Sky Leaders Certificate Program

Conscious Leadership for Critical Times

Embodying evolutionary wisdom for the modern world.

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Blue Sky Leaders Certificate Program

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Blue Sky Leaders is a professional certificate program whose time has come. Uniquely interweaving contemplative practices and cutting-edge approaches from multiple disciplines, the Blue Sky Leaders Program (BSL) is a groundbreaking initiative that pushes beyond the boundaries of traditional leadership models, empowering individuals to skillfully respond to the fragmentation and loss of meaning that drive many of our current social and environmental ills. Grounded in timeless wisdom and emerging science, BSL reimagines leadership development by emphasizing the dynamic intersections of personal transformation, global consciousness, and creative action.

In Their Own Words

Uncover the impact of this 11-month leadership program.

Leadership is not about the power, control or numbers. Leadership is about guiding others towards awareness, contribution, impact.”

Inessa Golubova Cohort 2025, Blue Sky Leaders

We have to develop a long-term perspective if we’re going to get wisdom that matches the power we now have.”

Brian Swimme Award-winning filmmaker, author, and CIIS faculty

Those things that you gain are not just for yourself, but they're for the impact that you have on the world.”

Luke Fullagar Cohort 2025, Blue Sky Leaders

Not Your Traditional Leadership Program

Blue Sky Leaders dare to lead differently. They are more than visionaries; they are evolutionary agents, harnessing the power of personal transformation for global impact.

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Blue Sky Leaders Certificate Program

Blue Sky Leaders is a professional certificate program that blends intensive contemplative training with cutting-edge neuroscience, new cosmology, creative arts, and conscious leadership principles for a profoundly transformative educational experience.

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Deep Experiential Learning in the Bay Area's Natural Beauty

The Blue Sky Leaders Certificate Program is designed with a mix of in-person residencies and online sessions. The experiential residencies take place at idyllic, resort-like settings in the natural beauty of the San Francisco Bay Area and are interspersed with online sessions every other month.

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Our World Renowned Facilitators

Meet experts in such fields as evolutionary and archetypal cosmology; meditation and positive psychology; ecopsychology; wisdom traditions; Western religious and esoteric traditions; the evolution of consciousness and more.

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