Embracing Collective Leadership

Virtual Workshop | June 3, 2025 

1:00 - 4:30 PM ET 

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About the workshop

Are you a nonprofit leader or board director whose organization is facing a rapidly changing landscape of increasing service demands, limited funding and increased complexity? Are you being more frequently invited to join multi-sector collaborations and/or policy networks to address issues linked to your core mission?

Too often leaders attempt to navigate today’s context using legacy knowledge and approaches that are ill-suited for our current realities. This is further complicated by the prevailing assumption that a transition to more collective forms of leadership and stewardship will be spontaneous and simple, which is rarely the case.

This workshop will explore the paradigm shift needed to embrace collective leadership, offering tools and resources that can help leaders effectively unpack, analyze and challenge assumptions about how leadership and governance operate in modern nonprofit organizations. Grounded in the lived experience of senior leaders in the sector, it will also explore how to best integrate collective leadership practices into the work of the board, senior leaders, and line managers.

Join Daren Okafo, Tamarack’s Consulting Director of Collective Leadership for this virtual 3.5-hour workshop that will guide you and fellow changemakers to embrace collective leadership practices.

Workshop Pre-Learning

A 1-hour individual pre-learning exercise is designed to clarify your learning goals and identify the questions you hope to explore. 

3.5 Hour Virtual Workshops

Explore the foundational principles of collaborative leadership in nonprofit organizations, the characteristics of effective shared leadership, and apply some CL tools to assess where you are on the pathway to collective leadership.

Learn how you can build on the leadership skills you already have and examine several collaborative approaches that leaders can use to best achieve their desired impact alongside other leaders, board members and organizational managers.

1-Hour Coaching Session

A one-hour coaching session with fellow learners one month after the virtual workshop to further deepen and support your efforts to translate your learning into action.

This Learning Opportunity Is Designed Specifically For:

  • Organizational and collaborative leaders currently exploring or looking at transitioning to a collective leadership approach

  • Board directors who are eager to understand and support organizational senior leaders exploring collective approaches to leadership

  • Community leaders eager to grow their capacity to generate greater impact at both the community and systems levels

Want to learn more about collective leadership?

If you want to deepen your understanding of Collective Leadership and how it applies to collaborative efforts and systems change, take a look at Making Sense of the Multiple Faces of Leadership by Liz Weaver.

meet the workshop facilitator

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Daren Okafo

Daren leads Tamarack's Collective Leadership work, leveraging over 25 years of experience in community-based development in Canada, Europe and Africa. He's passionate about how communities envision and co-create just and equitable futures together, and the ways in which leaders come together to learn and grow.

pricing & logistics

Registration for this session is now open and limited to 70 learners to ensure a dynamic learning experience. Registration includes pre-workshop learning, a 3-hour virtual workshop, and a one-hour small group coaching session with participants. It also includes membership in the Tamarack Institutes Learning community. 

Zoom meeting details will be sent in advance. All participants will have access to a workshop resource page with slides, virtual workspaces, and all linked resources. 

Post-workshop, participants will be invited to register for a post-event coaching session. At this interactive session, small groups of workshop participants will be encouraged to share their emerging questions and receive further support in translating the workshop’s learning into action. 

Can’t attend the workshop, but love the content? Get in touch with Stephanie to learn more about how you can bring a custom version of this workshop to your organization or collaborative 

Single registration

$275

 

 

 

group registration

$225

We recommend attending with a colleague. Learn together to accelerate your impact!

tamarack member

$225

All members of our Ending Poverty, Building Belonging, Youth Futures & Climate Transtitions networks are eligible for the group discount.

The Paul Born Be A Light Scholarship Fund

We want everyone to learn how to improve their community! To ensure this, Tamarack supports low-income learners through the Paul Born Be a Light Fund.

Please fill out this form if you would like to apply for a scholarship. You can also learn how you can donate to the Paul Born Be A Light Fund and get a charitable receipt. Reach out to Stephanie if you have any questions or concerns.