Frequently Asked Questions

The United States Naval Academy, the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law, along with the Hart Foundation, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, and the USNA Class of ’38, are proud to sponsor the 2025 Leadership Conference at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

The U.S. Naval Academy Leadership Conference's mission is to bring together the best minds in the practice and study of leadership to exchange ideas, experiences, and methodologies with both military and civilian undergraduate students of leadership. The United States Naval Academy Leadership Conference also has dozens of foreign delegates in attendance each year.

Since 1984, the Naval Academy has hosted an annual leadership conference for senior cadets and midshipmen from each of the service academies. In 2002, the conference expanded to include students from civilian universities and broadened its scope to include leadership topics relevant to government, business, and academia, as well as the military. Made possible through the generous support of the Class of ’38, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, and Mitch and Linda Hart, the USNA Leadership Conference now includes more than 400 participants from over 45 military and civilian colleges. In 2006, the Leadership Conference incorporated a student-generated and professionally published conference report that addressed key issues related to the conference theme. In recent years, the Leadership Conference has varied presentation formats and increased the amount of small group interaction and discussion in order to foster learning experiences among attendees.

Registration is closed, but we look forward to hosting you next year!

All requests and questions can be submitted through our email: nalc-ay25-group@usna.edu 

We hope you will be able to join us in 2026.

Yes, download it from this link > USNA Visitors Map

Maryland's capital has a lot to offer outside of the walls of the Naval Academy. Some other attractions include:

• The city dock in downtown Annapolis
• Restaurants & shopping along Main Street
• The historic capitol building
• 40 minute drive to Washington. DC.

ROTC cadets as well as cadets from international military academies are allowed to stay in Bancroft Hall (USNA dormitory) for the duration of the conference. 

For civilian delegates, as well as delegates 25 and older, there will be separate lodging available for registration in Annapolis.

If you have any further questions, please reach out to us at nalc-ay25-group@usna.edu 

Transportation from BWI, DCA, and IAD will be facilitated by duty vans on Sunday, 26 January and Wednesday, 29 January. For the duration of the conference duty vans and buses will transport delegates to and from their hotels as they attend conference events at USNA. Below is a quick brief for delegates arriving to the Naval Academy.

If you have further transportation questions please call MIDN 1/C Sam Jones at (703) 987-0972.