Leadership Development Academy

2023 NACo Achievement Award Winner

Sacramento County, Calif., CA

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About the Program

Category: Personnel Management, Employment and Training (Best in Category)

Year: 2023

The County of Sacramento’s Leadership Development Academy (LDA) is a dynamic opportunity for county leaders to enhance leadership skills, learn global trends influencing leadership, and create cross-department networking relationships. This program goes beyond training by providing growth and application strategies, coaching and support group sessions, and reflection processes to assist with sustaining positive changes. The Leadership Development Academy’s (LDA) cohorts of cross-department and cross-level leadership enhance global county insight, which is a fundamental value of this program. Every level of leadership from every department in the county has the amazing opportunity to learn from one another’s experiences in addition to learn timeless and future focused transformative principles. The desired outcome of the program is to produce leaders who are inspired to transform positively a county culture by increasing organization commitment, increasing employee engagement, increasing leadership skills, and increasing a pipeline of future successors.