Aspiring Leaders Development Program ALDP

ALDP I - Class of 2006

• Recruitment: July 2004
• Selection: August – September 2004
• Class start: September 2004
• Graduation: September 22, 2006

The purpose of this pilot program is to ensure that the 30 candidates selected would qualify to meet Commerce’s succession planning needs in leadership positions identified as mission-critical, i.e., those positions where high attrition rates at the middle management levels are anticipated in the next few years. As a result, the occupations selected for primary selections of applicants in the 2004 ALDP were mission-critical, among the Department’s largest occupational series, and projected to have high attrition rates. For the 2004 ALDP, selections were to be made first from applicants in the following occupational series:

Based upon the availability of qualified applicants in the above series, additional selections were to be made from applications in the following series:

Selected Participants