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“The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.”

Discover Your Path to Greatness.

Take three minutes to hear members of the ALF community, who each personally witness to the power that the ALF Personal Growth Platform has on the lives of others.

Your Journey Starts with Three Steps:

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Wanna Chat?Schedule a call with Darren Smith, co-founder of ALF, and connect further.

About the Foundation

The Authentic Leadership Foundation (ALF) is a personal growth platform focused on youth & young adults with the goal of building stronger leaders at scale.

IN OTHER WORDS...we offer a training path & community of support for educators to help youth with the crisis so many face of not knowing who they are and that they were made to be great and set the world on fire.

Founded in 2021, ALF’s mission is to help youth & young adults discover their individual path to greatness.

How? By showing you how to fully activate your knowledge & experience, combining it with what you instinctively know to achieve your greatest results. How? Through training that shows you how to practice:

  • making principled decisions
  • building character strength
  • clarity of mission

The results are: great leaders who make principled decisions, have strong character, and are clear on how they uniquely impact humanity.

PUT ANOTHER WAY...if your life was a boat, you learn ‘why’ your boat does what it does when you row it, and how to row it one principled decision at a time.'

Our Partner Organization Criteria

  • They have a desire to grow  ("growth" is defined as executing your personal and institutional missions better)
  • Demonstrated humility
  • Identification of a goal ALF can uniquely help the partner organization achieve
  • Commitment to integrate the ALF education program into all aspects of their life and organization
  • Commitment to measure results
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Our Process

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Our Community

We've built a community with 200+ people committed to getting better. 

A short-coming of traditional leadership training is its short-sighted nature. It's often about techniques that lack a connection to virtue. To make personal growth education feasible, we have created a community of people committed to getting better through the foundation’s education program that have the intention of helping new partners get off the ground.

Thought-Leaders

ALF community members are influencers in multiple disciplines and have access and reach that is invaluable to all our partners.

Engaged and Curious

Our community is engaged and curious, helping us make increasingly better decisions as we engage them in growing ALF.

Advocates of Our Mission

Our community is an advocate for our mission, with patient members waiting for long term processes to be developed and the value of those processes to be unlocked.

Long-Term Focus

This long-term nature of our community member base is key to building value and stability for an early-stage partner.

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FOUNDATION NEWS

September 11, 2025

North Texas Giving Day is Upon Us Again!

The Authentic Leadership Foundation is honored to join North Texas Giving Day 2025 for the second year. Our Campaign Towards Greatness equips Catholic high school students and educators to discover their virtuous path to greatness. With early giving open now and the big day set for September 18, your gift helps form courageous, faith-filled leaders for tomorrow.

October 9, 2024

Leadership Never Leaves the Field | WT #99

Mike Sweeney’s leadership transcends the baseball field, embodying the virtues of integrity, service, and humility that the Authentic Leadership Foundation strives to instill in leaders. From his outstanding MLB career to his work with San Diego Saints Baseball, Sweeney leads by example, shaping both athletes and communities. We are thrilled to feature him as our keynote at Bring Out the Greatness 2024! Learn how Sweeney’s life and mission reflect the timeless principles of authentic leadership.

September 6, 2024

Exclusive Opportunity: Notre Dame Football Weekend in Style

Discover an exclusive opportunity from the Authentic Leadership Foundation and Notre Dame Club of Dallas: a luxury Notre Dame football weekend package. Secure your chance for $200 or buy outright for $3,500. Limited chances available, act by September 10th.
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June 18, 2023

Temperament | SL60-01

June 21, 2023

Character | SL60-02

June 23, 2023

Temperament & Character | SL60-03

The Time is NOW.

When you join us, you will be actively supporting our youth education programs. As our past work in business, these programs are very specific in their objectives with measurable deliverables and outcomes. But we can’t do it without education partners and investors. You will be actively and enthusiastically helping to transform our young people into true, character-driven authentic leaders. 

To this end, we are excited to invite you to contact us and learn more! 

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