What We Do
Consulting and Partnership
Work with us. We recognize that your organization has unique needs and goals. As consultants, we strive to be in collaborative partnerships with you. Our consulting services include the facilitation of leadership circles and meetings, strategic planning, creative and engaging convenings, thought partnership, research, project management, and grantmaking.
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Liberatory Leadership
Leadership Learning Community’s facilitation methodology is rooted in Liberatory Leadership and network weaving principles including building connection across diverse stakeholders, valuing emergence while steadfast towards collective goals, and leading with love and possibilities as we navigate process and rigor.
We bring together practitioners putting liberatory leadership into practice, in their own organizations, in their own movements. It’s an ongoing space to learn together, share what’s working, and work through the hard parts in community, so none of us are doing this alone.
Love Work: Liberatory Leadership in Practice came out of our last Community of Practice, ten months with eight leaders in racial and reproductive justice. It’s a look at leading with care and rest instead of hierarchy and extraction.
We host Affinity Groups. These are spaces for leaders to connect, share learning, and engage in collective healing. Together, we explore how the leadership development field can be a vehicle for transformation and how Leadership Learning Community can serve as a place of rejuvenation and support.
Invite us into your next convening. We participate in panels, discussions, and workshops on liberatory leadership, network building, and leading through change.
Recent Speaking Engagements:
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
- Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP)
- Movement Momentum Collaborative
- Resilience Initiative
- Cricket Island Foundation Leadership Transition Fund
- Blue Shield of California Foundation
- Latino Community Foundation
Playground Spaces
At Leadership Learning Community, we believe leadership is a site of transformation, and recapturing play is a liberatory practice towards a joyful new horizon. Based on decades of research on leadership, we offer a variety of free public opportunities for leaders to connect with each other, learn, and practice.
The BIPOC Affinity Group is for people invested in leadership and leadership development who identify as Black, Indigenous or a person of color. This space is for BIPOC leaders, not about BIPOC leaders. It is a self-organized and emergent learning community and a practice of collective care. We convene this group on the last Tuesday of every month. Sign-up for our newsletter for reminders and registration links.
We create space to deepen learnings about Liberatory Leadership Development. The CoP will help us answer the question “What is liberatory leadership development?” Additionally, the CoP will 1. Develop Relationships & Build Community, 2. Compile a body of shareable and applicable tools and resources and 3. Generate knowledge for the field.
We will launch our inaugural cohort in 2023.
A pilot learning community for folx holding organizational operations in the social good sector. This is a space for participants to share knowledge, peer support, and to try things on together with a shared goal of doing just work in just ways.
Stay tuned for more information in early 2023
LLC regularly convenes executive directors and social good leadership in learning circles that encourage awareness, liberatory practices, collective learnings, and collaborative action. Please connect with us if you have an interest in learning more, creating a circle, or joining one.
2024 gathering of liberatory practitioners and leaders to practice and play for the purpose of sharing learning on how to operationalize liberatory visions as researchers, field-building consultants, and staff of organizations and foundations.
Leadership transitions are a time of challenge and opportunity for organizations. Transitions include recruiting incoming leaders, offboarding prior leadership (including interim EDs), onboarding new leadership and integrating board and staff. The process is often more robust than leaders, staff and board are aware of, and requires significant investment of resources and attention. When successful, there are cultural, equity, emotional, interpersonal, financial, operational and reputational opportunities to be enjoyed.
At Leadership Learning Community, we have been hosting learning communities to work through transitions. If you’re interested in our learnings or our offerings, please connect with us.
We work with philanthropy, intermediaries, affinity groups and movement leaders to explore and learn about Liberatory Leadership and Liberatory Practices.
Follow Our Lovings and Learnings
Our work invites leaders, including those from historically excluded communities, to hold space for convening, play, practice, research, and learnings outside of the dominant culture structures and systems.
We work with social good leaders, philanthropy, and organizations to expand on liberatory leadership and love work. It is a journey. It is work with a long arc.
We practice liberatory leadership by creating space for experimentation, collaboration, and incubation.
Liberatory Leadership
"Liberatory leadership means taking responsibility for collectively transforming our freedom dreams into reality by freeing ourselves from oppressive and limiting self-beliefs and harmful interpersonal practices, as well as divesting from and changing systems of harm that rely on domination and extraction"
Liberatory Leadership Framework