Seminars
Rich learning groups, limited to 12 people, exploring perennial leadership challenges
Each seminar gathers up to 12 participants, to create space for every voice. In this setting, members of an organization can step back from day-to-day pressures and engage in the kind of learning that sharpens judgment, strengthens relationships, and deepens perspective.
Seminars can be structured around a specific theme — such as decision-making, integrity, institutional change, or moral complexity — or tailored to your organization’s goals. Readings and cases are selected for their relevance, richness, and ability to spark meaningful dialogue.
Rather than delivering content, the facilitator’s role is to guide the discussion, pose key questions, and create a space where participants can think together. Whether held as a one-time session or a recurring series, these seminars help teams and leaders build the habits of reflection, listening, and constructive disagreement — essentials for any group that wants to lead with clarity and purpose.
Nonprofits
Nonprofit leadership brings a unique mix of mission, complexity, and care for people. Our seminars create space for nonprofit teams to reflect together — not just on what they’re doing, but how and why they lead.
Each seminar brings together up to 12 participants for a guided conversation built around key readings, real-world cases, and shared experience. The format encourages thoughtful dialogue, honest questions, and deeper connection among team members. Whether you’re navigating change, clarifying your mission, or facing challenges in leadership, these sessions provide a structured space to think together — and lead forward.
Seminars can focus on themes like institutional resilience, values in action, ethical tension, or the human side of leadership. Readings are drawn from classic texts, contemporary cases, or organizational life — always selected to spark reflection and real conversation.
These are not lectures or trainings. They’re leadership learning communities — short-form, high-trust spaces where participants practice listening, questioning, and seeing from multiple perspectives. The facilitator guides the conversation and holds the space, but the learning comes from within the group.
In a field where mission matters and time is tight, seminars offer nonprofit leaders a rare and valuable chance to pause, reflect, and lead more intentionally — together.
The Power of Questions
Question are the spark of leadership.
Groups and the Division of Labor
You’ll never take the magic of collaboration for granted after this wide-ranging seminar.
Motivation That Works
Effective motivation begins by understanding people’s core psychological and psychic needs, and building roles and workplace frameworks that support those needs.
Culture and the BS Gap
Every organization has a collective human side — its culture. This seminar will help you understand the three levels of culture, how to work with culture, and how to manage the tension of the BS gap.
The Leader’s Toolkit: Working with Bureaucracy
The B-word: find out why it’s worse than you think, better than you think, and critical to success in modern organizations. Bureaucrats welcome.
The Leader’s Toolkit: Messaging That Gets Results
If you can’t get your message across — or worse, you have no message — how do you expect people to follow your leadership. This fun presentation highlights the vital keys to explaining, engaging, and activating people with your words.
The Leader’s Toolkit: Navigating — and Delivering — Change
The imperative to change is why organizations need leaders, especially those committed to problem-based leadership. Find out why change is the key reality of modern organizations, how to navigate it, and how to oversee effective change efforts.
Sparking Imagination: Leadership in Shakespeare
A rich dive into excerpts from plays like Henry V, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest, and how they depict leaders in complex ways.
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