Islay Walden Education Alliance is a New Jersey based non-profit corporation. We are committed to helping leaders, communities, and organizations understand themselves and others through education, research, and advocacy. Our mission is to identify and eliminate barriers to personal and professional growth. We support executives, clergy, industry leaders, and community advocates in building capacity for strategic change through leadership development and ethical policy development.

Islay Walden is founded on four universal pillars: history, heritage, faith, and scholarship. These principles define organizational culture and inform individual perspectives, in corporate settings or personal engagements.

Our vision and mission are realized through four sustaining initiatives:

Ethics and Equity Conference- an annual gathering of clergy, industry leaders, and community organizers to examine ethics and equity in public policy impacting vulnerable communities.

Stories of Affirmation and Progress (SOAP)- an affirming and belonging state-wide initiative that acknowledges and celebrates the contributions of people from various backgrounds and experiences.

Common Cause, Common Sense- a state-wide initiative that tracks public policy and progress in essential humanitarian areas and veteran services.

Humanistic Ecumenical Interfaith Reasoning (HEIR)- a national and international interfaith and intercultural exchange.

HISTORY: Examining the past to inform the present and forecast future growth.

HERITAGE: Celebrating and honoring diverse ethnicities, cultures, and experiences.

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Walden's Core Values

FAITH: The framework by which ethics, morals, and character are formed.

SCHOLARSHIP: A continuous cycle of knowledge, technology, and information management.

Diversity Statement

Centering diversity, equity, and inclusion in ethics, morality, and economics, Islay Walden Education Alliance maintains an unwavering commitment to creating healthy spaces where people are affirmed and belong, and where they thrive and self-actualize to their highest potential. Through our overarching and sustaining humanitarian initiatives, Isaly Walden Education Alliance acknowledges and affirms the diverse experiential, faith, and cultural expressions while affirming individual and collective humanity and shared human values.