L!FE Leaders, Inc. is a 501 c3 youth leadership and career development program serving the metro Detroit area.
Our Mission
Empowering Youth to Empower their future!
Our Vision
Our work opens onramps to opportunity through experience-based training in interpersonal and professional skills that launch the confidence to know anything is possible with strength of character, integrity and the courage to figure it out.
To us, opportunity is the opposite of only.
It is all, us, they, we, now, yours, rife.
So, we built a stage with lights shining to reveal a world
that is not closed to most, but accessible to all
who want it, find it, work it, take it.
Front and center stage. Wide minds welcome.
Who Is L!FE Leaders, Inc.?
Empowering Youth to Empower their Future.
Our mission is to make opportunity accessible for all through intergenerational collaboration.
Wide minds welcome.
The Skill Set For Success!
The Big 10
We have found that one of the key components for youth to succeed in pursuing their goals is accessing their Confidence. That skill can be supported by developing these other key competencies.
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All Boats Rise On This River!
L!FE Leaders Inc. offers its experiential learning curriculum in two separate student programs, Excellence Corps and Youth Summit Council. Each program offers students year-long programming, in both the fall, spring, and summer.
L!FE provides part-time paid employment and workforce development training to Detroit youth, ages 14 to 24. L!FE’s workforce development training features an experiential learning curriculum, focused on developing interpersonal and business skills, building peer and professional networks, and expanding student’s knowledge of and access to the career and academic opportunities available to them.
Our Impact
L!FE’s workforce development training allows students to develop the skills necessary to make them competitive candidates for scholarships, colleges and universities, workforce training programs, internships, and their careers of choice.
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Take a look at the amazing adults behind the magic!
Our Team
Tanesa McGhee
Program Development, Outreach Coordinator & Teacher -L!FE Leaders; Teacher- National Heritage Academies
Our Board
Leslie
Andrews
Board Member - L!FE Leaders; VP Strategic Initiatives and Advancement - National Urban League
Our Story
A Word from L!FE President & Founder, Amy Nederlander
Dear Parents and Detroit Community,
It is an honor to be working with your children and Detroit’s youth to empower their voice, self-confidence and professional skills through training and working in the community. Building professional relationships within Detroit’s revitalization now, to empower students future careers, and life in general, is a key pillar of our work. It is exciting to see so much growth and networking into real opportunity by our students, and we want you to know about it! We are thrilled to be launching L!FE Leaders, Inc. Monthly Newsletter to keep you posted on exciting developments in our students personal growth, as well as events and opportunities for you and your families to participate…
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"From eager curious minds at the start of the program, to focused energetic young leaders at its conclusion, L!FE Leaders, Inc. fosters important engagement that leads to confidence and opportunities for success."
Angelique Peterson-Mayberry
Vice President, Board,
Detroit Public Schools Community District
Our Sponsors
