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Becoming an NSLS member is more than an honorable achievement. NSLS membership provides cutting-edge leadership development training that delivers the skills needed to succeed in any career. Through the Foundations of Leadership program, members discover their unique leadership style, bolster their communication skills, and work alongside one another to complete goals. Honing your leadership, teamwork, and effective communication skills makes the NSLS more than worth it.
A Lifetime of Learning
NSLS memberships never expire, empowering you to hone your skills well into the future.
Embrace Leadership
Use what you learn in the Foundations of Leadership to make a real-world impact.
Prepare For Success
Master the skills of leadership to stand out in the job market and reach your ambitions.
Accepting your NSLS nomination sets you on a path of success that stretches long after college. Members report that the NSLS helps them grow their skills, kickstart their careers, and much more. Here’s what you’ll get as an NSLS member.
scholarships awarded to NSLS members each year, totaling $400,000.
of members believe the NSLS will help them achieve their life goals.
of members report that the NSLS is worth their time spent.
of members would recommend the NSLS to their peers.
The NSLS has impacted the lives of over 2 million members. Here’s what some of them have to say about their experience.
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The National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS) is nationally recognized as a legitimate, credible, and prestigious organization. Our members stand out from the competition and reap the benefits of our reputation by proudly noting their membership on their portfolios, official transcripts, and professional online job profiles.
In addition, we have built strong, lasting relationships with highly successful individuals and global thought leaders, including former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, actors such as Kevin Hart and Matthew McConaughey, activists like Dr. Bernice King and Anita Hill, and entrepreneurs including Mark Cuban and Daymond John. These partnerships speak to our credibility and enable us to provide valuable and legitimate learning opportunities to our members.
We are an organization with the mission to inspire positive change in our communities and the world by helping members realize their potential. Through our exclusive member benefits, we have helped millions grow both personally and professionally. We accomplish this by providing our members with benefits that support their success journeys, including:
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With over 800 chapters and more than two million members, the NSLS is the largest and only accredited leadership honor society in the United States.
The NSLS is both an accredited education organization and a for-profit, B-Corp organization. The review process for these classifications is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, the Internal Revenue Service, and the national board of MctaB-Corps. These classifications are more rigorous to achieve than gaining accreditation from the Association of College Honor Societies.
In addition, we’ve successfully achieved many accreditation and certification processes. At the NSLS, we:
The NSLS works with your university to develop the criteria needed to be invited to join your local chapter. While the NSLS helps guide the selection process, it ultimately comes down to who your school thinks will benefit the most from our programming. These criteria are usually based on GPA or leadership potential. As a legitimate honor society, we value providing leadership programming to anyone who wishes to become a leader and take the reins of their success. Students can also self-nominate themselves to join if they want to become a member but didn’t get invited.
Members must meet specific nomination criteria that are specified by local chapter leaders (usually based on GPA and/or leadership potential). You're considered a pre-inducted member once you have paid your one-time registration fee. To become an inducted member, you must complete the Steps to Induction listed in the previous question.
Students who wish to join but haven’t been nominated can still apply for membership online.
As a member, you have access to a wide range of training resources, networking events, and learning opportunities designed to develop your leadership skills. To become a fully-inducted member, students must complete the Steps to Induction.
Learn more about the Steps to Induction and everything you’ll do as a member here.
The NSLS helps members develop the skills needed to succeed in the modern workforce. These skills, such as leadership, effective communication, teamwork, inclusiveness, and others, are all highly sought after by hiring managers and are the keys to success to matter your major, career path, or ambitions.
NSLS membership also unlocks benefits that may help your job search, such as an exclusive NSLS job bank, personalized letters of recommendation, and access to success coaching.
To learn more about NSLS membership benefits, click here.
Becoming an NSLS member is not only a nationally recognized honorable achievement that looks good on resumes, it also shows your commitment to self-development. Unlike other honor societies, the NSLS provides leadership development programming that helps you gain the actual skills needed to succeed in a crowded job market.
Yes, the NSLS awards over $400,000 in scholarships and awards every year. Members may apply for these scholarships after accepting their nomination.
To learn more about NSLS scholarships, click here.
Throughout your college career, you may be invited to a number of different honor societies. Sadly, in some situations, scammers may pose as fraudulent honor societies to take advantage of college students. It’s essential to know how to distinguish between a scam and an honor society that will provide value to you.
Look for the below criteria when determining whether or not an honor society is legitimate:
Student success stories. A legitimate honor society will have testimonials and member success stories readily available. These stories should tell you how the organization helped members prepare for—and succeed— in their endeavors and the value it brought to their college experience.
Yes, the NSLS is a real, legitimate honor society. As a leadership honor society, our program and curriculum are focused specifically on leadership skill development and career preparation.
NSLS invitations are sent to select students based on their school’s criteria.
The NSLS’s leadership programming is delivered through a high-quality, thorough curriculum. Our program builds upon itself and requires the completion of culminating projects or activities that reinforce key lessons. Throughout this journey, members build their skills from the ground up and then apply those lessons to real-world projects.
Our leadership programming inspires members to think critically, develop a core purpose, build resiliency, and collaborate with empathy. We nurture a diverse community of leaders by providing hands-on experiences, skill-building activities, and time for self-reflection.
No. The NSLS is not a scam. The NSLS is a legitimate, accredited, and esteemed leadership honor society that is nationally recognized, with over 800 chapters and more than two million members at universities nationwide.
Reports of the NSLS being a scam are largely due to the fact that there are very real honor society scammers out there who take advantage of college students. The NSLS isn’t one of them. The NSLS partners with schools to bring leadership development to their campuses.
You can search through our chapter database to see more about the chapter you were invited to and our history with your school. So far, the NSLS has helped over two million members at more than 800 schools achieve success.
No, the NSLS is not a pyramid scheme. The NSLS delivers leadership development programming to students at partnering schools through local chapters on campus or online, depending on the school’s needs. If you have received an invitation to join the NSLS, your school has a local chapter led by a faculty advisor and a student-led Executive Board. Local chapters host events, help each other achieve their goals, and work together to complete the Foundations of Leadership program.
The NSLS National Office supports local chapters by developing curriculum, providing member benefits, and more.
The fee to join the NSLS helps us continually develop our curriculum and deliver new and engaging content to our members. Without a fee, we wouldn’t be able to reach as many future leaders as we do. To that end, we know that not everyone can afford the fee and have provided options to assist members who may be experiencing financial difficulties.
For more information, please consult the NSLS Knowledge Base.
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