Leadership Dialogues
A new way to develop your leadership
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Beginning with the self
Explore your leadership story, habits, and values by getting honest about how they shape how you show up.
See the whole
See the systems you lead within: relationships, power, pressures, and the dynamics that enable or constrain change.
Learn by doing
Experiment in real time, build trust and reciprocity, and leave with the confidence and curiosity to keep learning through change.
What You’ll Learn
Exploring Leadership Identity in Context
In an era of political volatility, economic uncertainty, and shifting social expectations, leadership in the global nonprofit sector demands self-awareness and adaptability. This opening session invites participants to explore their leadership identity - what has shaped it, how it shows up in their current context, and where it may need to evolve.
Through guided reflection and dialogue, participants will examine how their values and leadership approaches align with today’s changing realities. We’ll position leadership as a socially constructed practice shaped by time, place, and system. By situating themselves within this wider understanding, participants will consider how their leadership story both reflects and shapes the systems they inhabit, setting the foundation for growth throughout the series.
Learning Outcomes:
A critical reflection on Leadership as practice.
How your own leadership has been shaped and crafted.
An understanding of where your leadership approach is supportive of the current moment and where it is lacking.
Mapping the Leadership Ecosystem
Change rarely happens in isolation. Economic disruptions, shifting power dynamics, and new forms of global cooperation are reshaping the ecosystems in which nonprofit leaders operate. Building on their understanding of leadership identity, participants will map the systems that influence their work, surfacing the relationships, structures, and informal networks that shape how leadership functions across contexts.
This practice reveals sources of influence, hidden barriers, and opportunities for collaboration, helping leaders identify where alignment and leverage are most needed. The session equips participants to act with greater systems awareness and intention amid growing complexity
Learning Outcomes:
The ability to conduct an ecosystem mapping exercise.
How to analyse your ecosystem map and develop appropriate actions.
Leading Through Change: From Awareness to Action
Periods of disruption call for leadership that is both reflective and action-oriented. As nonprofits navigate crises from funding volatility to political polarization, leaders must continually adapt how they lead change. This session moves from insight to implementation, guiding participants to identify concrete areas for growth in their practice. Drawing on Jacques Lacan’s psychodynamic theories, we’ll explore how unconscious patterns and organizational dynamics can reinforce resistance to change
Through peer coaching and feedback, participants will surface limiting beliefs and experiment with new approaches to leading transformation.
Learning Outcomes:
Understand some of the basics of leadership psychology
Gain experience using Action Learning Sets as a method of learning by doing.
Leading with Reciprocity: Building Trust and Mutuality Across Boundaries
As global systems shift, the nature of partnership in the nonprofit sector is being redefined. Effective leadership now requires fostering reciprocity - leading with others rather than over them.
This session explores how mutual accountability, shared decision-making, and co-created approaches can strengthen relationships across boundaries. Participants will contrast transactional and reciprocal models of leadership, examining how shifts from control to co-creation and from compliance to collaboration can unlock collective capacity. Through dialogue and applied exploration, they will identify strategies to operationalize reciprocity and build partnerships that not only withstand uncertainty but generate new possibilities for transformation.
Learning Outcomes:
Discover why reciprocity is essential in external partnerships during times of volatility.
Learn practical leadership practices to strengthen trust and collaboration with partners.
Relational Leadership: Strengthening Trust Architecture and Relational Authority
In times of systemic flux, relationships manifest stability. This session explores Relational Leadership: leading through connection, trust, and shared meaning. As organizations face rapid change, the ability to build and sustain trust becomes central to collective resilience. Participants will examine how trust is built, maintained, and repaired through practices such as narrative stewardship, conflict fluency, and relational contracting. They will also consider how to cultivate relational authority - influence grounded in credibility, empathy, and reliability rather than hierarchy.
Learning Outcomes:
Tools to build and sustain trust, foster learning and align teams amid change.
Theory in Practice
The concluding session of the Leadership Dialogues series brings the journey full circle, moving from reflection to application. As nonprofit leaders navigate complex political, economic, and social shifts, the capacity to experiment becomes essential.
In this session, participants will apply and test key concepts from the series through realistic scenarios drawn from their own contexts, strengthening their ability to translate insight into action. Theory in Practice reinforces that leadership is a continual cycle of experimentation, reflection, and adaptation, inviting participants to leave not with fixed answers, but with the curiosity and confidence to keep learning through change.
Learning Outcomes:
How key concepts from the programme can be applied in practice.
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Fresh perspectives on complex challenges Practical strategies you can use immediately Greater resilience and clarity A rich diverse cohort of non-profit leaders A trusted peer network for the future
An exploration into whats behind leadership behaviours under pressure
Meet Your Instructors
Monet Goode
Monet is a lifelong educator with a passion for creating accessible, engaging learning experiences. Known for a calm, encouraging teaching style, Monet believes that growth happens when learners feel both challenged and supported.
Emmett Marsh
Emmett is a detail-oriented instructor who’s spent the past decade helping people develop new tools, habits, and mindsets. Their approach is clear, practical, and always infused with curiosity and care.
Eleanor Parks
Eleanor's background spans education, coaching, and creative development. With a strong focus on process and progress, Eleanor helps learners move from where they are to where they want to be—one step at a time.
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