Florida Leadership Forum

The Florida Leadership Forum is dedicated to providing strategic leadership to help solve issues, such as the continuing failure of high numbers of African American businesses and the widening disparity in educational achievement that African Americans and other minorities face throughout the state. With a pro-business philosophy, the newly-created FLF is committed to being a credible and independent organization of action.

The success of the Forum will be largely driven by its ability to work collaboratively with minority and non-minority groups in helping identify success models and strategies which can lead to creative solutions for many of the critical issues facing minority communities....more

To partner with the business community, government, educators and minority and non-minority community leaders on critical statewide issues impacting the economic and social development of African American communities throughout the state

To serve as a catalyst in bringing together disparate groups and organizations to focus on successful models which have worked in other communities on critical issues.... more

The Forum believes it is imperative that African Americans and other minorities are able to effectively influence key public policy issues and share in the state's economic prosperity by creating more successful African American businesses, supporting education and health policies that are good for the community...more