“…With subsequent seed funding from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the FSLI (The Food Systems Leadership Institute, n.d.) was then created in 2005 to provide intensive leadership education to food system leaders from academic institutions, as well as government stakeholders, and related industries (Bryan, 2008;Food Systems Leadership Institute, n.d.;O'Sullivan, 2008). Working from the initial competencies and recognizing leadership has long been acknowledged as a skill of fundamental importance for success in a variety of fields, including public health (Fernandez & Steffen, 2013;Halverson, Mays, Kaluzny, & House, 1997;Institute of Medicine, 1988;Institute of Medicine, 2003a;Institute of Medicine, 2003b;Umble, et al 2005;Uno & Zakariasen, 2010), medicine (Chaudry, Jain, McKenzie, & Schwartz, 2008;Cummings et al, 2010;Gifford, Zamuto, & Goodman, 2002;Horwitz et al, 2008;Lattore & Lumb, 2005;Levinson et al, 2002;Loop, 2009) and academia (Kekale, 2003;Sugden, Valania, & Wilson, 2013;Williams & Olsen, 2009), the FSLI Directors created a curricula aiming to build leadership skills that were not bounded by or limited to a specific profession. Of the 20 leadership competencies targeted in the FSLI program, (see Table 1) a majority also form the curricular core of the Maternal and Child Health Public Health Leadership Institute (Fernandez, Noble, Jensen, & Steffen, 2015;Maternal and Child Health Public Health Leadership Institute, n.d.), nearly half serve as the curricular foundation for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) National Leadership Institute (ACOG Leadership Institute, n.d.; Fernandez, Noble, Jensen, & Chapin, in-press), and are also highly similar to the Maternal and Child Health Leadership Competencies (MCH Leadership Competencies, 2012), published by the Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau.…”