As a host of the FFA Member Leadership Series, you can expect flexible delivery options, a skilled facilitator team, and a rotating curriculum! The FFA Member Leadership Series will empower students with new knowledge and skills they need to be confident and capable leaders – both in their chapters and beyond.
5th to 8th-grade students will experience the Discovery Conference.
Session Themes:
- The Compass of Leadership: 60 Minutes
Students explore four key pillars—core values, support systems, future goals and challenges—that shape their personal leadership journey. - RISE Above: 60 Minutes
Students are equipped with practical strategies for overcoming obstacles and building resilience through hands-on problem-solving and real-life examples. - Leadership 101: 60 Minutes
Empower students to communicate by strengthening their speaking confidence, practicing positive body language and developing active listening skills. - Leading Loudly: 60 Minutes
This session empowers students to communicate like leaders by strengthening their speaking confidence, practicing positive body language and developing active listening skills. - The 3 R’s of Teamwork: 60 Minutes
Challenge students to strengthen their ability to work in teams by practicing being resourceful, reliable, and respectful—three traits essential to building trust and achieving shared goals. - Dynamic Decisions: 60 Minutes
Empower students to reflect on how they spend their time, identify daily choices, and apply a step-by-step process to make thoughtful, intentional decisions that align with their goals.
7th to 10th-grade students will experience the Mission Conference.
Session Themes:
- Connect: Students will be introduced to the theme of the conference and evaluate their role in helping others feel connected.
- Why: Students will analyze why an effort to connect with others must be made and to whom that effort will be applied.
- How: Students will discover tools and processes to cultivate healthy connections.
- Unhealthy Connections: Students will categorize the connections in their lives and practice navigating unhealthy connections.
- Influence: Students will examine the relationship between trust and influence.
- Plan: Students will review the content from the previous sessions and leave motivated to create change.
Conference Schedule:
Session 1 – Me, 60 minutes
Session 2 – Values, 60 minutes
Session 3 – Choices, 60 minutes
Session 4 – Strengths, 60 minutes
Session 5 – Confidence, 60 minutes
Session 6 – Mission, 60 minutes
11th to 12th-grade students will experience the Impact Conference.
Session Themes:
- Identity: Members will build relationships, set expectations and preview the conference content.
- Direction: Members define their personal leadership direction and write a direction statement that will guide their leadership
- Voice: Members will explore different forms of voice and build a personal communication plan focused on supporting agriculture.
- Strategy: Members will identify a meaningful way their FFA chapter could improve and develop a strategic plan to help make it happen.
- Initiative: Members will write a personal pledge and action plan for how they will lead with initiative.
- Impact: Members celebrate their growth, reflect on each part of the conference and pull together everything they’ve learned to create their personal impact map.
Conference Schedule:
Session 1 – Identity, 60 minutes
Session 2 – Direction, 60 minutes
Session 3 – Voice, 60 minutes
Session 4 – Strategy, 60 minutes
Session 5 – Initiative, 60 minutes
Session 6 – Impact, 60 minutes
Contact the Member Leadership Series team at mls@ffa.org for more information and to register your state, classroom, or region for the FFA Member Leadership Series, click the links below.
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