Leadership Development

Altitude is a rigorous leadership program designed to challenge ΑΤΩ brothers physically, mentally, and emotionally. The six-day adventure is spent backpacking the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains with the goal of peaking a 14,000 foot summit.

The one-and-a-half day program focuses on helping men identify the strengths that personally motivate and how those strengths overlap with their desire to engage and support others in their family, community, or world. Someone’s destiny evolves and comes into sharper focus throughout life.  But identifying the building blocks of destiny early in life as well as providing the opportunity to start exploring the benefits and impact is unique for someone in college. Participant evaluations have been extraordinarily strong.  Men of Destiny is becoming another value-added benefit of being an ΑΤΩ.

Emerging Leaders Conferences target the emerging leaders in ΑΤΩ undergraduate chapters. This means that, while older and more experienced actives are welcome to attend, the new focus of the ELCs are to help train the emerging young leaders of your chapter. Emerging Leaders Conferences are geared more for freshman and sophomore members of your chapter to help them get prepared for leadership roles with your chapter.  Together with National Officers and alumni volunteers the ΑΤΩ National Staff hosts these day-long, audio-video interactive experiences in regions across the country. The true value of ELC is it gives undergraduates a chance to learn from each other. With plenty of discussion time, ELC is less lecture and more collaboration. ELCs are held each year in the months of January and February.

Encounter is a three-day retreat designed to allow brothers to explore or deepen their spiritual identity. Through the retreat, brothers will encounter God’s grace through the story of the Prodigal son and focus on Glazebrook’s belief that unconditional love as exemplified by Jesus is a powerful and regenerating dynamic. Participation in ΑΤΩ’s Encounter is open to all chapter undergraduates and associate members of Alpha Tau Omega. 

The Alpha Tau Omega Presidents Retreat is held every January and provides incoming chapter officers the opportunity to learn what it takes to be an effective chapter leader. The retreat provides complete nuts and bolts content coverage and the ability to collaborate with other chapter presidents. The Conference has proven itself so critically important to a chapter’s health that every President, Vice president, and membership educator is required to attend. Currently, the National fraternity pays the cost for all undergraduates required to attend. Our goal is to help pay for travel costs of chapter officers attending, as well as provide ΑΤΩ Foundation grants to pay for those portions of the conference that are specifically leadership, citizenship, and spiritual in nature.

Every 2 years, this 3-day convention provides the opportunity for alumni and undergraduates to network and connect with one another while recognizing and celebrating the successes of ΑΤΩ chapters and individuals nationwide. Through additional educational programming and notable speakers, attendees learn from the best. Cutting edge technology – including a live-stream feed for non-attendees – makes ΑΤΩ Congress one of the most interactive and unique experiences ΑΤΩ has to offer.