Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.7.2, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Leadership Learning Community Making Space For Relationship Building ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://leadershiplearning.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [I went to Italy to learn a language. I learned how to slow down.](https://leadershiplearning.org/i-went-to-italy-to-learn-a-language-i-learned-how-to-slow-down/) - A personal reflection on rest, presence, and liberatory leadership, and what six weeks in Italy taught one leader about slowing down and letting go. - [What if releasing was not a sign of failure but a courageous act of leadership?](https://leadershiplearning.org/what-if-releasing-was-not-a-sign-of-failure-but-a-courageous-act-of-leadership/) - Discover the art of releasing in leadership. Learn how to compost old patterns and move with intention in 2026 using the Liberatory Leadership Framework. - [An Update on our Lovings and Learnings about Liberatory Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/an-update-on-our-lovings-and-learnings-about-liberatory-leadership/) - Explore our reflections and collective learnings from our journey practicing and operationalizing liberatory leadership. - [The Liberatory Leadership Series: Four Articles and Tools for Just and Joyous Work.](https://leadershiplearning.org/the-liberatory-leadership-series-four-articles-and-tools-for-just-and-joyous-work/) - This year, we had the opportunity for a deeper dive into the foundation, application, and theory behind our Liberatory Leadership Framework through a four-part series in Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ). - [Ceremonial Insights: Medicines to Rebalance Relationships under Authoritarianism](https://leadershiplearning.org/ceremonial-insights-medicines-to-rebalance-relationships-under-authoritarianism/) - The power of ceremony and ancestral tradition to offer three medicines for navigating political, ecological, and personal upheaval: Love, Dignity, and Accountability & Responsibility. The piece grows out of a gathering on the shores of the Tchefuncte River in Louisiana and weaves together wisdom from multiple traditions as a call to action to build a more just world. - [First-Hand Lessons on Leadership Transitions: A Conversation with Viridiana Hernandez](https://leadershiplearning.org/first-hand-lessons-on-leadership-transitions-a-conversation-with-viridiana-hernandez/) - Viridiana Hernandez shares first-hand lessons on leadership transitions, addressing the emotional weight carried by leaders from historically excluded communities and offering a vital roadmap, including a call for philanthropy to invest in people, rest, and resilience for movement survival. - [When Movements Carry Wounds: What Systems Constellations Reveals That Strategy Cannot](https://leadershiplearning.org/when-movements-carry-wounds-what-systems-constellations-reveals-that-strategy-cannot/) - Systems Constellations illuminates how organizational wounds, like the UFW's founding trauma revealed by Dolores Huerta, live in a movement's DNA and repeat patterns of sacrifice that strategy cannot address - [Trusting in a claw machine](https://leadershiplearning.org/trusting-in-a-claw-machine/) - Explore how the rigged nature of a claw machine offers a deeper understanding of social systems, synthetic trust, and the journey toward liberatory leadership and justice. - [A Liberatory Approach to Measuring Network Impact](https://leadershiplearning.org/a-liberatory-approach-to-measuring-network-impact/) - Explore a liberatory leadership approach to measuring network impact. Move beyond traditional quantitative metrics to embrace qualitative, human-centered evaluation that prioritizes deep relationships, shared power, and systemic transformation. - [LLC’s 2025 Celebrations](https://leadershiplearning.org/leadership-learning-community-2025-celebrations/) - Leadership Learning Community's 2025 year-end reflection explores our collective learning, from the release of the Liberatory Leadership Framework to key lessons on navigating leadership transitions and the our learning framework evaluation. - [A Journey of Books: Celebrating 25 Years of LLC](https://leadershiplearning.org/a-journey-of-books-celebrating-25-years-of-leadership/) - As the Leadership Learning Community (LLC) marks its 25th anniversary, we find ourselves reflecting on the journey, the learning, and the relationships that have enriched our journey and sustained our work. - [Calls to Each Other: Duchesne Drew](https://leadershiplearning.org/calls-to-each-other-duchesne-drew/) - To celebrate our 25th anniversary, LLC is hosting a special series of conversations with Duchesne Drew. This interview honors our journey, lifts the essence of who we are, and reflects on the meaningful relationships and work that have shaped LLC over the past 25 years. - [Calls to Each Other: Krystal Portalatin-Gauthier](https://leadershiplearning.org/calls-to-each-other-krystal-portalatin-gauthier/) - To celebrate our 25th anniversary, LLC is hosting a special series of conversations with Krystal Portalatin-Gauthier This interview honors our journey, lifts the essence of who we are, and reflects on the meaningful relationships and work that have shaped LLC over the past 25 years. - [Calls to Each Other: Deborah Meehan](https://leadershiplearning.org/calls-to-each-other-deborah-meehan/) - To celebrate our 25th anniversary, LLC is hosting a special series of conversations with Deborah Meehan. This interview honors our journey, lifts the essence of who we are, and reflects on the meaningful relationships and work that have shaped LLC over the past 25 years. - [Calls to Each Other: Bella Celnik](https://leadershiplearning.org/calls-to-each-other-bella-celnik/) - To celebrate our 25th anniversary, LLC is hosting a special series of conversations with Bella Celnik. This interview honors our journey, lifts the essence of who we are, and reflects on the meaningful relationships and work that have shaped LLC over the past 25 years. - [From Caracas to Here: Holding Grief, Hope, and the Dream of Freedom](https://leadershiplearning.org/from-caracas-to-here-holding-grief-hope-and-the-dream-of-freedom/) - Explore the Venezuelan diaspora experience through a personal lens, highlighting the impact of political unrest, migration challenges, and the ongoing fight for democracy, human rights, and freedom. - [Finding Our Flow: Navigating Transitions with Presence and Love](https://leadershiplearning.org/navigating-transitions-with-presence-and-love/) - This summer, the usual invitation to slow down and savor the season arrives against a backdrop of profound and unsettling change. On personal, organizational, and national levels, we’re all navigating a period of intense transition - [Reflections from the Leadership Cosmos: 25 Years of Expanding Possibilities](https://leadershiplearning.org/reflections-from-the-leadership-cosmos-25-years-of-expanding-possibilities/) - A 3-part virtual series to explore and practice the core tenets of liberatory leadership, connection, equity, joy, love, and collective freedom. - [The opposite of anxiety is trust.](https://leadershiplearning.org/the-opposite-of-anxiety-is-trust/) - By Nikki DinhThe scale at which change is happening is what our movements might have dreamt of, but not like this. Through one lens, the breakdown of due process and the casual violence towards workers, college students, citizens, and non-citizens is unsafe, often unconstitutional, reckless, immoral, and inhumane. Within the social good sector, our effectiveness - [Umami Sweet: Reflecting On My Transition](https://leadershiplearning.org/eflecting-on-my-leadership-transition/) - LLC has frequently been gifted with the opportunity to hold organizations through leadership transitions, often using wisdom from our own experiences. - [Liberatory Practice and Racial Equity: Three Perspectives on Leadership in Disruptive Times](https://leadershiplearning.org/liberatory-practice-and-racial-equity-three-perspectives-on-leadership-in-disruptive-times/) - This blog brings together insights from three organizations: ProInspire, Leadership Learning Community (LLC), and CompassPoint, each of which works at the intersection of leadership in nonprofits, capacity building, and philanthropy. We share a commitment to racial equity and justice and liberatory practices. - [The Story Behind Our Liberatory Leadership Framework. A conversation with Ericka Stallings and Iman Mills Gordon.](https://leadershiplearning.org/behind-liberatory-leadership-framework/) - This conversation delves into the importance of the liberatory leadership framework in the current climate, the origins, motivations, and some of the key concepts that readers will find in the framework. - [Đẹp quá!](https://leadershiplearning.org/dep-qua/) - Đẹp quá! or That is beautiful! - Nikki shares how deeply war and its language have shaped our culture and even our movements, and what we can do to endure, continue, and even thrive. - [Lessons on change from the immortal jellyfish.](https://leadershiplearning.org/lesson-on-leadership-transitions/) - Facing organizational shifts? Find support and resources for leadership transitions rooted in love and justice in challenging times. - [DEI and the Monster: Fear, Policy, and the Future of Inclusion](https://leadershiplearning.org/dei-and-liberatory-leadership/) - DEI has been cast as a political monster. This article unpacks the fear, confusion, and policy shifts surrounding DEI, exploring how we can move beyond the rhetoric and toward true liberatory leadership. - [Love Work: Liberatory Leadership in Practice](https://leadershiplearning.org/love-work-liberatory-leadership/) - This is a letter from the editors of Love Work: Liberatory Leadership in Practice, a transformative exploration of leadership that centers on justice, equity, and collective liberation. It captures the reflections, lessons learned, and tools from the Liberatory Leadership Community of Practice. - [Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose](https://leadershiplearning.org/power-properly-understood/) - Social good actors are exploring new language orientations and ways of thinking about the relationship between leadership, power, and racial justice. - [Softening Our Gaze : Lessons in Liberatory Leadership During My Time at LLC](https://leadershiplearning.org/softening-our-gaze-lessons-in-liberatory-leadership/) - By Sadia HassanWhen I was new to loving kindness meditation (and let’s be honest, I still am), there would come a point in my morning practice where the disembodied voice on the other end of my phone would tell me to train my attention on an object or a point on the wall and soften - [Bella's 2024 Book Recommendations](https://leadershiplearning.org/2024-book-recommendations/) - This is not a book review but rather a list of five books I read this year that have moved and inspired me. - [Wisdom on change - LLC’s year in review 2024](https://leadershiplearning.org/wisdom-on-change/) - As 2024 ends, reflect with us on what we have learned from this year and the wisdom we have gained. Connection and rest are key in liberatory work. - [How to space/time travel (and do it safely)](https://leadershiplearning.org/how-to-space-time-travel-and-do-it-safely/) - By Nikki Dinh and Ericka Stallings“Have you space/time traveled before?” might not be the most expected question in a formal research interview or check-in question at a professional work meeting, but it’s what we’ve been asking leaders over this past year. And to our surprise, many leaders respond with, “Yes, I have…”In retrospect, we should - [What We Are Learning about Liberatory Staff Recruitment Part 1: The Application and Interview Process](https://leadershiplearning.org/what-we-are-learning-about-liberatory-staff-recruitment-part-1-the-application-and-interview-process/) - April 24, 2023 - Learn about how we conducted our most recent hiring process, how we applied a liberatory lens, what went well, some things we got wrong, and what we learned from the full experience. - [What We Are Learning about Liberatory Staff Recruitment Part 2: Decision Making, Offer and Onboarding](https://leadershiplearning.org/what-we-are-learning-about-liberatory-staff-recruitment-part-2-decision-making-offer-and-onboarding/) - May 19, 2023 - Establishing new liberatory approaches involves a certain degree of risk. You have to put aside the “proven” way of doing things and try on new or revive older ways of doing things. - [Synthesis: Seriously, Play!](https://leadershiplearning.org/synthesis-seriously-play/) - May 23, 2023 - Unpacked some of the benefits, privileges, responsibility, and rules of play with Belma Gonzalez and Vu Le. - [What We Are Learning about Liberatory Recruitment Part 3: Staff Reflection and Liberatory Hiring Checklist](https://leadershiplearning.org/what-we-are-learning-about-liberatory-recruitment-part-3-staff-reflection-and-liberatory-hiring-checklist/) - June 26, 2023 - Staff Reflections on liberatory Hiring, recruitment, and onboarding. Download Liberatory Hiring Checklist - [Shared Leadership Case Study: DataCenter](https://leadershiplearning.org/shared-leadership-case-study-datacenter/) - February 26, 2010 - The DataCenter's Shared Leadership model requires a spirit of reciprocity. It is a journey focused on delivering and fulfilling the mission, requiring a significant investment of time and a long-term commitment. - [Communications Strategies to Catalyze Networks](https://leadershiplearning.org/communications-strategies-to-catalyze-networks/) - August 31, 2012 - Leadership programs use communications strategies and social network analysis to provide a practical way of visualizing the connections that exist within cohorts. - [Blind Spots: The Role of Leadership Development Programs in Advancing Racial Equity](https://leadershiplearning.org/blind-spots-the-role-of-leadership-development-programs-in-advancing-racial-equity/) - February 28, 2018 - Learn about leadership characteristics being cultivated in leadership programs that help to reinforce white supremacist culture and what organization can do to advance racial equity - [Six Lessons for Cultivating Leadership of Color in the Community Organizing Movement](https://leadershiplearning.org/six-lessons-for-cultivating-leadership-of-color-in-the-community-organizing-movement/) - - Cultivatingleadership of color must include an effective approach for recognizing, attracting, and training new community organizers of color, then supporting them as they hone their skills to more advanced levels - [Collective Leadership in Action](https://leadershiplearning.org/collective-leadership/) - Collective Leadership - three lessons we've learned thus far: Grounding in equity, valuing what is most important, and making time for learning. - [What it takes to shift Power](https://leadershiplearning.org/what-it-takes-to-shift-power/) - June 19, 2019 - Accomplishing a shift in power is creating opportunities for people with less power or who are marginalized to have real power over the conditions that impact their lives. - [What We Are Learning From Our Work with Networks](https://leadershiplearning.org/what-we-are-learning-from-our-work-with-networks/) - June 28, 2019 - To progress in Networks, we must focus on three strategies: Support Self-Organizing, Focus on Place, and Create a Communications Ecosystem. - [What Does it Mean to Center Love?](https://leadershiplearning.org/what-does-it-mean-to-center-love/) - September 3, 2019 - There is an intersection between the work of centering love and the overarching pursuit of wholeness, one of the primary goals of justice and anti-oppressive work. - [Envisioning Change](https://leadershiplearning.org/envisioning-change/) - October 4, 2019 - Reflections from a conversation with a colleague where we discussed the tendency of folks in movement spaces to "eat our own." - [Centering Equity in Networks: Tools and Processes We Have Tried](https://leadershiplearning.org/centering-equity-in-networks-tools-and-processes-we-have-tried/) - November 1, 2019 - three practices to better distribute leadership and decision-making to create more equity in our networks. - [Lessons in Leadership from the Social Justice Labor Movement](https://leadershiplearning.org/lessons-in-leadership-from-the-social-justice-labor-movement/) - December 11, 2019 - 3 lessos from the Social Justice Labor Movement. Who leads is important. We need intentional strategies to support leadership. We need to support people in context to build power. - [Takeaways from Creating Space Conversations 2019](https://leadershiplearning.org/takeaways-from-creating-space-conversations-2019/) - January 8, 2020 - Creating Space builds opportunities for participants to learn with and from each other, to innovate collectively, and explore deeply. By incorporating a regional model, LLC hopes people will delve into learning in a local context. - [Talking about Liberation and Equity](https://leadershiplearning.org/talking-about-liberation-and-equity/) - February 12, 2020 - Equity is about redistribution that is proportional to those most impacted by harmful systems to make sure they get more. Equity is about staying in the system, and liberation is about dismantling the system and moving into a space that is really unclear. It will require that those who have been able to control the system will no longer be in that role. - [Pondering Liberatory Leadership Development](https://leadershiplearning.org/pondering-liberatory-leadership-development/) - By Ericka Stallings Throughout the Creating Space 2019/2020 multi-region conversation series, we’ve explored what it would take for our Leadership Development work to center equity and shift power for justice. In each conversation, at some point, we explored what a liberatory future could look like and how our work fighting for equity and justice could - Throughout the Creating Space 2019/2020 multi-region conversation series, we've explored what it would take for our Leadership Development work to center equity and shift power for justice. - [Leading with Collective Care](https://leadershiplearning.org/leading-with-collective-care/) - March 17, 2020 - We are seeing signs of a different collectivist response that goes beyond social distancing. People are showing up for their community, providing mutual aide - showing a collective care. - [Recklessly Reimagining Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/recklessly-reimagining-leadership/) - April 3, 2020 - Given the fundamental shake-up COVID-19 has done to the world, one of my amazing friend-colleagues, Stephanie Yazgi, has been encouraging folks to consider "reckless reimagination" as a way to think about what our work and world could be like. - [Responding to COVID-19: LLC's Next Steps](https://leadershiplearning.org/responding-to-covid-19-llcs-next-steps/) - April 21, 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic presents the leadership field with the challenge of both responding to the crisis in our communities while learning to operate in fundamentally different ways. - [LLC Community Conversation | Reimagining Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/llc-community-conversation-reimagining-leadership/) - June 9, 2020 - A community conversation to collectively explore how reimagining leadership development can advance liberation, equity, and justice, given the learnings and reflections from COVID-19 and the racial justice mobilizations. - [The Next 20 Years](https://leadershiplearning.org/the-next-20-years/) - October 6, 2020 - Over the next 20 years, as we continue to build a new narrative about leadership, that everyone has the ability to lead with others on racial and social justice, we are going to need to change old ways of delivering leadership development focused on individuals and think about how we move resources into communities so that everyone who wants to lead, can. - [Election "Day" Scenario Planning: Emerging Wisdom from The Field](https://leadershiplearning.org/election-day-scenario-planning-emerging-wisdom-from-the-field/) - October 7, 2020 - “How are you thinking about election scenario planning?”Developing Election Action Plans - Short term & Long term. Folks are planning for potential outcomes in the immediate days and weeks after Election Day. - [LLC's 2021 Vision](https://leadershiplearning.org/llcs-2021-vision/) - January 14, 2021 - LLC is re-centering our work on liberation, exploring what liberatory leadership looks like, and assessing how our work is helping to actualize our vision for liberation. In 2021, we will share models, tools, and innovations while convening the network to advance this work collectively. - [LLC's Co-ED Search: Centering Joyful Relationships](https://leadershiplearning.org/llcs-co-ed-search-centering-joyful-relationships/) - July 26, 2021 - LLC adopted the Co-ED model because we believe that distributing leadership more broadly has value and that this model allows us to more equitably invite people into leadership. - [Introducing Nikki Dinh - LLC's New Co-Executive Director!](https://leadershiplearning.org/introducing-nikki-dinh-llcs-new-co-executive-director/) - January 21, 2022 - Welcome our new co-executive director, and learn with us about the onboarding and hiring processes. - [Entering a co-directorship reflections](https://leadershiplearning.org/entering-a-co-directorship-reflections/) - February 15, 2022 - learn with us about how to enter a co-directorship relationship with grace, care and liberatory practices - [About Fiscal Sponsorships and Transfers](https://leadershiplearning.org/about-fiscal-sponsorships-and-transfers/) - May 22, 2022 - Use this interactive presentation to learn about Fiscal Sponsorships and Transfers. - [Liberatory Leadership Learning Series: When All Of Our Tools Are Weapons](https://leadershiplearning.org/when-all-of-our-tools-are-weapons/) - July 27, 2022 - As part of the Liberatory Leadership Partnership, we are exploring what supports and what gets in the way of living out these compelling visions and identifying promising practices that we can try on to right the balance. - [Liberatory Leadership Learning Series: How to Tend to Your People AND Your Organization When Staff Struggle](https://leadershiplearning.org/how-to-tend-to-your-people-and-your-organization-when-staff-struggle/) - August 31, 2022 - As part of the Liberatory Leadership Partnership, we are exploring what supports and what gets in the way of living out these compelling visions and identifying promising practices that we can try on to right the balance. - [Liberatory Leadership Learning Series: Three Lessons (so far) for Funding Liberatory Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/three-lessons-so-far-for-funding-liberatory-leadership/) - September 30, 2022 - As part of the Liberatory Leadership Partnership, we are exploring what supports and what gets in the way of living out these compelling visions and identifying promising practices that we can try on to right the balance. - [6 Reasons Why Liberatory Leaders Need to Take Play Seriously](https://leadershiplearning.org/6-reasons-why-liberatory-leaders-need-to-take-play-seriously/) - October 27, 2022 - Learn why as Liberatory Leader, you should take play seriously. As LLC began to use the concept of play, we realized that play, when grounded in collective purpose and steeped in values, can be a liberatory act. - [Our Learning Framework Journey Starts with Tending to a Garden in a Desert](https://leadershiplearning.org/our-learning-framework-journey-starts-with-tending-to-a-garden-in-a-desert/) - November 29, 2022 - For over a decade, LLC has focused on equity, and recently we have described our work as exploring what can exist beyond equity. Read our Learning Framework founded in Liberatory Leadership practices. - [LLC’s 2022 Year in Review](https://leadershiplearning.org/llcs-2022-year-in-review/) - December 15, 2022 - LLC is intentionally stopping to reflect on achievements, learning from our stumbles, and appreciating our community and ecosystem. 2022 was a time of great internal growth and focus. We were able to diversify our work while simultaneously centering care for our staff team. - [Nikki & Ericka’s Spell for Conscious Executive Director Relationship Building](https://leadershiplearning.org/nikki-erickas-spell-for-conscious-executive-director-relationship-building/) - August 8, 2026 - The Co-ED model is not a miracle cure for shared power. What I am describing is my experience, unique to me and LLC, and likely not immediately applicable to other organizations. - [Eight Google Workspace tips to bring some ease in 2023 + two tips from other apps we use every day](https://leadershiplearning.org/eight-google-workspace-tips-to-bring-some-ease-in-2023-two-tips-from-other-apps-we-use-every-day/) - February 23, 2023 - We are paying attention to technology like natural language processing tools driven by AI. If you do any work online, there are likely tools and platforms that already present tensions in our values and work. Therefore, it is essential to have conversations about the ethical usage of technology, awareness of our goals, how technology works, and who may be disproportionately impacted by it. What we do know is that more than ever we need to imagine the world we'd like to manifest. - [Introducing our Learning Framework: Part 2](https://leadershiplearning.org/introducing-our-learning-framework-part-2/) - March 28, 2023 - A learning framework is a guide, but even more importantly, the process of developing one serves as a tool in bringing stakeholders and teams together to clarify the vision and possibilities of our work. - [Synthesis: Recess, Play Affinity Group](https://leadershiplearning.org/recess-play-affinity-group/) - June 20, 2023 - A Space to be in Conversation with our Dreamiest Selves. Reflections on LLC’s Play Affinity Space - [Synthesis: Recapture Play!](https://leadershiplearning.org/recapture-play/) - June 6, 2023 - A Space to be in Conversation with our Dreamiest Selves. Reflections on LLC’s Play Affinity Space - [Field Trip: Improv Class](https://leadershiplearning.org/field-trip-improv-class/) - July 24, 2023 - In this interactive session, we had fun and recapture play. Here is my reflection on the importance of incorporating play into our lives. - [Oasis: LLC Culture](https://leadershiplearning.org/oasis-llc-culture/) - August 22, 2023 - The LLC staff came to the organization seeking refuge, a work environment divorced from the toxic, draining, and disempowering conditions persisting at our previous jobs. - [Why are we prioritizing rest, reflection, inner work, and growth?](https://leadershiplearning.org/why-are-we-prioritizing-rest-reflection-inner-work-and-growth/) - September 26, 2023 - Our intent with Flexible Fridays is to provide a small measure of the necessary healing, rest, and reflection for our communities and organizations focused on race equity, collective liberation, and leadership. - [Living Liberation Conference 2023](https://leadershiplearning.org/living-liberation-conference-2023/) - November 2, 2023 - Among the many conversations we’ll engage in at Living Liberation Conference 2023 on November 8 & 9, LLC will also walk through several concrete ways you can incorporate play into your work. - [Boo! What’s scary about shared and distributed leadership?](https://leadershiplearning.org/boo-whats-scary-about-shared-and-distributed-leadership/) - October 24, 2023 - Shared and distributed leadership are used to distribute agency and power throughout the organization. Here are six key takeaways from LLC's co-leadership model. - [Take your time arriving: LLC’s 2023 year in review.](https://leadershiplearning.org/take-your-time-arriving-llcs-2023-year-in-review/) - - Read our top 10 highlights of 2023 as we practiced liberatory leadership and just work in just ways. - ["All Good Things Must Begin” A Dispatch from our Liberatory Storytelling Fieldtrip](https://leadershiplearning.org/all-good-things-must-begin-a-dispatch-from-our-liberatory-storytelling-fieldtrip/) - - This October, we embarked on an immersive field trip with Dara Joyce Lurie, where we explored how storytelling fosters connections, supports creativity, and growth, and empowers us to share our stories. - [Exploring Liberatory Leadership: Director-Level Insights into the Journey of Distributed Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/director-level-distributed-leadership/) - - When we say distributed leadership, we mean there is more leadership throughout the organization in that other positions are activated to contribute to decision-making with agency and power - [Leading with Love: On The Culture of Care and Repair at LLC](https://leadershiplearning.org/leading-with-love/) - Leading with love as core to practicing liberatory leadership. Love is typically considered a peripheral notion with no place in our organizational cultures and conflicting perspectives on how much space it should occupy in our broader social movements. - [Leadership Transitions](https://leadershiplearning.org/leadership-transitions/) - Leadership transitions are aplenty in our movements right now. Many are shifting towards more audacious strategies to align with your deep-seated values of community, justice, healing, and care. - [Recap: Mending Series #1 Why Conflict Matters: A Grounding Conversation](https://leadershiplearning.org/whyconflictmatters/) - This session will explore the significance of learning to handle conflict generatively within movement work. We engaged in conversations exploring why mending is pivotal for the self and fostering sustainable progress and unity within our work towards liberation. - [Recap: Mending Session #2 Mending Practice Experimental Field Trip](https://leadershiplearning.org/recap-mending-session-2-mending-practice-experimental-field-trip/) - In this interactive virtual workshop, participants will delve into the history of Sashiko, explore inspiring examples of mending clothing, and engage in hands-on making. - [Recap: Mending Session #3 Intergenerational conflict, power, and liberatory ways forward, together.](https://leadershiplearning.org/mending-intergenerational-conflict/) - On April 17, 2024, we invited participants of many generations to join the LLC team in a dialogue to move beyond sweeping generational assumptions and explore the intricacies of intergenerational conflict in the social good sector. - [Recap: Mending Session #4 Mending via Policy: Reparations](https://leadershiplearning.org/mending-via-policy-reparations/) - On May 6, Leadership Learning Community hosted Mending Session #4: Mending via Policy, Reparations with Brittni Chicuata. It was healing to be conversing about the power we as community members hold and how to mend our relationship with policy. - [Recap: Mending Session #5 The Art of Repair: Harmony and Dissonance](https://leadershiplearning.org/meding-art-harmony-dissonance/) - The session offered an opportunity to engage with art as a way of soul-mending through a conversation with Mizan Alkebulan-Abakah, MPH, and Sizwe Andrews-Abakah, the co-creators of Spearitwurx. - [Meet me on the Desert: Gathering](https://leadershiplearning.org/liberatory-leadership-community/) - We gathered in Santa Fe as part of our in-person gathering of the Liberatory Leadership Community of Practice. Some of the conversations we’ve had include liberatory operations, rest, distributed leadership, generative conflict, trust and relationship building as core to healthy and dynamic leadership practices. - [Our Breath is Our First Home](https://leadershiplearning.org/our-breath-is-our-first-home/) - My support comes from breathing. It took serving as a caregiver, losing my mom, living through a global pandemic, and carrying the weight of collective grief for me to recognize that I needed to learn how to breathe. - [Mending the Fabric of Leadership: Navigating Conflict, Healing, and Liberation](https://leadershiplearning.org/mending-the-fabric-of-leadership/) - In 2024, LLC hosted a virtual series called Mending, in which we explored generative conflict, healing, and liberatory leadership. - [Reflection at the End of Black History Month 2021](https://leadershiplearning.org/reflection-at-the-end-of-black-history-month-2021/) - February 26, 2021 - As I reflect on these events and Black History Month, my mind comes to the challenges of Black leaders, especially Black womxn and the degree to which these leaders are, or are not, shown love. - [Leading through Leadership Transitions](https://leadershiplearning.org/leading-leadership-transitions/) - In June 2024, we had the opportunity to gather in Connecticut with nonprofit leaders participating in the Cricket Island Foundation leadership transition cohort - [The Leadership Skill No One Talks About](https://leadershiplearning.org/the-leadership-skill-no-one-talks-about/) - I realize that the same things that are true about leadership now were true then: I must act bravely, serve with awareness and integrity, and acknowledge opportunities to course correct along the way. - [Compassion has a Melting Point](https://leadershiplearning.org/compassion-has-a-melting-point/) - Now, I truly see others from a compassionate perspective and not an angry heart. Yet, above all, I see my lessons and my growth. - [The Healing Rhythm of Running](https://leadershiplearning.org/the-healing-rhythm-of-running/) - Long-distance running has become my sanctuary, a place where healing and joy amidst the complexities of life. - [Redefining Wealth in Service of Liberation](https://leadershiplearning.org/redefining-wealth-liberation/) - Saving, investing, and redistributing is a simple exercise that we each practice every day. We must redefine our relationship to wealth and liberation - [Notes from the Field: Resourcing Whole Communities](https://leadershiplearning.org/notes-from-the-field-resourcing-whole-communities/) - We joined the Whole Communities Project Partnership in 2024 alongside LeadersTrust and the Center for Third World Organizing to support awarded and unawarded practitioners and leaders from the Fund for Liberatory Practice and the Praxis Project. - [On the Joy of Relationship-Centered Collaboration](https://leadershiplearning.org/joy-relationship-centered-collaboration/) - The Leadership and Race 2024 publication deepened relationships and expanded our collaboration and understanding as we practiced new means of engaging with the complexities of racial justice work in joyous ways. - [The Leadership Challenge of Operationalizing Liberatory Practice](https://leadershiplearning.org/the-leadership-challenge-of-operationalizing-liberatory-practice/) - July 22, 2022 - In Liberatory Practices, liberation's definition is always evolving. We also know that it is different for everyone, but when we say liberation, we mean power, joy, and thriving for all people. ## Pages - [Home](https://leadershiplearning.org/) - We're inviting leaders from historically excluded communities like gender-expansive Black, Indigenous, immigrant, people of color, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities to live out the compelling vision of collective liberation - one that seeks power, joy, and thriving for all people. - [What We Do](https://leadershiplearning.org/what-we-do/) - Explore Leadership Learning Community's liberatory leadership approach. We offer play spaces, networks, communities of practice, and consulting services. - [Our Blog](https://leadershiplearning.org/our-blog/) - We regularly host, write about, and speak at convenings and webinars around liberatory leadership, equity, and networks. - [Learn With Us](https://leadershiplearning.org/learn-with-us/) - We regularly host, write about, and speak at convenings and webinars around liberatory leadership, equity, and networks. We also strive to amplify liberatory practitioners and historically excluded leadership and support their power-building strategies. - [Who We Are](https://leadershiplearning.org/who-we-are/) - At Leadership Learning Community, we strive to amplify liberatory practitioners and historically excluded leadership and support their power-building strategies. - [Engage With Us](https://leadershiplearning.org/engage-with-us/) - We look forward to connecting with you. Learn more about liberatory leadership and how we can work together. - [Events](https://leadershiplearning.org/events/) - Leadership Learning Community Events. Connect with us, lead, and participate in our virtual and in-person events. - [Publications & Resources](https://leadershiplearning.org/publications-reports/) - We host, write, and speak at convenings and webinars around liberatory leadership, equity, and networks. We also strive to amplify liberatory practitioners and historically excluded leadership and support their power-building strategies. - [The Leadership Cosmos: 25 Years of Expanding Possibilities](https://leadershiplearning.org/the-leadership-cosmos/) - The Leadership Cosmos: 25 Years of Expanding PossibilitiesIn an era of mounting challenges and transformation, how must leadership evolve to meet the urgency of our movements? We’re reflecting on Leadership Learning Community’s 25 years of learning, and holding the long arc of our movement and leadership work. Join us in conversation to expand our collective - [Connect](https://leadershiplearning.org/connect/) - We would love to hear from you. Contact us. - [Donate](https://leadershiplearning.org/donate/) - Leadership is the site of transformation—and your support makes it possible. At Leadership Learning Community (LLC), we believe that when leadership is liberatory, collective, and community-rooted, it becomes a powerful force for systemic change. All your contributions allow us to remain a learning lab, where we get to play and experiment with new models of - [Our Learning Framework](https://leadershiplearning.org/about-llc/) - Leadership Learning makes space for convening, play, and practice outside of the dominant cultural structures and systems. - [Privacy Policy](https://leadershiplearning.org/privacy-policy/) - LLC Privacy Policy Updated on 2/26/2025 Thank you for visiting this website (“Site”) for Leadership Learning Community]. Your privacy is very important to us. This document informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information we receive from users of this Site. Leadership Learning Community is a fiscally sponsored project - [Liberatory Consultants](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant-directory/) - Leadership Learning makes space for convening, play, and practice outside of the dominant cultural structures and systems. ## Publications - [Wisdom on Change Library](https://leadershiplearning.org/publications/leadership-transitions-wisdom-of-change/) - These are resources on leadership and organizational transitions compiled by Leadership Learning Community. - [Liberatory Leadership Framework](https://leadershiplearning.org/publications/liberatory-leadership-framework/) - The Liberatory Leadership Framework guides and supports leaders and organizations in applying liberatory leadership. We hope to inspire, inform, and equip you with perspective, practices (or strategies), and tools to lead in just and joyous ways. We hope this framework serves as a mirror and springboard for your most liberatory visions and possibilities. - [Leadership & Race: A Call to Each Other, Exploration of the Current Racial Justice Landscape and Recommendations for Action](https://leadershiplearning.org/publications/leadership-race-a-call-to-each-other/) - Authors: Ericka Stallings, Leadership Learning Community Iman Mills Gordon, Leadership Learning Community Advisory Group: Elissa Sloan Perry, Change Elemental Frances Kunreuther, Building Movement Project Monica Dennis, Co-lab Collective Sean Thomas-Breitfeld, Building Movement Project Trish Adobea Tchume, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Date Published:October 2024 Download PDFDigital VersionMedia Kit Leadership & Race: A Call to Each Other, - [Hewlett Foundation Education Cohort on Leadership Transitions](https://leadershiplearning.org/publications/hewlett-foundation-education-cohort-on-leadership-transitions/) - Explore leadership transitions challenges, resources, and opportunities. - [Love Work: Liberatory Leadership in Practice](https://leadershiplearning.org/publications/love-work-liberatory-leadership/) - Love Work: Liberatory Leadership in Practice is a transformative exploration of leadership that centers on justice, equity, and collective liberation. - [2022 Race Equity Toolkit](https://leadershiplearning.org/publications/race-equity-toolkit/) - LLC engaged our extensive network to generate content for a tool to support practice leaders in establishing comprehensive leadership development programs that contribute to racial equity. - [HOME is Where the LOVE is](https://leadershiplearning.org/publications/home-is-where-the-love-is/) - HOME is where the LOVE is, a magazine for people firmly entrenched in their quest for liberation and adamant about bringing their formations and communities along. - [Leadership & Race: How to Develop and Support Leadership that Contributes to Racial Justice](https://leadershiplearning.org/publications/leadership-race/) - July 1, 2010 This publication explores how our current thinking about leadership often contributes to producing and maintaining racialized dynamics and identifies a set of core competencies associated with racial justice leadership. - [Leadership & Collective Impact: A Guide For Strengthening the Impact of Your Leadership Development Work](https://leadershiplearning.org/publications/leadership-collective-impact/) - August 8, 2026 We need a new way of working together and a new kind of leadership to transcend hierarchical belief systems to bring about a change in how we treat each other as well as our greater global communities and ecosystems. - [Leading Culture and Systems Change: How to Develop Network Leadership and Support Emerging Networks](https://leadershiplearning.org/publications/leading-culture-and-systems-change-how-to-develop-network-leadership-and-support-emerging-networks/) - October 1, 2017 - Examines why people and organizations working on complex systemic problems (like climate change and structural racism) use network approaches to make more progress. - [Leadership & Large Scale Change](https://leadershiplearning.org/publications/leadership-large-scale-change/) - June 1, 2015 - This report was funded to answer what evaluation approaches are being used or developed to successfully measure and document the impact of leadership development that results in large-scale change. - [Leadership & Networks: New Ways of Developing Leadership in a Highly Connected World](https://leadershiplearning.org/publications/leadership-networks-new-ways-of-developing-leadership-in-a-highly-connected-world/) - October 1, 2012 - This publication shares many examples of how leaders using network strategies are increasing the impact of social change work. ## Webinars - [The How is the What: Relational Practices for Thriving Networks](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/the-how-is-the-what-relational-practices-for-thriving-networks/) - Learn to lead thriving networks that build culture and impact. This interactive session grounds participants in relational practices, storytelling, and play to show how "the how is the what" in collaborative work - [Liberatory Decision Making / Práctica de Toma de Decisiones Libertadora](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/liberatory-decision-making/) - Join Ananda Valenzuela for a session dedicated to the practice of Liberatory Decision-Making. Together, we will explore the Advice Process, a practical framework that identifies decision-makers, seeks meaningful input, uses a strategic lens to assess options, and moves toward action. - [Exploring Power Dynamics & Principled Accountability](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/exploring-power-dynamics-principled-accountability/) - Exploring Power Dynamics & Principled Accountability You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. Unblock content Accept required service and unblock content More Information This session is hosted by Ananda Valenzuela, in partnership with - [Wisdom on Change](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/wisdon-on-change-leadership-transitions/) - A webinar on the anatomy of leadership transitions, insights on the questions we receive most often, and strategies on managing these shifts with your values intact. We’ll share our own journey as well as the collective wisdom we’ve gathered through supporting organizations through change. - [Beyond the Algorithm: Tech, Liberation, and the Human-Centered Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/beyond-the-algorithm-ai-tech-liberation/) - A critical discussion on the intersection of AI, race equity, and liberatory leadership. We'll explore how AI tools, while increasingly prevalent, often provide responses that are harmful or fail to capture the nuanced experiences of BIPOC leaders. - [From Isolation to Liberation: Cultivating Constellations of Care](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/from-isolation-to-liberation-cultivating-constellations-of-care/) - In this conversation, we will explore ways to honor our collective humanity by adopting practices and mindsets that support collaborative action, care, and liberation. - [Centering Joy and Love in Times of Crisis](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/centering-joy-and-love-in-times-of-crisis/) - Joy and love are not just emotions but essential leadership tools that sustain movements, build resilience, and create cultures of belonging and care. They are also at the core of liberatory leadership. The essence of what differentiates liberatory leadership from traditionally oppressive systems. - [Practicing Giving and Receiving Feedback](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/practicing-giving-and-receiving-feedback/) - This is an interactive session where participants understand effective approaches to giving and receiving feedback, and access hands-on feedback tools to bring back to the workplace - [More Than a Phase Webinar | Social Insights x LLC](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/more-than-a-phase-webinar-social-insights-x-llc/) - A panel discussion facilitated by Social Insights, featuring organizational leaders who are navigating today’s turbulent social and political climate with commitment, vision, and resilience. This discussion was a reminder that our presence and what we value and care about are not temporary. - [Mending Session 5 | The Art of Repair: Harmony & Dissonance](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/mending-the-art-of-repair-harmony-dissonance/) - Leadership Learning Community, along with Mizan Alkebulan-Abakah, MPH, and Sizwe Andrews-Abakah, who are the co-founders and directors of SPEARITWURX, held a discussion on Tuesday, May 14, about conflict and mending through the lens of art. - [Mending Session 4 | Mending via Policy: Reparations](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/mending-via-policy-reparations/) - Join LLC and Brittni Chicuata in a conversation about reparations to explore how we navigate the journey toward mending in policy and community. Through candid discussions, we'll delve into the heart of mending relationships, reimagining possibilities, and revitalizing faith in collective action. - [Mending Session 3 | Intergenerational conflict, power, and liberatory ways forward, together.](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/mending-session-3-intergenerational-conflict/) - In this session, we invite participants of all generations (18 and older) to join the LLC team in a dialogue to move beyond sweeping generational assumptions and explore the intricacies of intergenerational conflict in the social good sector. - [Mending Session 2 | Mending Practice Experimental Field Trip](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/mending-session-2-mending-practice-experimental-field-trip/) - In this interactive virtual workshop, participants will delve into the history of Sashiko, explore inspiring examples of mended clothing, and engage in hands-on making. - [Mending Session 1 | Why Conflict Matters: A Grounding Conversation](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/whyconflictmatters/) - This session explored the significance of generative conflict within movement work. We engaged in conversations exploring why mending is pivotal for the self and fostering sustainable progress and unity within our work toward liberation. - [Play as a Liberatory Practice](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/play-as-a-liberatory-practice/) - - When we reintroduce play into our professional lives, we not only reclaim moments of creativity and rest but also infuse our work with innovation and discover new avenues to freedom. - [Shared Leadership: The Co-Directorship Model](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/shared-leadership-the-co-directorship-model/) - September 21, 2017 - As the need to recognize leadership as a process and collective endeavor expands, we must question how the current, dominant cultural paradigm of heroic leadership has permeated organizational life and leadership. - [Session 1 | What Does Liberatory Leadership Mean?](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/session-1-what-does-liberatory-leadership-mean/) - June 9, 2021 - Our first session with Monica Dennis of Move to End Violence and Elissa Sloan Perry of Change Elemental gave us a common framework for what Liberatory Leadership is. Liberatory approaches require us to negotiate power, relationships, the body, history, culture and narrative. - [Session 2 | Liberatory Leadership in Practice: Transformative Leadership Programs](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/session-2-liberatory-leadership-in-practice-transformative-leadership-programs/) - June 16, 2021 - The second session with Denise Perry of BOLD and Neha Mahajan of Transformative Leadership for Change mapped out how transformative leadership programs prepare leaders to carry these practices into their orgs and into the field. - [Session 3 | Liberatory Leadership in Practice: Transformative Organizations](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/session-3-liberatory-leadership-in-practice-transformative-organizations/) - June 23, 2021 - The third session with Ananda Valenzuela of RVC and Nikki Dinh of Common Counsel Foundation discussed our organizations and how they need to evolve to create the conditions for liberatory leadership and the tools and organizational change processes that support this transformation. - [Session 4 | Resourcing Liberatory Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/session-4-resourcing-liberatory-leadership/) - July 7, 2021 - Resourcing Liberatory Leadership discussed power, access and accountability as well as risk assessment, absorption and distribution. - [Session 5 | Studying Liberatory Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/studying-liberatory-leadership-3-lorem/) - July 14, 2021 - The discussion touched on how to practice research in a way that advances liberatory leadership and how to hold oneself accountable to this vision. - [Important Lessons for Cultivating Leadership of Color in Community Organizing](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/important-lessons-for-cultivating-leadership-of-color-in-community-organizing/) - August 22, 2018 - Learn from mistakes, intentional selection, working on real problems, putting in the time it takes, compensation, and what it means to reclaim leadership. - [A Conversation with Mujeres Unidas y Activas: Shifting Power from the Inside Out](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/a-conversation-with-mujeres-unidas-y-activas-shifting-power-from-the-inside-out/) - June 20, 2019 - Mujeres Unidads y Activas’s innovative leadership development model trains members to plan and implement their programs and campaigns at all levels. - [LeaderSpring in Reset: Rethinking Leadership and Risk Taking](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/leaderspring-in-reset-rethinking-leadership-and-risk-taking/) - May 16, 2018 - Leadership is evolving. To keep pace, those supporting leadership for racial equity and social justice must pause, reflect and reconsider our approaches to leadership development. - [Network Structures: Innovative Governance and Decision-Making](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/network-structures-innovative-governance-and-decision-making/) - November 2, 2017 - Networks structures are experimenting with and co-creating innovative, self-organizing, and encouraging network governance and structures. - [Everyday Equity: Practices, Principles, and Perspectives](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/llc-webinar-series-everyday-equity-practices-principles-and-perspectives/) - August 14, 2019 - Everyday Equity is a realization of and a path from power, love, and justice. In leadership practice, we consciously and unknowingly embed and enact principles and practices that embody and resist community well-being. - [Tools for Network Mapping: How SNA maps can transform your work.](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/tools-for-network-mapping-how-sna-maps-can-transform-your-work/) - July 25, 2017 - Social Network Analyses are often used to measure the progress of networks. Through the maps, you’re able to track how relationships propel the work, how to catalyze energy, snd harvest learning. - [Network Strategies in COVID-19 Responses](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/network-strategies-in-covid-19-responses/) - April 10, 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic presents the leadership field with the challenge of responding to the crisis in our communities while learning to operate in fundamentally different ways. - [Self-Organizing in Networks: Why and How?](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/self-organizing-in-networks-why-and-how/) - October 19, 2020 - Come hear about using Network Activation Funds and Facilitator Pools to help activate your network. - [Liberatory Leadership Webinar | Distributed Leadership at LLC: What's Working and What's Hard](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/liberatory-leadership-webinar-distributed-leadership-at-llc-whats-working-and-whats-hard/) - December 14, 2020 - LLC has experimented with distributed leadership at the staff and Board levels, incorporating Co-Director and Co-Chair models - [Session 1 | Liberatory Leadership Playground](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/liberatory-leadership-playground-series-seriously-play/) - May 23, 2023 - We hosted a virtual session called “Seriously, Play” with guests Belma Gonzalez and Vu Le. In this conversation, we unpacked some of the benefits but also privileges, responsibilities, and rules of play. - [Session 2 | Liberatory Leadership Playground](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/session-2-liberatory-leadership-playground/) - June 6, 2023 - We hosted a virtual session called “Recapture Play” with Ericka Stallings and Nikki Dinh with a call to action in mind: recapture play in your workplace. - [Confronting Wicked Problems: 5 Strategies for Reimagined Leadership in the Social Sector](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/confronting-wicked-problems-5-strategies-for-reimagined-leadership-in-the-social-sector/) - July 23, 2019 - In this webinar, Lynn Fick-Cooper, Managing Director of Societal Advancement at the Center for Creative Leadership, will share the five critical leadership strategies CCL has learned. - [Scaffolding for System Shifting Networks](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/scaffolding-for-system-shifting-networks/) - November 4, 2019 - Networks come in all shapes and sizes. However, if you want to be a system-shifting network, you will need to put in place scaffolding so that transformation can emerge easily and quickly. - [Exploring Distributed Leadership with RVC Seattle](https://leadershiplearning.org/webinars/exploring-distributed-leadership-with-rvc-seattle/) - September 16, 2020 - Ananda will share some of the innovative approaches RVC is utilizing to redistribute power within their organization and the work they are doing to expand leadership. ## Consultants - [Lawrence
Barriner II](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant/lawrence-barriner-ii/) - PronounsHe/him LocationBoston, MA OrganizationLqb2 & co Rockwood Leadership Institute Websitelqb2.co Twitter & Instagram@lqb2 Demographic Composition of LeadershipMe and my part-time operations manager are both black LanguagesEnglish Skills, Expertise, and Areas of PracticeRacial Equity / DEIB, Coaching, Conflict Resolution / Mediation / Transformation, Organizational Development, Personal Resilience / Wellness / Self Care / Mindfulness, Liberation / - [Ari
Sahagún](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant/arisahagun/) - PronounsShe/they LocationMexico City, MX Websitearisahagun.org Twitter & Instagramhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/arisahagun/ Demographic Composition of LeadershipI’m independent. LanguagesEnglish/ Spanish Skills, Expertise, and Areas of PracticeRacial Equity / DEIB, Coaching, Network Mapping, Network Strategy, Network Weaving. ApproachesConsulting: Long-Term, Consulting: Short-Term / Project-Based, Coaching, Training / Workshops. Key Values/PillarsCollectively building just alternatives to crumbling systems of oppression, connecting personal and systemic - [Gail
Watts](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant/gailwatts/) - PronounsAny pronouns LocationHayward, CA OrganizationTribesy Consulting Websitehttps://tribesy.net/ Twitter & Instagram@Tribesy_21 Demographic Composition of LeadershipGeneral partnership – 50% BIPOC, 50% White. LanguagesEnglish Skills, Expertise, and Areas of PracticeEvaluation and Learning, Racial Equity / DEIB, Strategy Development / Strategic Planning, Coaching, Executive Transitions / Succession Planning, Fund Development Strategy / Donor Engagement Projects, Governance, Conflict Resolution / - [LaShonda
Taylor](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant/lashondataylor/) - PronounsShe/her/ella LocationRemote OrganizationStrong Minds Consulting Firm Websitehttps://www.strongmindsconsultingfirm.com Demographic Composition of LeadershipBlack-Led LanguagesEnglish w/Bi-lingual support in Spanish Skills, Expertise, and Areas of PracticeEvaluation and Learning, Racial Equity / DEIB, Strategy Development / Strategic Planning, Coaching, Executive Transitions / Succession Planning, Fund Development Strategy / Donor Engagement Projects, Governance, Conflict Resolution / Mediation / Transformation, Embodied Leadership - [Susan
Misra](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant/susanmisra/) - PronounsShe/her LocationNew York, NY, Los Angeles, CA Organization Aurora Commons Websitehttps://www.auroracommons.com/ Demographic Composition of LeadershipQueer BIPOC LanguagesEnglish Skills, Expertise, and Areas of PracticeEvaluation and Learning, Racial Equity / DEIB, Strategy Development / Strategic Planning, Coaching, Executive Transitions / Succession Planning, Governance, Embodied Leadership Practice, Change Management Processes, Organizational Development, Liberation / Liberatory Leadership, Shared leadership, - [Ana
Polanco](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant/anapolanco/) - PronounsShe/her/ella LocationNew York, NY, US Remote OrganizationAna Polanco Coaching Websiteanapolanco.org Twitter & Instagram@coach.ana Demographic Composition of LeadershipAfro- indigena or afro-latina LanguagesEnglish/ Spanish Skills, Expertise, and Areas of PracticeTransformational Leadership Coaching, Somatic Practices, Organizational Development, Narrative and Cultural Organizing, Liberation / Liberatory Leadership, Healing, Team Development, Family and Systems Constellations. ApproachesCoaching, Facilitation, Strategy, Interventions, Training / - [Cherice
Hopkins](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant/chericehopkins/) - PronounsShe/her LocationAlexandria, VA OrganizationIn Harmony, LLC Websiteinharmony-llc.com Twitter & Instagramhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/chericehopkins/ Demographic Composition of LeadershipBlack woman LanguagesEnglish Skills, Expertise, and Areas of PracticeRacial Equity / DEIB, Coaching, Liberation / Liberatory Leadership, trauma-informed workplace, program development, policy review/development with DEIB lens. ApproachesAssessment / Tools, Consulting: Long-Term, Consulting: Short-Term / Project-Based, Coaching, Facilitation, Training / Workshops. Key Values/PillarsIn - [Ada
Palotai](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant/adapalotai/) - PronounsShe/They LocationOakland, CA OrganizationStarLion Collective Websitewww.starlioncollective.com Twitter & Instagram Demographic Composition of LeadershipSLC is an all-women-of-color non-hierarchical team, with current members identifying with the lived experiences and cultures of the peoples of the Asian diaspora. Multiple members of our team identify as mixed race and queer, and all members of our team identify with immigrant - [Ananda
Valenzuela](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant/ananda-valenzuela/) - PronounsAny pronouns LocationSeattle, WA OrganizationAnanda Valenzuela LLC Websiteanandavalenzuela.org LanguagesEnglish/Spanish Skills, Expertise, and Areas of PracticeCoaching, Executive Transitions / Succession Planning, Governance, Change Management Processes, Organizational Development, Liberation / Liberatory Leadership ApproachesAssessment / Tools, Consulting: Long-Term, Consulting: Short-Term / Project-Based, Coaching, Facilitation, Training / Workshops Key Values/PillarsMy core values are integrity, equity, community, learning, and joy. - [Audrey
Jordan](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant/audrey-jordan/) - PronounsShe/herLocationFontana, CA OrganizationADJ Consulting & Coaching LanguagesEnglish Skills, Expertise, and Areas of PracticeEvaluation and Learning, Racial Equity / DEIB, Strategy Development / Strategic Planning, Coaching, Embodied Leadership Practice, Organizational Development ApproachesAssessment / Tools, Consulting: Short-Term / Project-Based, Coaching, Facilitation, Training / Workshops Key Values/PillarsCommunity practice centering those most impacted by racism, with a race equity - [Catherine
Labiran](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant/catherinelabiran/) - PronounsShe/her LocationNew York, NY OrganizationCatherine Bisola Labiran Consulting Websitehttps://www.catherinelabiran.com/ Twitter & Instagramhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinelabiran/ LanguagesEnglish Skills, Expertise, and Areas of PracticeEvaluation and Learning, Racial Equity / DEIB, Strategy Development / Strategic Planning, Coaching, Conflict Resolution / Mediation / Transformation, Embodied Leadership Practice, Personal Resilience / Wellness / Self Care / Mindfulness, Narrative and cultural organizing, Liberation / - [Deborah
Meehan](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant/deborahmeehan/) - PronounsShe/her LocationOakland, CA OrganizationDeborah Meehan Consulting Websitehttps://www.dmeehanconsulting.com/ Twitter & Instagram@deborahmmeehan LanguagesEnglish Skills, Expertise, and Areas of PracticeEvaluation and Learning, Network Development, Leadership Development, Research, Writing. ApproachesAssessment / Tools, Consulting: Long-Term, Consulting: Short-Term / Project-Based, Training / Workshops. Key Values/PillarsI believe strongly in embodying now the values of the just and equitable world we are trying - [Bess
Bendet](https://leadershiplearning.org/consultant/bessbendet/) - PronounsShe/her LocationSan Fransisco, CA Websitehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bess-bendet/ LanguagesEnglish Skills, Expertise, and Areas of PracticeRacial Equity / DEIB, Strategy Development / Strategic Planning, Coaching, Executive Transitions / Succession Planning, Organizational Development, Personal Resilience / Wellness / Self Care / Mindfulness. ApproachesConsulting: Long-Term, Consulting: Short-Term / Project-Based, Coaching, Facilitation. Key Values/Pillars I value (and do my best to apply ## Categories - [Liberatory Hiring](https://leadershiplearning.org/category/liberatory-hiring/) - [Liberatory Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/category/liberatory-leadership/) - [Distributed Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/category/distributed-leadership/) - [Race Equity](https://leadershiplearning.org/category/race-equity/) - [Networks](https://leadershiplearning.org/category/networks/) - [Mending](https://leadershiplearning.org/category/mending/) - [Other](https://leadershiplearning.org/category/other/) ## Tags - [Liberatory Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/tag/liberatory-leadership/) - [Distributed Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/tag/distributed-leadership/) - [Liberatory Hiring](https://leadershiplearning.org/tag/liberatory-hiring/) - [Networks](https://leadershiplearning.org/tag/networks/) - [Building Strategic Alignment to Value](https://leadershiplearning.org/tag/building-strategic/) - [Leadership Development](https://leadershiplearning.org/tag/leadership-development/) - [Liberatory Operations](https://leadershiplearning.org/tag/liberatory-operations/) - [Facilitation](https://leadershiplearning.org/tag/facilitation/) - [Play](https://leadershiplearning.org/tag/play/) - [Mending](https://leadershiplearning.org/tag/mending/) - [Leadership Transitions](https://leadershiplearning.org/tag/leadership-transitions/) ## Categories Publications - [Key Resources](https://leadershiplearning.org/category_publications/key-resources/) - [Networks](https://leadershiplearning.org/category_publications/networks/) ## Categories Webinars - [Networks](https://leadershiplearning.org/categories_webinars/networks/) - [Liberatory Practices](https://leadershiplearning.org/categories_webinars/liberatory-practices/) - [Liberatory Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/categories_webinars/liberatory-leadership/) - [Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/categories_webinars/leadership/) - [Distributed Leadership](https://leadershiplearning.org/categories_webinars/distributed-leadership/) ## locations consultants - [Boston | MA](https://leadershiplearning.org/location_consultants/boston-ma/) - [Fontana | CA](https://leadershiplearning.org/location_consultants/fontana-ca/) - [Oakland | CA](https://leadershiplearning.org/location_consultants/oakland-ca/) - [New York | NY](https://leadershiplearning.org/location_consultants/new-york-ny/) - [Mexico City | MX](https://leadershiplearning.org/location_consultants/mexico-city-mx/) - [San Fransisco | CA](https://leadershiplearning.org/location_consultants/san-fransisco-ca/) - [Alexandria | VA](https://leadershiplearning.org/location_consultants/alexandria-va/) - [Hayward | CA](https://leadershiplearning.org/location_consultants/hayward-ca/) - [Remote](https://leadershiplearning.org/location_consultants/remote/) - [Los Angeles | CA](https://leadershiplearning.org/location_consultants/los-angeles-ca/) - [Seattle | WA](https://leadershiplearning.org/location_consultants/seattle-wa/)