ULI NEXT provides a range of benefits to participants as they develop their leadership skills and build lasting relationships among peers, with ULI leadership, and throughout the ULI network.

The program strives to accomplish the following goals for its members:

• High-level sharing of strategies, best practices and pitfalls among leaders & peers
• Seed future collaboration that leads to better policies and projects
• Support each other in mid-career challenges and share best practices for effective leadership skills, and professional/personal growth
• Develop new and grow existing meaningful relationship with peers from cross-sectors of the field for the long-term
• Provide a collegial and non-competitive atmosphere built on trust.
• A relevant voice in the organization and its program(s).
• Leadership opportunities to meet individual goals.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Our program will follow the academic calendar from September to June. We will split the group into “Flights” that will be sorted for even professional sector grouping. Each flight will meet every other month, along with five all Flight meetings. The five all-flight meetings will consist of Leadership Topics chosen by members to promote candid discussion from diverse perspectives. NEXT flights are member-driven and led by Flight leaders. Each flight determines its own program content, guest speakers, and meeting time.

FLIGHT STRUCTURE

Flights are comprised of about 10 members each representing a diverse cross-section of the industry.

Meetings: Each flight will meet independently every other month, and everyone will attend the Leadership Topics five times per year.

• Approximately 10 sessions will be scheduled from September to June, taking a break during the summer.
  – 3-4 of these sessions will be with your assigned Flight
  -6-7 of these sessions will be all Flight meetings (September, October, December, February, March, May and June)
• Members are required to attend at least 75% of the meetings, and to actively participate in presenting and/or facilitating one or more of those meetings.
• Members are required to pay an annual participation fee of $125 to cover expenses associated with meetings along with other ULI operational costs for supporting the program.  The participation fee is separate and in addition to a member’s annual dues to belong to ULI. The participation fee must be paid by September 30, 2025.
• Once admitted to ULI NEXT, members may continue participation year-after-year without reapplying, until they turn age 50.

Each summer, an interest form will be available to ULI members. The goal is to place as many members as possible into small diverse groups, however admission/placement is not guaranteed.

TENTATIVE 2025 – 2026 ULI NEXT CALENDAR
9/11/25 –   Kickoff Event: Introduction to NEXT
10/10/25 – Leadership Topic #1
11/14/25 –  Breakfast Flight Networking
12/12/25 – Leadership Topic #2
1/9/26 –     Breakfast Flight Networking
2/13/26 –   Leadership Topic #3
3/20/26 –  Breakfast Flight Networking
4/10/26 –   Leadership Topic #4
5/15/26 –   Breakfast Flight Networking
June ’26 –   Happy Hour Send Off