Leadership Gwinnett

Leadership Gwinnett has spent more than four decades building Gwinnett County’s leadership capacity, one class, one connection, one community at a time.

Leadership Gwinnett is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit that educates, equips, and engages leaders to serve Gwinnett County, Georgia. For more than 40 years, our programs have prepared people to serve on boards, lead nonprofits, run businesses, teach in classrooms, and hold public office across the county. More than 2,500 Program Graduates carry that work forward today.

Our impact shows up in what Program Graduates do with the rest of their careers.

We educate leaders on the real Gwinnett. Our participants walk through the county’s justice system, hospitals, schools, and infrastructure in person. They sit with the superintendent, the sheriff, the hospital executive, the small business owner, and the nonprofit director who are living those issues daily.

We equip leaders to act on what they learn. Context becomes useful when someone knows what to do with it. Our programs pair county immersion with leadership development, so Program Graduates leave with both the context and the capability to contribute.

This is what people in Gwinnett call Gwinnett Glue®: the web of trust that lets a school administrator call a county commissioner, or a banker call a nonprofit director, and get a real answer the same day. It takes decades to build, and it is the thing our Program Graduates tell us they value most.