Leading for Impact Academy

Unlock your potential as a people-centered, high-impact leader! Leading for impact helps organizations and teams to thrive during challenging times by building psychological safety, belonging, and resilience among diverse teams. This intimate, cohort-based program provides nonprofit leaders with the confidence, skills, and knowledge to take their leadership skills to the next level. Our human-centered, peer learning approach allows for mutual exchange and trust-building, enabling exploration of leadership topics that touch our daily lives. Participants will access proven, practical tools for fostering employees’ growth, well-being and empowerment in today’s rapidly changing world.

Empowered Leadership for Everyone:

• High-impact leaders unlock the individual potential of team members and the collective power of teams.
• High-impact leadership helps organizations and teams to thrive during times of change by increasing trust, safety, and resilience.
• High-impact leaders who implement people-first strategies report a profound shift in their own work culture—including improved performance and higher engagement from team members, greater appreciation for diverse perspectives, improved communication and collaboration, and increased unity and belonging among employees.

Curriculum:

1. Your Leading Journey
2. The Building Blocks of People-Centered Leadership
3. Addressing Barriers and Bias: Leading with Accountability
4. Creating Cultures of Belonging (psychological safety, transparency, and practical strategies for building organizational cultures where people feel deeply welcomed and needed)
5. Having Courageous Conversations During Difficult Times (open communication, “speak up” cultures, and conflict resolution)
6. Strategies for Well-Being (work/life harmony, preventing burnout, how to build well-being into your culture)

Learning Objectives:

• Learn the principles of people-first leadership and how to embed them in your work at the individual and organizational levels.
• Increase awareness of individual identity, social location, and power and their roles in shaping how we lead.
• Increase leaders’ capacity to address common leadership challenges that impact performance, engagement, and retention.
• Learn how to create and sustain organizational structures that foster trust, safety, equity, and inclusion.
• Refine skills to model inclusive behavior and develop your own impactful leadership action plan.

Details and Logistics:

• $795 early bird (February 10-March 6) and $895 regular registration (March 7-March 27)
• (6) 3 hour sessions via Zoom
• Meeting frequency will be monthly. Specific dates will be determined by the group’s availability.
• First meeting: Tuesday, April 8 at 9am-12pm CT
• Who can participate? Organizational leaders
• Limited to 10 registrants on a first come, first serve basis

Statement of Values:

We strive to empower leaders’ courageous engagement in this academy so that they may better serve their organizations and communities. In recruiting for this academy, we seek to foster the intentional inclusion of people of all races, abilities, nationalities, religions, ages, socioeconomic statuses, sexualities, gender identities/expressions, and beliefs. Systems of oppression have traditionally created barriers for persons and groups with particular identities, ages, abilities, and histories. This academy aims to replace such barriers with ever-widening circles of inclusion, equity, and mutual respect.

Meet the Facilitator:

Dr. Elisa Glick (she/her) is a leadership consultant, speaker, coach, educator, and award-winning educator with over 20 years experience in higher education. As the Founder and President of Elisa Glick Consulting, she helps leaders build trust in the workplace, one courageous conversation at a time. Elisa is the founder of the innovative Faculty Institute for Inclusive Teaching at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has expertise in creating inclusive and antiracist curricula, facilitating equity-enhancing trainings, and developing and implementing inclusive teaching programming. Her teaching and academic publications on LGBTQ+ Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Black Studies speak to her commitment to social justice. After retiring in 2023, Elisa was awarded the title Associate Professor Emerita in recognition of the many contributions she made to the University of Missouri during her tenure. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Brown University.