Who We Are – Altus Leadership

Mission

To elevate every leader’s journey as they discover, strengthen, and apply their innate abilities to create a positive impact.

Operating Principles

Intentionality

We will give the time, thought, and attention needed to ensure our actions create purposeful programs for everyone.

Community

We will include, partner, and uplift a diverse array of community members to ensure we develop community programs based upon the voices of those communities.

Learning

We will continuously embrace organizational and personal growth in order to foster psychologically safe environments for mistakes, learning, and positive transformation.

Wellbeing

We will proactively consider the emotional demands and physical risks asked of our community members in order to protect their safety, health, and welfare.

Accountability

We will create and maintain cultural practices of ownership, growth, and transparency in order to prevent a toxic culture of mistrust, social exclusion, and blame.

Celebration

We will share, acknowledge, and applaud the successes of our community members to ensure everyone is seen, valued, and uplifted.

How Altus Leadership came to be
Founder’s Letter

Nearly two decades ago, I attended a high school leadership conference that would change my life. Prior to the event, I didn’t care about my potential or “seizing the day”; I just wanted permission to skip three days of school. Yet, as these stories go, something changed. I changed. I left the conference feeling empowered to do more, and to be more. And so, for the next 13 years, I returned to that organization, volunteering in an attempt to recreate the spark I felt as a 16-year-old for others. While successful at times, that conference could only offer so much to others. I therefore found myself imagining a different organization, one built to support not just participants but also volunteers and communities. I envisioned an organization that could uplift and support anyone seeking to create a positive change in this world.

Five years later, in the fall of 2025, I finally decided to take a risk, and asked friends and family to help me with my vision. 20+ volunteers stepped up, endeavoring to create a new leadership organization. One that would not only teach leadership skills but would create supportive enough spaces for individuals to be their most authentic selves, leading to positive transformational moments. In the beginning, we called this idea the Untitled Leadership Organization (ULO).

To accomplish our goal, we organized ourselves into 6 committees: incorporation, curriculum, culture, training & development, digital tools, and ad hoc. Over the course of the next 12 months, we brainstormed, white-boarded, discussed, debated, white-boarded once again, challenged, re-discussed, and eventually developed the foundations of what we now call Altus Leadership. A leadership organization dedicated to elevating every leader’s journey.

I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished thus far and can’t wait to see what we develop next.

– Eric Martin, Founder

Meet the team making it happen

At this moment, and for the foreseeable future, we’re excited to claim that Altus Leadership is 100% volunteer-operated. No individual highlighted on this website, nor working in the background, receives any compensation for their work. We, as a collective, whether positioned as a Corporate Board Member or Organizational Volunteer, give our time and energy to Altus Leadership because we believe in the organization’s mission and work.

Outside of our volunteer positions, we work within the fields of education, corporate consulting, healthcare, insurance, design, user experience, and academia. If interested in joining our volunteer team and making a difference, apply today!

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