At Leadership Academy, we believe that play and exploration increases creativity, confidence, and social intelligence. By playing with others in a camp community, children build competence, autonomy, and relatedness that drives intrinsic motivation and happiness.

Leadership Academy is a summer camp company that creates summer day camps for children ages 5-17. We design and operate camps with a goal to get more children outside, exploring, learning, playing, and having fun so they develop a strong sense of self and a deeper connection to nature.

Our philosophy is different than other camps. At Leadership Academy, we purposely structure our summer camps so that children can direct activities without adult micromanagement, giving kids an emotionally safe place to practice social skills, build confidence, understand appropriate responses to others and work through conflict with the support of caring counselors. The camp day is unstructured and unscheduled by design, allowing time for the children to play and form deeper connections to nature and each other.