Embracing Collective Leadership

Changemakers

Virtual Workshop Hours

Coaching Call

About the workshop

Are you a nonprofit leader or board member trying to keep up with growing demands, tight budgets, and increasingly complex challenges? Are you being asked more often to work with others across sectors or take part in policy networks to tackle issues tied to your organization’s mission?

Many leaders try to meet today’s challenges with old ways of thinking and working—approaches that no longer fit the world we’re in. It gets even harder when people assume that shifting to shared or collective leadership will just happen naturally and be easy. That’s rarely true.

This workshop will look at what it really takes to move toward collective leadership. You’ll get practical tools and resources to help you think critically about how leadership and governance work in nonprofits today. Drawing from real experiences of senior leaders in the field, we’ll also explore how boards, executives, and managers can put collective leadership into action in meaningful ways.

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.

Organizational and collaborative leaders currently exploring or looking at transitioning to a collective leadership approach
Board directors who are eager to understand and support senior organizational 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.

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.

Registration for this session is 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.

Members of our Ending Poverty, Building Belonging, Youth Futures and Climate Transtitions networks are eligible for the group pricing regardless of their group size.

Embracing Collective Leadership

About the workshop

Workshop Pre-Learning

3.5 Hour Virtual Workshops

1-Hour Coaching Session

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