These programs offer participants interactive learning, superlative instructors, networking with colleagues, and engaging discussions of key management and leadership issues. Participants will enhance their leadership and management skills while forming a collegial learning community with their peers. Enrollment in these programs is limited to provide a small group learning community of future leaders.

Local Government Management Fellowship 

A highly competitive career-development opportunity, the LGMF program is for recent MPA/MPP graduates looking for their first job in local government management.  Fellows are selected through a competitive process and placed in one- and two-year full-time management-track local government positions, shaped by direct mentorship under senior government leaders and rotational assignments.  Positions are limited annually based on the number of host governments available to fund positions.  This is an annual fellowship program with a fall application process for spring/summer placement.

Emerging Professionals Leadership Institute 

This institute is being presented as a special two day offering to early career professionals and emerging leaders on the Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning preceding the ICMA Summits in the Southeast, Northeast, Midwest and Mountain Plains, and West Coast Regions. Managers, you are encouraged to invite your young professionals to attend this leadership institute. Emerging Professionals Leadership Institutes are designed for early career professionals and emerging leaders who may have MPA degrees but who may not be ICMA members or who may be working in the organization in their first job. This includes Assistants to and Assistant Managers. For program information, contact Felicia Logan, director of Leadership Development, e-mail: flogan@icma.org. 

Emerging Leaders Development Program  

Two-year Emerging Leaders Development Program (ELDP) featuring completion of the ICMA Essential Management Skills Certificate, a credentialed manager to serve as a career coach for two years, and Management Application Project participants design to demonstrate what they have learned. Open to those who are new to the local government profession or within their first seven years of local government work.

Leadership ICMA 

Leadership ICMA is an intensive two-year program designed for early and mid-career members (aspiring Credentialed Managers) who have at least three years of management experience in local government or a related field to cultivate key leadership competencies needed for success at all levels of local government management. Year two culminates in the completion of a peer assistance project designed to apply what has been learned.

Local Government 101 Online Certificate Program 

LG 101 is a five-course (15-session) online certificate program, featuring completion of the ICMA Professional Certificate in Local Government Management. This interactive program goes back to the basics – grounding local government professionals in those key skills and practices that are the foundation of becoming an effective local government manager. Taught by experienced managers and local government experts, this certificate program is designed to impart real-life experience, best practices, and sound advice in the areas most important to a manager’s day-to-day role.