We invite you to join us for From Self to Systems: Leadership for Collective Impact, a new three day Collective Impact Forum training that focuses on developing the skills, practices, and capacities that leaders can apply to their collective impact initiatives to achieve greater, more lasting results.

About this Workshop

Collective impact efforts involve complex leadership challenges that call for new mindsets, tools, and practices. We have learned from the field some of the big challenges leaders face- aligning groups behind a common agenda and result; building trust among people with different backgrounds, positions, and interests; and understanding and helping others navigate the complex systems involved with achieving tangible community-wide change. We believe leaders must first look within (to consider one’s own contribution to the problem and the solution), then to others (to catalyze broader leadership in the change process), then to the whole system (to better understand the complex dynamics that prevent or accelerate progress). This three day training will equip leaders with the self-awareness, collaborative skills, and system thinking practices that will help participants advance past some of the common barriers that hinder collective impact.

Who is this workshop for?

Whether you are a member of the backbone team, a funder, a service provider, or a member of the community, this training will develop your leadership to work with others more inclusively, collaboratively, and strategically to achieve greater change.

What will you learn during this workshop?

Over three days, you will be part of a cohort of colleagues that will move through three stages of leadership development.

• Leading Self: Learn how to identify your own leadership strengths and purpose, to balance confidence and humility, to shift the role you play at different tables within your collaborative, and to maintain accountability in recognizing and furthering racial equity within your initiative.
  
  
• Leading Others: Learn methods for building trust, understanding different leadership styles, giving and receiving feedback, and facilitating the difficult conversations that are often necessary to achieve greater inclusion, innovation, and alignment.
  
  
• Leading Systems: Learn to embrace an emergent approach to leadership, by adopting mental model shifts that truly acknowledge the complexity of systems change.

Who will be leading this training?

This training will be led by a small core group of faculty, including:

• Sujatha Jesudason, Executive Director, CoreAlign

• John Kania, Managing Director, FSG
  
  
• Paul Schmitz, Senior Advisor, Collective Impact Forum

• Lalitha Vaidyanathan, Managing Director, FSG
  

We will draw on your experience and create a highly interactive learning environment that will be results-focused and emphasize real world application to address the challenges you face in your collective impact work.

Register now for this new training. Fewer than 100 spots are open for this inaugural workshop. Reserve your space now. Early Bird Rate ends Feb. 15, 2016.

Workshop Refund Policy - Please Note

Full refunds will be offered until Friday, February 19, and partial refunds will be offered (less a $150 administration fee) until Friday, March 11. Refunds cannot be made after March 11, but substitutions are possible. Substitution names must be confirmed and submitted by Friday, March 25, 2016.

Scholarships

Scholarship applications are now closed. A limited number of scholarships for a 50% discount are available for this workshop. The due date for scholarship applications was January 31, 2016, and decisions will be made by February 10, 2016.

Scholarship priorities are to help subsidize registration for those whose organizational budgets are less than $500,000, or who are from an underrepresented group within nonprofit leadership. Leaders of color, women leaders, leaders with disabilities, and leaders who identify on the LGBTQIA spectrum are encouraged to apply.

Hotel Accommodations


The Kellogg Conference Center and Hotel at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, isthe event headquarters hotel. From Self to Systems registrants receive a discounted rate on rooms at the venue. The room rates available are:

• Regular Room: $179 plus applicable taxes
• Executive Room: $209 plus applicable taxes

Once you register for the training you will receive an email with the link to book your room in the discounted room block.

Workshop Sponsor

We express our sincere gratitude to American Express for their support for From Self to Systems: Leadership for Collective Impact.