Arizona Center for Rural Leadership, Project CENTRL

To equip and empower leaders to meet the needs of rural Arizona.

Arizona Center for Rural Leadership has been shaping our state since 1983 through our flagship program: Project CENTRL a 12-month, experiential learning leadership development program. Our Alumni in Action: over 700 graduates improving the quality of life in rural Arizona, including 4 serving in Arizona's 56th Legislature. Our Make a Difference projects: Leadership is not a spectator sport. We identify opportunities, then plan and execute impactful projects.

Testimonials

"Thank you for all Project CENTRL has provided me and continues to provide me. Tomorrow I will speak at a binational conference in the capital city of Baja California, before hundreds of business leaders from the states of Arizona, California, Baja California and Sonora. I can't tell you how many tools and resources I am pulling from Stephanie Hendrie's presentation in Prescott for my speech, which I'll deliver in Spanish after the Governor of Baja California. I truly feel so much more confident, comfortable and ready-and in all honesty it is thanks to Project CENTRL. Thank you for all you do."

"I decided to apply to Project CENTRL to help diversity my leadership toolbox. When I started that box was pretty light, but with each seminar it gets heavier and heavier. Backed by that heavy toolbox CENTRL provides me, I've had the courage to say 'yes' to more opportunities like: serving on the Buckeye Chamber of Commerce, Arizona Beef council and National Milk Producers Federation of Young Cooperators."