American Leadership Forum publishes book preview featuring Keith Krach’s Trust Doctrine

In 2020, against the backdrop of a pandemic and extraordinary civil, racial and environmental unrest, American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley CEO Suzanne St. John-Crane began imagining a book that would outline the core principles of “the ALF Way,” featuring stories from ALF graduates —Senior Fellows—who had lived them. The idea was to reflect back to the network all that the organization had learned, taught, and nurtured since its founding in 1988, as a gift and a guide to leaders who were, and in many cases still are, navigating a steady stream of unprecedented challenges.

This excerpt, penned by former Under Secretary of State and Krach Institute Chairman and co-founder, Keith Krach, is titled Transformation to the Power of Trust. In it, he reflects on lessons from his service in the State Department and his work to establish his Trust Doctrine as a foundation for peaceful international relations. According to Krach, The Trust Doctrine states that every peaceful relationship must be based on a firm foundation of integrity, accountability, transparency, and reciprocity.