Empowering Change:

Advancing Diversity in Collaboratives 

Virtual Workshop | May 14, 2026 

11:00 AM - 2:30 PM ET 

Virtual Workshop

Virtual Workshop Hours

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Coaching Call

About the workshop

In today’s demanding and ever-evolving landscape, fostering trust, championing equity, and working effectively across difference are essential. This workshop supports leaders, practitioners, and collaborators who want to create more inclusive, responsive, and impactful outcomes.

Participants will strengthen their ability to create inclusive and brave spaces, broaden decision-making circles, and uplift diverse perspectives. The workshop focuses on inclusive and adaptive leadership practices that build trust, deepen collaboration, and increase collective impact.

By embracing diversity, leaders are better equipped to drive meaningful change and cultivate innovative, representative organizations and initiatives. Leading diverse groups with trust and empathy results in teams that bring multiple perspectives, deepen understanding of systemic barriers, and engage more strategically with systems of power.

Workshop Pre-Learning

 This is an introductory workshop aimed at those in decision-making power who seek to diversify their collaboratives. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Engage in conversation and peer-learning around diversifying your collaborative decision-making table.

Sharing resources to support continued learning and to help navigate diversification challenges you may be facing  

 

 

 

Join us to:  

  • Gain an understanding of strategies for recruiting diverse talent to leadership positions and fostering ongoing support for diverse perspectives through a unified and inclusive agenda.

  • Build capacity, workplace structures, and culture that will allow for effective collaboration across diverse partnerships 

  • Foster trust with those most impacted by systemic marginalization, ensuring they have meaningful opportunities to voice their perspectives and shape decisions that impact their lives

  • Design and implement an equitable compensation framework that offers reciprocity and acknowledgment of the lived experience and labour being offered 

  • Move to action and maintain a connection to a larger equity-centred vision

  • Co-create appropriate leadership tools and practice improvements  

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.

Learn more about Daren

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Rochelle Ignacio

Rochelle Ignacio

Rochelle Ignacio (she/her) is an equity strategist, facilitator, public speaker and community builder who guides organizations and individuals through meaningful equity and anti-racism journeys. Grounded in an intentional, relational, and care-based framework, she fosters environments where belonging, reconciliation, and transformative change can take root.

Learn more about Rochelle

pricing & logistics

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 Institute's 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.

 Tamarack Members are eligible for the group pricing regardless of their group size.

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.

 

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