About

Vision

The Inspired Leadership Initiative (ILI) is for accomplished individuals who wish to discover, discern, and design who they want to be in the next phase of their lives to facilitate emergence as a renewed and richly prepared force for good in their communities and beyond.

We define “accomplished” broadly to incorporate those who have excelled in business, non-profit organizations, and throughout life. Our focus is centered on discerned personal transformation which provides direction for a person’s future.  This is related to but purposefully different from a focus on finding specific vocation which many of our fellows accomplish upon completion of the program.

ILI represents Notre Dame’s first venture into “encore education”—a growing form of higher education—and is inspired by programs at other leading universities. Just as the other pioneering programs reflect the culture of their host universities, so too is ILI infused by Notre Dame’s rich traditions.