In today's ever-evolving and demanding landscape, fostering trust and championing equity in collaborative settings has never been more critical. This workshop aims to empower you to build on your efforts to create inclusive spaces, broaden and deepen your decision-making circle, celebrate and uplift diverse perspectives, and make a lasting impact on collective efforts through inclusive and adaptive leadership practices.
By embracing diversity, leaders are better equipped to enact meaningful change and cultivate organizations that are innovative, authentically representative and forward-thinking. Leading diverse groups requires trust and empathy, which can lead to teams that offer multiple perspectives. This approach enhances your understanding of systemic barriers, facilitates strategic engagement with systems of power, and reshapes your knowledge of the origins and implications of various forms of oppression.
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
Tools and practice, i.e. partner mapping, power analysis, volunteer recruitment canvas, engaging business/LE 10 Guides
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.
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.
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.
