SHPE stages regional leadership development conferences on a yearly basis for the leadership of the SHPE student chapters to improve their organizational, managerial, and technical skills. They take place in all of the seven SHPE regions. This program helps college students develop and improve their pre-college outreach programs and improve the infrastructure of SHPE student chapters. Student leaders learn how to interact and network with SHPE's corporate supporters.

Each year, RLDC is coordinated, planned, and executed with one central purpose in mind: to improve the chapters' organizational, managerial, leadership, and technical skills. the conference serve to develop and improve chapter programs and infrastructure, as well as provide the opportunity to transfer leadership ideas, skills, and overall help to young leaders.