The document discusses the need to transform approaches to leadership development to address 21st century social problems. It argues that the current focus on individual heroic leadership is inadequate and does not support inclusive, collective or community-based leadership styles. A new approach is needed that cultivates leadership as a networked, collaborative process and promotes the leadership of people of color to achieve social equity. The Leadership Learning Community aims to broaden conceptions of leadership through research and by engaging leaders across sectors.
We recently posted the Leadership and Race synthesis and are working with the writing partners to develop the publication. The Leadership and Networks synthesis outline has also been posted. We would like to engage you in discussion and questions that can strengthen these publications.
June 4, 2015 | 11am-12pm Pacific
Session Description:
We are launching a webinar series to provide a space for practitioners and researchers in both the leadership and network development areas to connect and learn from each other. Often these groups are not connected and we want to build awareness and even collaboration across the research – practice divide. We will focus on the intersection of leadership and network development. After clarifying the various ways in which leadership and networks intersect, we will consider the following questions: what does it mean for people in networks who see the need to be more intentional about developing leadership, and what does it mean for leadership development practitioners to design and deliver programs that better equip their participants to effectively utilize network strategies and tools.
This first webinar will start to explore the intersection between leadership and networks, and introduce a relational perspective of leadership. The three partnering organizations will discuss concrete examples and ideas from their work, and then participants will have a chance to ask questions.
Register for this first webinar with The Center for Creative Leadership, NYU/Wagner, and The Leadership Learning Community
This second webinar in the Network Leadership Webinar Series is brought to you by the Center for Creative Leadership, NYU Wagner, and the Leadership Learning Community.
Presenting is Chris Ernst from Juniper Networks.
In this third webinar of the Network Leadership Series, Professor Angel Saz-Carranza will explore the question of how formal networks of organizations, created to reach a collective goal (also known as goal-directed networks), work to support the overarching network goals. Goal-directed networks often create a separate organizational unit to broker and administer the network as a whole called Network Administrative Organizations (NAOs).
The webinar will answer questions like:
How organizational units lead and broker the work of network members to ensure that the network as a whole achieves a collective network goal. finds the direction it needs, aligns the activities of its members, and helps them stay committed and ready to collaborate
How leadership strategies are different when the work is not internal to a single organization
Drawing from the work of immigration coalitions in the U.S. as examples of an important type of network, Saz-Carranza unpacks the leadership dynamics of formal goal-directed networks. These network member organizations join together to accomplish a common goal that is different from each organizational member but that contributes to advance their individual missions.
We recently posted the Leadership and Race synthesis and are working with the writing partners to develop the publication. The Leadership and Networks synthesis outline has also been posted. We would like to engage you in discussion and questions that can strengthen these publications.
June 4, 2015 | 11am-12pm Pacific
Session Description:
We are launching a webinar series to provide a space for practitioners and researchers in both the leadership and network development areas to connect and learn from each other. Often these groups are not connected and we want to build awareness and even collaboration across the research – practice divide. We will focus on the intersection of leadership and network development. After clarifying the various ways in which leadership and networks intersect, we will consider the following questions: what does it mean for people in networks who see the need to be more intentional about developing leadership, and what does it mean for leadership development practitioners to design and deliver programs that better equip their participants to effectively utilize network strategies and tools.
This first webinar will start to explore the intersection between leadership and networks, and introduce a relational perspective of leadership. The three partnering organizations will discuss concrete examples and ideas from their work, and then participants will have a chance to ask questions.
Register for this first webinar with The Center for Creative Leadership, NYU/Wagner, and The Leadership Learning Community
This second webinar in the Network Leadership Webinar Series is brought to you by the Center for Creative Leadership, NYU Wagner, and the Leadership Learning Community.
Presenting is Chris Ernst from Juniper Networks.
In this third webinar of the Network Leadership Series, Professor Angel Saz-Carranza will explore the question of how formal networks of organizations, created to reach a collective goal (also known as goal-directed networks), work to support the overarching network goals. Goal-directed networks often create a separate organizational unit to broker and administer the network as a whole called Network Administrative Organizations (NAOs).
The webinar will answer questions like:
How organizational units lead and broker the work of network members to ensure that the network as a whole achieves a collective network goal. finds the direction it needs, aligns the activities of its members, and helps them stay committed and ready to collaborate
How leadership strategies are different when the work is not internal to a single organization
Drawing from the work of immigration coalitions in the U.S. as examples of an important type of network, Saz-Carranza unpacks the leadership dynamics of formal goal-directed networks. These network member organizations join together to accomplish a common goal that is different from each organizational member but that contributes to advance their individual missions.
Shared and effective community leadership can be helped or hindered by our conceptions of and experiences with people from different identity groups. Add to that the reality that our experiences are embedded in larger social identity structures and dynamics within communities that in many cases are reinforcing negative patterns. So how can social identity best be raised and addressed in community leadership development programs? How can ideas about social identity expand our thinking about community and about leadership? We are on a journey to develop a curriculum that can serve as a resource to community leaders (and by leaders we mean everyone contributing to leadership, not just those with a formal leadership role). Specifically we aim to build awareness about social identity dynamics in people and communities to enhance the ability of individuals and groups to work together more effectively in order to achieve "common good" community outcomes.
Webinar Presentation: Why Community Leadership MattersRECODE
Wednesday July 6 at 12:00pm
What is leadership, and why does it matter to communities, societies and nations?
Webinar with Mount Royal University's James Stauch and Lesley Cornelisse to discuss their recently released report Strengthening Community Leadership Learning: Results of a Canada-wide research project on leadership learning for social change. James and Lesley discuss their research into Canadian leadership development programs as they relate to community development, social innovation, environmental systems, and social change.
More info: re-code.ca/en/whats_happening/159
Nonprofit Organizational Capacity Building Scot Evans
A short overview of organizational capacity and capacity building for the community based nonprofit sector. Includes a discussion of capacities needed for movement building and social impact.
Seeing and assessing leadership culture Charles Palus
With Sarah Stawiski, Chuck Palus, & John McGuire
Join us for a conversation about seeing and assessing leadership culture. In the previous webinar we explored how leadership culture is key to change leadership. This week we take a closer look at leadership culture: What it is, how to see it, and how to engage and begin to transform it.
We define the basic terms, and share the background of theory and practice
We review and experience several practical tools for seeing, assessing, and transforming leadership culture
We look at case studies, with implications for your own context
What is the CONNECTED Community, and why is relational leadership important? Click here for resources http://cop.ccl.org/connected/
Results of a survey conducted by the Manitoba Library Associations Working Group, March 2012. Prepared for the Manitoba Libraries Conference, May 16, 2012.
Change Leadership: Leveraging the Power of Leadership Culture featuring John ...Charles Palus
Join us to see and understand how CCL’s core Direction, Alignment, & Commitment (DAC) Framework guides the work of Change Leadership. We will explore the relevance of relational leadership and the importance of transforming leadership cultures. This session will feature the CCL global capability in Change Leadership with CCL Senior Faculty Paige Graham and John McGuire. Some of this webinar will repeat material offered on the October 3rd webinar, exploring it this time in terms of relational leadership. From the Center for Creative Leadership and the CONNECTED Community http://cop.ccl.org/connected
Examining a global NGO’s collective capacity to leadCharles Palus
Examining a global NGO’s collective capacity to lead, featuring Patrick Sweet, Cindy McCauley, & Robert Burnside. 1) Identify groups whose shared work is central to the organization’s success. 2) Invite group members to complete the DAC survey about leadership outcomes in their group. 3) Compile and analyze responses from 920 individuals, and create focus groups for DAC best practices.
http://cop.ccl.org/connected/connect/webinar-archive/
The role of communities leaders and leadership is growing in importance in rural places. The Blandin Foundation’s longstanding leadership program relies on not just building leadership skills but also building the networks and relationships needed as communities face new challenges.
Shared and effective community leadership can be helped or hindered by our conceptions of and experiences with people from different identity groups. Add to that the reality that our experiences are embedded in larger social identity structures and dynamics within communities that in many cases are reinforcing negative patterns. So how can social identity best be raised and addressed in community leadership development programs? How can ideas about social identity expand our thinking about community and about leadership? We are on a journey to develop a curriculum that can serve as a resource to community leaders (and by leaders we mean everyone contributing to leadership, not just those with a formal leadership role). Specifically we aim to build awareness about social identity dynamics in people and communities to enhance the ability of individuals and groups to work together more effectively in order to achieve "common good" community outcomes.
Webinar Presentation: Why Community Leadership MattersRECODE
Wednesday July 6 at 12:00pm
What is leadership, and why does it matter to communities, societies and nations?
Webinar with Mount Royal University's James Stauch and Lesley Cornelisse to discuss their recently released report Strengthening Community Leadership Learning: Results of a Canada-wide research project on leadership learning for social change. James and Lesley discuss their research into Canadian leadership development programs as they relate to community development, social innovation, environmental systems, and social change.
More info: re-code.ca/en/whats_happening/159
Nonprofit Organizational Capacity Building Scot Evans
A short overview of organizational capacity and capacity building for the community based nonprofit sector. Includes a discussion of capacities needed for movement building and social impact.
Seeing and assessing leadership culture Charles Palus
With Sarah Stawiski, Chuck Palus, & John McGuire
Join us for a conversation about seeing and assessing leadership culture. In the previous webinar we explored how leadership culture is key to change leadership. This week we take a closer look at leadership culture: What it is, how to see it, and how to engage and begin to transform it.
We define the basic terms, and share the background of theory and practice
We review and experience several practical tools for seeing, assessing, and transforming leadership culture
We look at case studies, with implications for your own context
What is the CONNECTED Community, and why is relational leadership important? Click here for resources http://cop.ccl.org/connected/
Results of a survey conducted by the Manitoba Library Associations Working Group, March 2012. Prepared for the Manitoba Libraries Conference, May 16, 2012.
Change Leadership: Leveraging the Power of Leadership Culture featuring John ...Charles Palus
Join us to see and understand how CCL’s core Direction, Alignment, & Commitment (DAC) Framework guides the work of Change Leadership. We will explore the relevance of relational leadership and the importance of transforming leadership cultures. This session will feature the CCL global capability in Change Leadership with CCL Senior Faculty Paige Graham and John McGuire. Some of this webinar will repeat material offered on the October 3rd webinar, exploring it this time in terms of relational leadership. From the Center for Creative Leadership and the CONNECTED Community http://cop.ccl.org/connected
Examining a global NGO’s collective capacity to leadCharles Palus
Examining a global NGO’s collective capacity to lead, featuring Patrick Sweet, Cindy McCauley, & Robert Burnside. 1) Identify groups whose shared work is central to the organization’s success. 2) Invite group members to complete the DAC survey about leadership outcomes in their group. 3) Compile and analyze responses from 920 individuals, and create focus groups for DAC best practices.
http://cop.ccl.org/connected/connect/webinar-archive/
The role of communities leaders and leadership is growing in importance in rural places. The Blandin Foundation’s longstanding leadership program relies on not just building leadership skills but also building the networks and relationships needed as communities face new challenges.
In this article, I endeavors to develop an emerging paradigm of leadership for our organizations known as "leaderful practice." Leaderful practice constitutes a direct challenge to the conventional view of leadership as "being out in front." It is submitted that in the 21st Century organization, everyone will need to share the experience of serving as a leader, not sequentially, but concurrently and collectively. In other words, leaders co-exist at the same time and all together. In addition, each member of an organization will be encouraged to make a unique contribution to its growth, both independently and interdependently with others. In this sense, organizational members will aspire to become fervently collaborative, which in turn is derived from their compassion toward other human beings. Their well-developed sense of self permits them to develop a deep consideration of others. Thus, the article makes the case that the only possible way to lead ourselves out of trouble in management is to become mutual and to share leadership.
Shared Leadership: A Tool for Innovation, Engagement, and InclusionMax Freund
For years, nonprofit leaders have questioned the utility of traditional models of top-down staff leadership structures. But the growing body of research on alternatives – from co-directorship to distributed leadership to self-organizing teams – has been difficult to sort through. In this highly participatory session, participants will explore emerging models, the research on what works (and what doesn’t), and how capacity builders can help organizations adopt leadership structures that work. As the session exercises build upon the previous ones, participants are asked to attend the full session.
Session offered at the 2015 conference of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management by Mike Allison (Michael Allison Consulting), Sean Thomas-Breitfeld (Building Movement Project), and Max Freund (LF Leadership).
Leadership Formulation
Formulating Leadership
In today's workforce, there are several ways in which organizations can pursue individual or group talent to represent all it stands for and how it would like to be presented to the workforce. Successfully recruiting people should start with the organization realizing what its purpose is and how it plans to remain relevant along with many other organizations doing the same things. Once recruited and trained, it is important organizations find a means of retaining these individuals who excel in all areas and portray the characteristics of one who can eventually lead the staff in their charge as well as ensure new talent is brought in to keep the organization growing.
Leadership Development
Leadership development is a critical focus area for any organization that needs to be successful. In such a constantly changing business world leadership trends and practices need to keep evolving to adapt to the shifts in the environment (Snyder, 2013). One of the rapidly increasing trends in leadership development is the increased hiring and development of millennial workers into leadership positions. Leadership needs a lot of skills and experience, and as much as an organization may want to put millennial workers into leadership positions, they need to make sure that they are ready. Best practices for increasing the number of millennial leaders in an organization include:
Leadership Training
Organizations need to ensure that they engage their millennial workforce in both internal and external leadership training sessions. Leadership training is necessary for developing leadership skills and competencies in millennial leaders. This works as a mentorship program to enable experienced leaders to pass knowledge and expertise in leadership, they have gained with experience to the millennial. This is helpful since it allows them to gain leadership expertise which positions them to be viable for leadership positions in the organization.
Delegation of Responsibilities
This is a role that is very difficult for most managers in an organization since they fear incompetence. A delegation of roles and responsibilities is, however, crucial in developing millennial leaders since it gives the millennial workers and individuals the chance to show what they can do and a learning opportunity on how to carry out various leader roles. They can learn through feedback and thus gives then the opportunity to develop more skilled and empowered leaders.
Giving the Millennial a Voice inside the Organization
This is a form of engagement whereby they are encouraged to raise their opinions on various issues affecting the organization and in the decision-making process. Giving them a voice helps to develop more value for the employees and it also helps the administration to identify individuals among the millennial employees with the potential of being leaders. This also contributes to expand their skills in communication and ...
Targeted Capacity Building - CCAT WebinarTCC Group
Julie Simpson from TCC Group spends one-hour defining and discussing targeted capacity building, why it matters, who is (and should be) involved, and specifics about each entity's role. There is a heavy emphasis on the role of local consultants -- particularly those who are CCAT-certified facilitators (with information on HOW you can become certified - for free!).
Networks come in all shapes and sizes. However, if you want to be a system shifting network you will need to put in place scaffolding so that transformation can emerge easily and quickly. In nature, billions of soil organisms and mycorrhizal fungal mats work together to form this type of scaffolding to distribute resources and support the growth of plants and trees as they create a forest. There are 6 basic structures that work together to create an environment for rapid change. Some, such as innovation funds, have been prototyped by many different networks. Others, such as communications systems and governance systems, are still in their infancy. Join June Holley and Yasmin Yonis from Network Weaver for a discussion about the necessary scaffolding for truly transformational networks.
Networks thrive on the initiative of members who see a need and invite others to take action with them. This is leadership in networks and in the best case scenario its widely distributed. And yet, supporting self-organizing is not easy. In this webinar we will share common obstacles to self-organizing and better yet, two things we have tried that seem to be working. Come hear about using Network Activation Funds and Facilitator Pools to help activate your network.
Everyday Equity is both a realization of and a path from power, love, and justice. In leadership practice, we consciously and unknowingly embed and enact principles and practices that embody and resist community well-being. This mindfulness-based webinar offers leaders perspectives and practices for compassionately awakening power, love, and justice. This webinar includes practicing tools, applying concepts, and reminding us of our loveliness – allowing us to contribute to community well-being by understanding and healing from harmful conditions toward transformative change.
Dr. Renato P. Almanzor is a transformation catalyst, whose experience emerges from over 25 years developing leaders committed to equitable communities, multicultural organizations, and social justice. As a leadership expert, he has delivered leadership development programs, keynote addresses, workshops and seminars on issues related to leadership for equity, cultural diversity, and social change. Much of his work has been dedicated to supporting community leaders working with and in low-income communities and communities of color. He has a PhD and MA in organizational psychology, an MS in counseling, and BA in psychology, as well as certifications in coaching and Zumba Instruction. He is a proud alum of the first Practices in Transformative Action, a mindfulness-based program for social justice activists through the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, California, where he also served as an apprentice the following year.
In this webinar, Lynn Fick-Cooper, Managing Director of Societal Advancement at the Center for Creative Leadership, will share the 5 critical leadership strategies CCL has learned from their vast experience developing the leadership capacity of nonprofit leaders and collaborative groups. During this webinar, Lynn will also take us through a deeper exploration of the first of those 5 strategies, Moving Beyond the Heroic Model of Leadership, by explaining and helping us all apply CCL’s Direction-Alignment-Commitment (DAC) leadership framework.
People who are putting their time, energy and resources into supporting and cultivating leadership are for the most part doing the work to advance meaningful change and social justice. Our learning about this work is struggling to keep up with our change aspirations. It's not enough to know that participants believe they are better leaders without answering questions about the ways in which leadership development work is creating equity and contributing to concrete changes in the health, education, and wealth of all. This webinar will share findings from a collaborative research efforts between leadership Funders and Evaluators to understand what we can achieve through leadership investments, how we can know, and what we are learning about the kind of leadership we need to contribute to greater equity.
The Network Mindset Trainings offer the building blocks for what a network mindset is, and how such mindsets show up in practice. There are only two sessions; Basic and/or Intermediate. The content for all the Basic sessions is the same; the content for all the Intermediate sessions is the same.
Our thinking about leadership is evolving as is the world in which greater numbers of people are coming together to take actions that will create greater equity. To keep pace, those who are supporting leadership for racial equity and social justice must pause, reflect and reconsider our approaches to leadership development. Because most leadership programs receive positive feedback from those participating in them, it can be hard to try something different...who wants to mess with what works, even if the payoff could be more dramatic results. It takes courage to do this and we are excited to have our friends from LeaderSpring share their "reset" process and what they are learning.
Join us as June Holley, Tracey Kunkler and Steve Waddell dive back into sharing the importance of Network Governance and Structures. We'll be learning how networks are experimenting with and co-creating innovative network governanceand structures that are self-organizing, encouraging and supporting the formation of collaborative circles.
Join us for 90 minutes of hands-on virtual practice! June will bring questions and you will be in practice breakout groups. Please plug in your webcams and have earphones ready to roll up your sleeves and practice with us!
Studies consistently show that less than 20% of nonprofit executive directors/CEO’s are people of color. The recent Race to Lead report offers a new story for how we think about and address this leadership gap: to increase the number of people of color leaders, the nonprofit sector needs to address the practices and biases of those governing nonprofit organizations.
This shifts the leadership development narrative to one that incorporates transformation at the individual and structural levels in pursuit of racial equity. One model is the California School-Age Consortium’s Leadership Development Institute fellowships. Within the year-long, cohort based model for emerging leaders in the out-of-school time field, power, privilege and oppression are elevated alongside traditional leadership competencies development. The model focuses on the unique experiences of people of color in the out-of-school time field, while simultaneously challenging the environments and structures that create racialized barriers toward advancement.
Emerging leaders in the out-of-school time field are positioned to influence policies and practices well beyond the field. Many follow pathways toward teacher and school leadership, policymaking, health and wellness, community organizing, juvenile justice and more. Hear directly from the co-designer and fellow of the program about the model, its challenges, successes and hopes toward racial equity and a more just society.
Many networks organize governance and operations with structures that mirror those of organizations: governing boards, committees, and operations staff. Unfortunately, these structures have often been a bad fit with networks, leading to decreased involvement and engagement by network participants who aren't on the governing board and shrinking network size and impact.
More and more networks are experimenting with and co-creating innovative network governance and structures that are self-organizing, encouraging and supporting the formation of collaborative circles for many or all of the operations and coordination functions of the network.
June Holley will share examples and offer several checklists and strategy worksheets to help your network determine if these new structures might be appropriate for them.
July 14, 2016
What does it mean for a foundation to become a facilitative leader? And how can foundation staff make the case for network-based funding approaches to boards and other stakeholders? This two-part series will explore successes and insights from the DentaQuest Foundation’s national systems change strategy Oral Health 2020. Started in 2011, this network-based strategy has achieved notable results—development of oral health leaders across the country, creation of new state partnerships connected to a national health improvement network, and tangible system and policy changes such as the expansion of public benefits in more than 15 states. Come learn about what it took to make this work happen from the perspective of Foundation leaders Brian Souza and Mike Monopoli, initiative evaluator Clare Nolan (Harder+Company Community Research), and network weaver Marianne Hughes (Interaction Institute for Social Change).
Part 2 will dive deeper into what it took to achieve these results, including lessons learned from network building as well as what it means for a foundation to take on a facilitative leadership role.
Working in networked ways is fundamentally different than traditional ways of working. Organizations can commit to a network approach yet not fully realize all the pieces and behaviors needed to make it actually work.
Carole Martin and Beth Tener will share their insights as coaches/facilitators with a wide range of social change network initiatives. They'll explore what they have been learning about which networks get traction and grow and which ones stumble, related to these themes:
What does organization readiness to embrace the network approach "look like"? How do board and staff members organize their time, priorities, and mindset differently?
How does leading look different both within and outside your organization?
What are some key pitfalls and lessons learned that you can keep in mind as you design for a more inclusive, joyous and connected way of working?
If your organization is pursuing networked ways of working, considering going this route or are on your way and hitting some bumps in the road, this will be a helpful conversation to participate in and invite in colleagues who are still learning.
We've all heard the rhetoric. The future is uncertain and complex. We can’t do it alone, and collaboration is critical. The only way to succeed is to learn as quickly as possible through experimentation, which means getting comfortable with failure.
But what does this mean in practice? If this were easy, there wouldn’t be so many pundits telling everyone else to do it.
Learning effectively through experimentation requires specific muscles and mindsets, which take time and practice to develop. Even if your group is already comfortable jumping into the unknown and learning by doing, a little bit of structure and discipline can go a long way in helping you do so successfully.
Eugene Eric Kim and Alison Lin will share their evolving public domain frameworks and tools for supporting effective experiments. They’ll then talk about the work they continue to do with the Social Transformation Project (STP) supporting experiments focusing on internal operational challenges and effective network collaboration. They’ll be joined by Jodie Tonita and Eden Kidane of STP, who will get real about what’s worked, and what hasn’t, and what’s coming next.
Connecting the Dots: Water Shutoffs, Pensions, Emergency Management, Bankruptcy & Beyond
Peter J. Hammer
Professor of Law, Director
Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights
Wayne State University Law School
Detroit, Michigan
September 30, 2015
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When Hurricane Sandy hit, a self organized network quickly emerged from pre-existing networks and new volunteers that resoundingly out performed traditional relief agencies. Why and how was this network able to do this? What does leadership look like in situations such as this that are complex and ever shifting? We will explore the nuts and bolts of self organizing, strategies for supporting such networks and how self organized strategies and leadership can be applied to your work on complex problems.
Welcome back to our networks and leadership webinar series! We host this space for practitioners and researchers in both the leadership and network development areas to connect and learn from each other.
Our presenter Chris Ernst is a four-way player: He is active in both research and practice of both leadership development and organizational network analysis. Chris is VP of Leadership and OE at Juniper Networks and a former senior faculty member of the Center for Creative Leadership.
Growing numbers of social change agents are building networks to increase impact. Using real-life case examples, this webinar offers an introduction to basic network concepts and approaches with an emphasis on how practitioners can strengthen their network through systematic monitoring and evaluation. Highlights from a recent framing paper and casebook developed by Network Impact and the Center for Evaluation Innovation include examples of leading evaluation frameworks and practical methods/tools.
The Greenlining Institute was founded as a response to institutional redlining of communities of color from economic opportunities. Twenty-two years later, the organization has grown in both scale and impact, including incorporating a strong commitment to the leadership development of emerging leaders of color. With its successes and challenges, Greenlining has learned many lessons on the road to positive social change. This webinar will focus on how the organization has evolved and created a renowned leadership development program for social justice leaders, while always maintaining its roots in racial equity and advocacy. In using the organization’s journey as a case study, participants will receive a perspective and best practices for incorporating a leadership development program from foundation to evaluation.
Session Description
Nonprofit leaders working to promote a more democratic and just society are grappling with how to adapt legacy organizations founded in an “analog” era to new realities shaped by the power of networks and technology. Concurrently, a growing number of grantmakers seek to support the leaders and organizations navigating these shifts – which can require funding new approaches to the work.
This interactive session will explore concrete examples of how pioneering social justice leaders have embraced technology and new forms of collaboration (like engaging unlikely allies) to advance immigration and criminal justice reform. We will also explore the role of the funder in supporting this leadership journey, and implications for others seeking to advance equity and inclusion.
The panel will include a range of perspectives from a funder, Daniel Lee, Executive Director, Levi Strauss Foundation; a next-generation civil rights leader, Vincent Pan, Executive Director, Chinese for Affirmative Action; Lateefah Simon, program director, Rosenberg Foundation and social impact expert, Heather McLeod Grant. In addition to their roles, the speakers are also diverse in terms of race, sexual orientation, gender, and experience.
http://leadershiplearning.org/blog/miriam-persley/2015-03-09/upcoming-webinar-pioneers-social-justice-bolstering-leaders-organizat
Discover the innovative and creative projects that highlight my journey throu...dylandmeas
Discover the innovative and creative projects that highlight my journey through Full Sail University. Below, you’ll find a collection of my work showcasing my skills and expertise in digital marketing, event planning, and media production.
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Putting the SPARK into Virtual Training.pptxCynthia Clay
This 60-minute webinar, sponsored by Adobe, was delivered for the Training Mag Network. It explored the five elements of SPARK: Storytelling, Purpose, Action, Relationships, and Kudos. Knowing how to tell a well-structured story is key to building long-term memory. Stating a clear purpose that doesn't take away from the discovery learning process is critical. Ensuring that people move from theory to practical application is imperative. Creating strong social learning is the key to commitment and engagement. Validating and affirming participants' comments is the way to create a positive learning environment.
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Unveiling the Secrets How Does Generative AI Work.pdfSam H
At its core, generative artificial intelligence relies on the concept of generative models, which serve as engines that churn out entirely new data resembling their training data. It is like a sculptor who has studied so many forms found in nature and then uses this knowledge to create sculptures from his imagination that have never been seen before anywhere else. If taken to cyberspace, gans work almost the same way.
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Sustainability has become an increasingly critical topic as the world recognizes the need to protect our planet and its resources for future generations. Sustainability means meeting our current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. It involves long-term planning and consideration of the consequences of our actions. The goal is to create strategies that ensure the long-term viability of People, Planet, and Profit.
Leading companies such as Nike, Toyota, and Siemens are prioritizing sustainable innovation in their business models, setting an example for others to follow. In this Sustainability training presentation, you will learn key concepts, principles, and practices of sustainability applicable across industries. This training aims to create awareness and educate employees, senior executives, consultants, and other key stakeholders, including investors, policymakers, and supply chain partners, on the importance and implementation of sustainability.
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1. Develop a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental principles and concepts that form the foundation of sustainability within corporate environments.
2. Explore the sustainability implementation model, focusing on effective measures and reporting strategies to track and communicate sustainability efforts.
3. Identify and define best practices and critical success factors essential for achieving sustainability goals within organizations.
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1. Leadership Learning Community
Learning from the Past and Future:
Inclusive Leadership for a New Era
Mission Statement: Our aim is to transform individuals and society
by connecting the learning and practice of those who support
leadership that is committed to promoting social and economic
equity.
What must change in our current approaches to leadership development if
we are to provide the scope and quality of leadership needed to address
the significant social problems of the 21st century?
“You cannot solve problems with the same level of consciousness that
was used to create them.” Albert Einstein
The Leadership Learning Community (LLC) believes that it is important to ask
ourselves what in our current consciousness about leadership needs to change if
we are to tackle the problems that we all care so deeply about. For the past eight
years the Leadership Learning Community has engaged hundreds of leadership
development funders, program staff and researchers in learning about how to
cultivate leadership that is inclusive, rooted in community values, and action-
oriented. In the process of our work together, we have identified the need for a
much broader and more culturally inclusive approach to cultivating and
sustaining leadership; that focuses on nurturing and supporting teams, networks,
and communities; and prepares individuals to lead collectively with others whose
leadership cultures and practices differ from their own.
As the economic and social divides widen, the nonprofit sector is being called to
a new level of leadership. Expanding and transforming the leadership culture in
the nonprofit sector depends both on building the leadership capacity of people
of color who have been excluded from leadership positions; and transforming the
conditions that sustain dominant forms of leadership that are inadequate for
addressing the problems we have. PolicyLink has documented that supporting
people of color to take on advocacy and leadership roles within their communities
is a prerequisite for reducing poverty and disparities.1 In a study on why people
of color are not moving into leadership positions within the nonprofit sector, LLC
found that leadership culture and organizational practices devalue the
contributions of people of color.2
1
Policy Link, “Leadership for Policy Change,”
http://www.policylink.org/Research/Leadership/
2
Leadership Learning Community, “Multiple Styles of Leadership: Increasing
Participation of People of Color in Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector” currently being
2. There are several opportunities for radically changing the leadership status quo.
• The anticipated transfer of leadership3 creates an opportunity to diversify
the sector; however, without a more inclusive leadership culture the under-
representation of people of color could worsen.
• The election of Barack Obama demonstrated a new leadership landscape
with a massive mobilization using decentralized self-organizing strategies,
unprecedented levels of civic engagement and the election of our first
African American president.
• The development of new social technologies presents unique
opportunities to connect leaders to reach new scales of influence;
however, realizing this potential requires a much deeper understanding
about how leadership emerges within networks and communities of
learning and practice.4
In order to take advantage of these opportunities, and reach the scale and scope
required to support systemic change, we will need to transform how we develop
and support leaders with a new consciousness about leadership.
What are the limitations of the current model?
The dominant thinking about leadership places a very strong emphasis on the
individual’s role in change. Often an individual’s contribution takes on heroic
proportions causing us to lose sight of leadership as a dynamic interconnected
process that relies on many individuals. We focus on this question because we
believe that the current heroic, individual model of leadership does not:
• Recognize and appreciate the leadership of people of color who exercise
leadership aligned with different cultural traditions and values that are
often less directive and more collective and community-focused;
• Develop our understanding of how to support leadership as a collective,
community or network process;
• Learn about how leadership is fostered and expressed in communities;
and
• Understand the implications for leadership in the move from organization-
centric to network-centric approaches to change.
revised for publication. http://leadershiplearning.org/node/95
3
See CompassPoint, “Daring to Lead,”
www.meyerfoundation.org/downloads/4DaringtoLead2006d.pdf and Up Next:
Generation Change and the Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations Annie E. Casey
Foundation; Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
http://www.aecf.org/KnowledgeCenter/Publications.aspx?pubguid={4756F522-
E7B4-4940-ABB3-BDA345917235}
4
Allison H. Fine, Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age, Jossey-
Bass: SanFrancisco, 2006.
Leadership Learning Community - Knowledge Synthesis Project, page 2
3. The Costs of Our Current Leadership Thinking: If we do not broaden our
thinking and leadership practices beyond the current models, we believe there
will be certain costs. We believe that the current model of heroic individual
leadership will not enable us to:
Support the Leadership of People of Color: People of color will continue to be
under-recognized for their leadership contributions and will be under-represented
in leadership positions without more culturally inclusive leadership models. Many
people of color interviewed by LLC explained that their leadership is rendered
invisible when they do not conform to the dominant leadership norms that
privilege a directive style of leadership even when they are actually
accomplishing more through a facilitative style that unleashes team capacity.5
The leadership values of love, equity, justice, and community, which are critical
to leadership success for people of color, are often not supported within the
dominant leadership models. If we continue to privilege the dominant model
about what leadership should look like, people of color will not have influence at
policy tables, in designing community based solutions, and in addressing
disparities along a number of political and socio-economic dimensions.
Strengthen Collective Leadership Capacity: James MacGregor Burns, often
considered the father of the leadership development field and author of the
seminal leadership book Leadership6, was asked in a recent interview about the
next frontier for the field of leadership. Without hesitation he answered, “We
need to better understand leadership as a collective process.” There is a growing
recognition that individual leaders need to be trained to work more effectively to
unleash the collective leadership capacity of a group; and to better understand
how diverse groups, especially those representing multiple organizations and
stakeholders, identify shared purpose and vision and create capacity for
coordinated action. Some programs have expressed concern that the selection
and recognition of individuals may actually undermine the collective process and
diminish the work of teams who share responsibility for achievements.
Build and Sustain Cross Sectoral Work: Solving community problems requires an
integrated cross-sectoral leadership approach focused on systems-wide change
rather than individual leadership that tackles problems as isolated special
interests.7 Focusing on the individual leader does not support an integrated,
community problem-solving approach. The fragmentation of the non-profit sector
persists with most leadership programs focused on organizational improvements
that are not able to address sector-wide problems with systemic thinking and
solutions.
5
See the LLC study on “Multiple Styles of Leadership: Increasing Participation of People
of Color in Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector” currently being revised for publication.
http://leadershiplearning.org/node/95
6
James MacGregor Burns, Leadership, Harper: New York, 1978.
7
See the study by Dr. Jeanne Campbell and Tom Adams on “Grassroots Leadership:
Growing Healthy and Sustainable Communities,”
www.wkkf.org/Pubs/CCT/Leadership/GrassrtsSptFndrs2PC_2003_01_21.pdf
Leadership Learning Community - Knowledge Synthesis Project, page 3
4. Leverage Current Network Trends: Current technological developments and
organizing trends are rapidly increasing the potential of ad hoc groups and
networks to lead change work. If the current assumptions about the power of the
individual to exert influence (usually in an organizational context) persists, we will
continue to maintain the leadership status quo and miss opportunities to
participate in the large scale networked change processes and social movements
that are needed to solve complex problems in the current environment.
Enhance Leadership within Communities: Leadership is deeply embedded in
relationships and communities, a fact that is often overlooked when individuals
become the focus of leadership development. Developing the skills and
capacities to work effectively with others in communities is not accomplished by
pulling people out of place and away from their community connections. Place-
based leadership development strategies have demonstrated success in more
effectively addressing and solving community problems because they engage a
broad cross-section of leaders and are more responsive to the community’s
needs.8
To support more inclusive leadership models we need to ask:
• What approaches are successfully supporting and enhancing the
leadership of people of color and addressing organizational climate?
• What opportunities do the rapid changes in social media create to support
and leverage the impact of leadership within networks and social
movements
• What approaches are supporting leadership as a collective process?
• How can we understand, innovate and design leadership development
strategies that support people in a community context?
• How can we develop leadership evaluations that measure and encourage
collective and networked leadership?
What could change?
As our dominant models and assumptions about leadership our challenged, and
leadership enhancement strategies reflect more inclusive and connected
approaches to supporting leadership, we expect to see that:
• Leadership programs are serving more people of color.
• Leadership programs have adopted the approaches and program design
elements that are most conducive to supporting people of color.
8
See “The Collective Leadership Framework:A Workbook for Cultivating and Sustaining
Community Change” http://www.ethicalleadership.org/publications/publications which
was developed for and used by the Kellogg Leadership for Communtiy Change program.
See also the Policy Link report, “Why Place Matters: Building a Movement for Healthy
Communities,” www.policylink.org/documents/WhyPlaceMattersreport_web.pdf
Leadership Learning Community - Knowledge Synthesis Project, page 4
5. • Performance review and recognition systems historically tied to the
dominant culture’s leadership model become more aligned with inclusive
and connected leadership models.
• Funders report increased ability to identify and invest in leadership
programs and strategies that diversify leadership and address issues of
fragmentation.
• Leadership programs find that their graduates are reporting increased
collaboration across a number of significant divides.
• There are more models of leadership enhancement strategies that are
supporting leadership action utilizing networks.
Conclusion
We believe that the lessons from current leadership work and the learning from a
rapidly changing environment can be integrated to generate a new body of
theory, practice and evaluation results that can shift the current leadership
paradigm to exponentially increase impact, the sustainability of social innovation
and systemic change.
Leadership Learning Community - Knowledge Synthesis Project, page 5
6. REFLECTION QUESTIONS:
•What leadership design, curriculum and recruitment approaches will foster
increased collective leadership capacity that is inclusive, rooted in community
and action oriented?
•What opportunities do the rapid changes in social media create to support and
leverage the impact of leadership within networks and social movements
•How can leadership programs more effectively cultivate, promote and sustain
the leadership of people of color.
•How do we appropriately target our leadership investments (e.g., the types of
experiences and activities we support) to get the outcomes we seek?
•How do we measure changes in collective (or community) leadership capacity?
How do our evaluation tools simultaneously build reflective learning capacity and
document concrete results?
Leadership Learning Community - Knowledge Synthesis Project, page 6