Leadership Development & Leaders Convening

Good policy needs great champions.

State Focus builds a network of legislative leaders and professional staff who can carry rigorous state policy from research to reality.

Good public policy depends on good public servants to champion that policy.

State Focus conducts programming that helps develop those current and future public leaders into a robust network of policy champions.

We also maintain a staff network that matches these public officials with quality professional staff to accomplish their policy objectives.

The leadership development program revolves around a regular convening of legislative leaders from active and prospective State Focus states — bringing a better competitive policy balance to state legislatures and local governments in the Southeast and beyond.

Part Four · Roadmap

A deliberate build, state by state.

Our goal is full operations in three states by Year Three, focused on Southeastern and Midwestern states where the need is greatest. The model gets stronger the more states it reaches.

  1. Year Zero

    2022

    Research, planning, and initial seed funding.

  2. Year One

    2023

    Initial deployment in a home state; establish a relationship with at least one additional state.

  3. Year Two

    2024

    Growth in the home state; deepening relationships in two additional states.

  4. Year Three

    2025

    Full operations across three total states, with initial engagement in two more.

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