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 (investing in your capacity to thrive, course goals, community agreements)
- Building a Culture Where People Can Thrive (principles of thriving leadership, thriving mindset, empathic communication)
- Addressing Barriers and Bias: Fostering Collective Empowerment through Shared Accountability
- Thriving Together (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:
A dynamic speaker, award-winning educator, and leadership coach, Elisa empowers organizations and leaders to create workplaces where trust, collective care, and inclusion aren’t just values—they are lived experiences. As the Founder and President of Elisa Glick Consulting, Dr. Glick’s work is rooted in the belief that when organizations prioritize human-centered values everyone thrives. Balancing compassionate encouragement with holding leaders accountable, she helps nonprofit leaders develop actionable strategies to create resilient and empowering cultures—leading to stronger teams, increased innovation, and greater impact. Elisa is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Missouri, where she was a professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies for 22 years. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Brown University.
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What Elisa’s former academy participants are saying:
“Dr. Glick’s Academy was a truly fulfilling experience. She provided a safe and nurturing environment to explore the challenges of inclusive leadership, gave us useable tools and resources, and held us accountable. Dr. Glick supported us through hard conversations and made us dig into what was holding us back from being an inclusive leader. We were able to learn from each other and left with concrete action steps to integrate into our work.”
—Michelle Trupiano, Executive Director, Missouri Family Health Council, Inc.
“One of CMCA’s trusted leaders attended the full academy and said “we have to bring this to CMCA!” Elisa spent two half days with us digging into courageous conversations, psychological safety, creating community agreements, and more of the heavy lifting necessary for teams to operate at their best. Our leadership team has so many different personalities and strengths. Elisa helped us figure out how to draw these out so everybody has a voice and they’re willing to use it.”
—Darin Preis, Executive Director, Central Missouri Community Action
“The academy provided me with the opportunity to deeply reflect on my own leadership style and identify areas where I could improve in terms of inclusivity. Understanding my biases and recognizing how they might affect my decisions has been a pivotal part of my growth.”
—Past Academy Participant
“Great experience! All that I expected and more. Built my overall confidence to do the work and have those courageous conversations.”
—Past Academy Participant
