Exploring Power Dynamics & Principled Accountability
This session is hosted by Ananda Valenzuela, in partnership with Resilience Initiative and Leadership Learning Community.
Ananda Valenzuela (any pronouns) provides interim executive director leadership, facilitates organizational transformation, and coaches values-aligned leaders. He is passionate about nourishing joyful organizational cultures, supporting equitable self-management, and building liberatory practices. They have served as interim executive director at multiple organizations, provided capacity-building support to nonprofits for over ten years, and currently sit on the boards of Change Elemental and Hampshire College. Ananda grew up in Puerto Rico and slowly made her way across the United States, holding a variety of consulting, governance, and activist roles along the way.
Learning Outcomes
- Unpack assumptions about how power and decision-making need to be held in organizations.
- Understand what it looks like to move from power-over to power-with in the workplace.
- Learn how to build a high-integrity workplace by developing effective accountability agreements
Supporting Materials
- The Liberatory World We Want to Create: Loving Accountability and the Limitations of Cancel Culture
- El mundo liberador que deseamos crear: La rendición de cuentas amorosa y las limitaciones de la cultura de la cancelación
- Trading Glass Ceilings for Glass Cliffs
- Sources of Power
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows