Upcoming Webinars

Past Webinars

• Action Learning - Maximizing its Use in Community-Based Leadership Development Programs, Dr. Donna Dinkin, Dinkin & Associates, LLC (April 2012)
  This webinar is for individuals who are interested in maximizing the use of action learning as a component of a formal leadership development program. Specifically, the session will define ‘action-learning’, will highlight how this methodology is being used in public health leadership development programs and will briefly describe strategies and challenges for coaches of community-based action-learning teams.
  Objectives:
  • To increase understanding of how regional PHLIs have utilized Action-Learning Projects as a developmental methodology.
  • To increase understanding of strategies and challenges to providing Action Learning Coaching to project teams
  • To provide an opportunity for discussion of personal experiences related action learning and action-learning coaching.
     
• Confessions of a Network Strategist: Lessons Learned for the First Year of Education Pioneers' Network Strategy,  Jason Weeby, Education Pioneers (March 2012)
  In late 2010, Education Pioneers decided to shift from a traditional alumni engagement strategy to a new and innovative network strategy.  The change required a new way of thinking and acting for Education Pioneers’ staff and 1,200+ network members.  It has been the source of excitement, confusion, successes, and challenges.  Jason Weeby, the Director of Network Strategy for the national nonprofit, talked about their new direction, lessons learned in the first year of implementation, and the incredible potential of the strategy’s next iteration. Also, check out this relevant guest blog post by Jason Weeby, Networks: The Missing Piece in Leadership Development.
   
• The Promise and Perils of Supporting and Evaluating Network Formation and Development, Kim Ammann Howard, BTW information change; Melanie Moore, See Change; Claire Reinelt, Leadership Learning Community (February 2012)
  In recent years, leadership funders have begun experimenting widely with how to move beyond investments in programs and organizations to funding the formation and development of networks in order to catalyze greater collective impact. Drawing on the experiences and examples of three leadership network evaluators, this session explored the following questions:
  • What are the promises and perils of investing in network formation? What evaluation questions are important to ask?
  • What are critical practices for supporting and nurturing the emergence and development of networks? How can evaluation inform the development and support of networks over time?
  • What are promising practices for evaluating network behavior and network effects in the early stages of network formation?
     
• If You Till It, They Will Come: Nurturing Collective Leadership, Curtis Ogden and Gibran Rivera, Interaction Institute for Social Change (January 2012)
  This webinar session looked at how to create the conditions for emergent and collective leadership to move us in more just and life-affirming directions. Given the complexity of the issues we face and the diversity of perspectives in our various systems, it has been recognized that we cannot rely on individual, expert, or command-and-control leadership to move us forward. We must unleash more robust and adaptive collective intelligence. IISC Senior Associates Curtis Ogden and Gibran Rivera explored stories of and practices for creating the conditions to unleash leader-full momentum that embodies and leads to the social change we seek.

• Coaching as a Leadership Development Strategy, Michelle Gislason, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services (December 2011)
  This webinar session explored coaching as a leadership development strategy. CompassPoint shared what they have learned about how coaching can help nonprofit leaders succeed along with highlights from the Coaching and Philanthropy Project and their own work incorporating coaching into several leadership development programs.
   
• Leadership for Networks Designed to Change Systems: ReAmp Case Study, Heather McLeod Grant and Rick Reed (December 2011)
  This webinar, with a particular focus on network leadership, looked at how to build aligned action networks powerful enough to move the needle on   major social challenges. The ReAmp network comprised of 125 nonprofits and funders across eight states in the U.S.'s upper midwest has been focused on just on audacious goal: reducing regional global warming emissions 80 percent (from 2005 levels) by 2050. And it's working. This webinar looks at what they are doing.

• Communities, Networks and Engagement: Finding a Place for Action, Nancy White (September 2011)
  We have so many online tools at our disposal to theoretically connect and activate engagement with others. But what happens when we say "we're building an online community" but few engage? When is it worth the work and effort? What are our options? And if we build it, what are some starting points to help us work towards successful engagement? Also, be sure to check out a resource shared by Nancy, CPsquare which is a "Community of Practice on Communities of Practice." Nancy has been engaging in and facilitating online groups since 1996 - with her fair share of successes and failures.
   
• Are You A Network Weaver? June Holley, Network Weaver (August 2011)
  This interactive session introduces the term Network Weaver as a way of understanding how leadership is shifting in a networked world. Juneexplains four roles -- connector, facilitator, coach and network guardian — filled by Network Weavers and share activities that you can implement with your networks.

• Daring to Lead 2011: Leadership Development & Support for Nonprofit Leaders, Marla Cornelius, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services (July 2011)
  Executives’ use of coaching, peer networks, and leadership development programs are on the rise and are ranked the top three most effective strategies by executive directors for leadership development and support. And while shared leadership is a common value among the vast majority of nonprofit executives, many find it challenging to put these values into practice through organizational systems and structures.  These findings are among those reported in Daring to Lead 2011 CompassPoint’s recent study of over 3000 nonprofit executives nationwide. Marla explores the report’s findings, implications, and the actions that nonprofit leaders, funders, and capacity builders can take to better support executives and the organizations they dare to lead.

• Systems Thinking and Racial Justice,Professor john powell, Kirwan Institute (May 2011)
  In this webinar, Professor john powell talks about how systems thinking and a structural lens can inform our work for racial justice and deepen our understanding of racial disparities. He examines how the interactions of structures and institutions create not only opportunity and deprivation, but also inhabit our ideas and language about race, identity and the self.

Systems Thinking and Racial Justice Featuring Professor john powell

• A Case Study in Popular Education and Scaling Leadership Impact (June 2011)
  The Horizons Program offers a compelling story for all in the field of leadership who care deeply about how to connect and mobilize leadership at the scale needed to address complex social problems. In 2003, the Northwest Area Foundation launched the Horizon’s program, an ambitious leadership program to help rural communities deal with issues of poverty. According to external documentation, this program engaged over 100,000 people from 238 rural communities across seven states in a multifaceted leadership process. Participating communities launched 1,811 action plans to address the impact of poverty in the life of their community, e.g. youth development, jobs, economic development, and adult education.  Participants in this webinar describe the basics of the program, highlight successes, discuss challenges and perhaps, expand our thinking about community leadership.

Leadership Learning Community Webinar Series: A Case Study on Popular Education from Leadership Learning Community on Vimeo.

• The Inner Dance of Collective Leadership, featuring Alain Gauthier (April 28, 2011)
  In this webinar, Alain Gauthier introduced an integral approach to collective leadership development and invited participants into an exchange on the following questions:
  
  1. If you have experienced collective leadership, how do you find it different from individual leadership?
  2. In your experience of collective leadership, what are some of the inner shifts in beliefs and attitudes that you have witnessed in yourself and others, in comparison to individual leadership?
  3. What practices can be used to actualize collective leadership and access collective wisdom?

• Strategic Planning for Networks, featuring Eugene Eric Kim (March 22, 2011)
  In this webinar, Eugene Eric Kim describes how to do strategic planning for networks. He draws heavily from his experience leading the open strategic planning process for the Wikimedia movement, which drew over 1,000 participants and led to a movement-wide shift in focus on increasing reach and participation in developing countries. He shares how you can leverage these types of processes for both your network and your organization.

• Network of Network Funders Webinar, Co-hosted by the Leadership Learning Community and the Monitor Institute (December 15, 2010)

• Leadership and Race Report Webinar (September 28, 2010)

• Leadership for a New Era Engagement Webinar (January 19, 2010)

• Leadership, Race, and White Privilege Webinar with Sally Leiderman (May 2009)
  LLC hosted a webinar on Leadership, Race and White Privilege with Sally Leiderman, President of CAPD. Sally has been a long-time member of LLC and an active participant in the Evaluation Circle. She received an LLC seed grant to support her work to disseminate share and disseminate a curriculum on white privilege that can be adapted and used in leadership development programs. During the webinar Sally presented findings from a survey of 123 leadership development funders, practitioners, and evaluators. With one program in mind, each survey respondent had answered questions about how their program addressed issues of diversity, structural racism, and white privilege.

• Leadership Networks and Social Network Mapping Webinar with Claire Reinelt (LLC) and Bruce Hoppe (Connective Associates) (June 2008)
  The Health Leadership Circle held a WebEx learning session on Leadership Networks and Social Network Mapping. Claire Reinelt (Leadership Learning Community) and Bruce Hoppe (Connective Associates) facilitated the call. Claire reviewed key findings from the Health Leadership Circle network survey about what health issues Circle members focus most on in their work and what Circle members most want to learn.

• Sustainable Leadership Networks Webinar (January 2008)
  Three LLC circles (Sustaining Networks/Alumni, Social Media and Leadership, and Health Leadership) convened for a conference call and web-based meeting using the WebEx platform to discuss creating and sustaining leadership networks. Twenty people explored the following questions:
  • What forms of collaboration and network creation are we seeing in the leadership development arena?
  • What tools or processes do we find strengthen leadership networks?
  • What are the biggest challenges to sustaining network participation?

• Evaluating Health Leadership Development- A Case Study of the “Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders” Initiative. By Center for Creative Leadership (September 2007)