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focus on leadership development
and team building activities, while
providing a springboard to future
community involvement.
Special events such as Volunteer
for a Better Sandy Springs and
Movies by Moonlight deliver hands-on
opportunities for class members to
plan and implement projects
designed to enrich the quality of life
in Sandy Springs.
For more information, contact:
Carolyn Axt, Executive Director
P.O. Box 28007
Atlanta, GA 30358
404-256-9091
director@leadershipsandysprings.org
www.leadershipsandysprings.org

youth leadership sandy springs
Dedicated to helping emerging leaders
discover their full potential, Leadership
Sandy Springs offers Youth Leadership
Sandy Springs.
leadership sandy springs juniors who either live or attend school
Open to high school sophomores and

in Sandy Springs, YLSS is a unique
blend of civic education and leadership
training. Applications for 30 spots in
the annual Youth Sandy Springs class
are available online in January at www.
leadershipsandysprings.org/YLSS.
Students travel all over Sandy Springs
for six interactive programs throughout
the school year. They visit city hall to
see how city government works, enter a
why leadership sandy springs? – positive or negative – that affect your courtroom as an attorney or juror during
Great leaders inspire us. We are business success. a mock trial, visit businesses to see
drawn to their vision and values. But The more you understand, engage and what job skills are important, go to jail,
leaders are made, not necessarily born. help shape these local influences, the help design a city park, meet with civic
So, at Leadership Sandy Springs (LSS), more successful your organization can and business leaders, and sample water
we serve as the nexus for community be. For 27 years, LSS has assembled quality on the Chattahoochee River. The
leadership development and strive to more than 600 leaders from diverse year begins with a Saturday retreat at a
shape a thriving Sandy Springs. business and individual backgrounds low and high ropes course.
to craft solutions for key challenges After discovering the needs of their
what we do? affecting our community. community, YLSS students act by
Whether your markets touch seven organizing a service project that will have
blocks, seven states, seven countries how we do it? a lasting impact on their community.
or seven continents, your business Classes are composed of 30+ For more information, contact:
is anchored to and affected by the members with diverse backgrounds Polly Warren, Executive Director
community around you. Its quality of and careers who attend seven program 404-252-2787
life and community institutions touch days centered on vital community YLSSDirector@leadership
your operations, employees, customers issues. Open and closing retreats sandysprings.org
and stakeholders, creating impressions introduce members to the program and www.leadershipsandysprings.org/ylss

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