Leading with Purpose, Courage, and Care
Unlock your potential as a thriving leader in today’s rapidly changing world! Leadership that prioritizes human flourishing helps organizations and teams to succeed 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. As a participant you will access proven, practical tools for fostering your own capacity to thrive as well as the growth, well-being, and empowerment of those you lead.
Empowered Leadership for Everyone:
- Leadership that fosters a thriving work culture unlocks the individual potential of team members and the collective power of teams.
- Thriving, people-first leaders help organizations and teams to flourish during times of change by increasing trust, safety, and resilience.
- Leaders who implement strategies for thriving 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:
- Your Thriving Leadership Journey
- Building a Culture Where People Can Thrive
- Addressing Barriers and Bias: Fostering Collective Empowerment through Shared Accountability
- Creating Team Thriving (psychological safety, belonging, and practical strategies for building teams and organizational cultures where people feel deeply welcomed and needed)
- Having Courageous Conversations During Difficult Times (open communication, “speak up” cultures, and conflict resolution)
- Strategies for Well-Being (work/life harmony, preventing burnout, how to build well-being into your culture)
Learning Objectives:
- Learn the principles of thriving 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 well-being, performance, engagement, and retention.
- Learn how to create and sustain organizational structures that foster trust, safety, equity, and inclusion.
- Refine skills to model thriving behavior and develop your own Leading to Thrive 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.
