Youth Leadership
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The Global Problem Three Teens Solved With Something Already on Their Shelf
Three sixteen-year-olds from India just won an international Earth Prize for solving a global microplastics crisis with one ingredient on their kitchen shelf.
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The Breath Before the Save
A 13-year-old scout pulled his leader from drowning rapids. Then he piloted the boat home. The leadership lesson isn’t in the save. It’s in what came after.
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The Question That Built a Charity
Two teens saw a classmate wearing shorts on a cold day. What they built next saved 1,400 families $140K. A real-world leadership lesson about noticing first.
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Five Students, One Bus, and the Leadership Lesson We Keep Forgetting
By Alan J. Klingensmith The Leadership Lab | May 23, 2026 Most of us were taught that leadership is something you grow into. You get the title. You get the office. You get the badge. And then, somehow, leadership shows up. But every now and then a story comes along that quietly destroys that idea.…