Course Content
Evolving Your Leadership Style for Greater Impact – June 18, 2025: 10am to 1pm PST
Understanding leadership models and decision-making styles; being your authentic self while managing the needs and expectations of your staff, board, and external stakeholders.
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Pre-Work, Reflections, and Readings
The Executive Director’s Role in Program Innovation, Program Strategy, and Mission Impact – July 16, 2025: 10am to 1pm PST
Finding the right balance between leading, collaborating, empowering others, and delegating in the areas of program innovation, strategy, and mission impact.
Strategic HR Leadership – August 20, 2025: 10am to 1pm PST
Navigating complex personnel and HR issues.
Managing Tensions between Fundraising, Financial Sustainability, Organizational Values & Mission Impact – September 17, 2025: 10am to 1pm PST
Making difficult decisions about: (1) whether to accept/pursue funding when the interests & priorities of your funders, board, and/or staff diverge; and (2) how to best focus your financial resources between urgent needs today vs. long-term sustainability.
Crisis Leadership – October 22, 2025:10am to 1pm PST
Proactive strategies for navigating and leading through unexpected crises, ensuring organizational resilience and continued service to vulnerable clients.
Ensuring Organizational Success for a Future with New Leadership – November 12, 2025: 10am to 1pm PST
What can you be doing now to prepare your organization and ensure the success of your successors (whether that leadership succession happens soon or many years later).
Strategic Leadership: Navigating the Now
About Lesson

The first session on Evolving Your Leadership Style for Greater Impact will be taught by Nelson Layag, who is a certified leadership coach and organizational consultant specializing in social justice and nonprofit organizations. Here is the zoom link to the training.

Training Objectives:  

This training will explore common leadership competencies that you can develop to support your growth. We will review and apply strategies for managing change using multiple frameworks: Wheel of Change, Adaptive Leadership, VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity). At the end of the training, you will have an increased awareness of leadership behaviors others consider most important and have a stronger understanding of the intersection of change, transition, and adaptive challenges. Finally, you will identify personal behaviors and practices that you can lean into that will have an impact on how you will lead your organizations and team. 

 

  1. Read and Review Community Agreements (3-6 minutes) Strategic Leadership Community Agreements .docx Reflect on which 2-3 (besides Confidentiality) are you want to focus on or lean into during the session together because it may be challenging for you, important for you, or something that would benefit the group and yourself the most. See attached in Exercise Files.
  2. Read Article on VUCA (3-7 minutes) Navigating Uncharted Waters: Leadership in a VUCA World — Monisha Kapila
  3. Pick 3 critical values that guide your leadership. (3-10 minutes) Here’s a list but you can come up 3 on your own. Dare to Lead | List of Values – Brené Brown
Exercise Files
Strategic Leadership Community Agreements_fin.pdf
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