About Us

Local Leadership Training Roadshows were organized initially as Kaaba Colloquia, an educational seminar of the O.T.O. United States Grand Lodge, which receives direction from the Executive Committee and collaborates with the Strategic Planning Secretary, the Electoral College, and the Education Committee. The particular strategic concern of the Local Leadership Program is to support the growth and development of member leaders. 

Leadership Roadshows are intended to:

• Provide training in O.T.O. leadership philosophy and techniques for local officers.

• Create opportunities for officers of different local bodies to meet and exchange ideas on the theoretical and practical concerns of O.T.O. organizing.

• Expose interested members to the challenges and rewards of local officer work.

• Make key national officers available in person to members who have not yet reached the invitational degrees.

• Permit U.S.G.L. to encounter the concerns and aspirations of local leaders.

The hosting local bodies continue to provide logistical support for the Kaaba Roadshow. Still, it has long been our custom to handle all arrangements ourselves and leave them instead with opportunities to offer hospitality in the evenings and to showcase their local members and accomplishments.

The History of U.S.G.L. Local Leadership Training

• Kaaba Zero: a South Central regional effort inspires a program.

• Kaaba 1-3: almost twenty years of leadership training development and refinement.