Give your organization’s leaders the tools to design & implement a transformational vision for leadership

A skill-building workshop that creates time and space for your staff to cultivate self-awareness, explore their assumptions about leadership, set meaningful goals, and create a vision for the next phases of their work. 

  • TIME

    1-, 2-, or 3-day in-person sessions, OR six 2-hour virtual sessions.

  • GROUP SIZE

    From small leadership teams to sites, districts, and organizations.

  • FORMAT

    Available in-person, virtually, and hybrid.

About Transformational Leadership

A transformational leader…

  • Is self-aware

  • Holds a bold purpose and vision

  • Unites community members over a shared sense of purpose 

  • Knows, values, and supports community members

  • Models practices they expect

  • Encourages creativity, risk-taking, and innovation

To hone these qualities, leaders need the time and space to cultivate self-awareness, explore their assumptions about leadership, set meaningful goals, and create a vision for the next phases of their work. 

While some leaders have been in their roles for a short period of time, and others have long standing positions, the practices in this workshop will allow leaders to hone their skills at whatever their stage is in the leadership journey.

Participants will leave with tools and skills they can immediately apply to their contexts.

Intended outcomes:

✔︎ REFLECT on the qualities of transformational leadership and identify areas for growth

✔︎ ENGAGE in research-informed processes to reflect, plan, and implement practices in one’s role(s)

✔︎ CONNECT and COLLABORATE with colleagues

✔︎ SET leadership goals and make plans to transform self and organization

Sample topics include:

  • Transformational Leadership Self-assessment and Goal-setting

  • Increasing Self- and Social-Awareness

  • Identifying SCARF Needs

  • Working with Power

  • Building Trust

  • The 8Ps of Intentional Meeting Planning

  • Generating and Enacting a Bold Vision

  • Immunity to Change and Building New Habits

Included in this package

  • Up to 2 hours of planning/logistics calls prior to the workshop.

  • Workshop preparation time (~2-3 hours of prep per one hour of workshop time)

  • A materials kit for each participant that includes activities to self-assess and refine your leadership

  • Workshop presentation time that is flexible and adaptive

  • The opportunity for follow-up to transfer and implement workshop practices

featured project

Multnomah Clackamas Regional Educator Network

Leaders from across two counties and 19 districts in Oregon gathered over three days to explore Transformational Leadership and engage in activities that invited them to connect in community, develop powerful leadership skills, and make bold long-term change for their school sites, districts, and education service districts.

Participants at this event shared appreciations for:

• Time to reflect on practice

• Using the self-assessment

• Completing my Leadership Vision; continuing using the tools that were offered

• Bringing my vision to life by speaking it to others.

• I plan to do some forward thinking of upcoming meetings and use the 8P's to frame them out.

• Revisiting and refining my vision statement. Using the 8 Ps to plan for the meeting to share with my instructional coaching team.

• Sharing my bold vision

• Continuing trust moves

featured project

NWAIS Summer Leadership Institute

This event serves those in k-12 independent schools in leadership roles such as division heads, department chairs and assistant heads and teacher leaders (i.e. mid-level leaders). Typically, around 50 leaders (but over 80 in some years) attend the institute from schools across NWAIS’s 8-state region.

“It all starts inside yourself. Nurture and guide your inner self and the external circumstances will fall into place. This is true for physical, mental, and emotional health. It’s also true for your personal life and relationships outside of school. These things are all connected and you are the nexus.”

John S., Head of upper school

What past participants have to say about Transformational Leadership

  • "I believed that I was feeling stuck and uninspired now I believe that I have a lot of opportunity to make micro-shifts in my own practice to improve my well-being in order to be the best colleague, leader I can for educators and students."

  • "There can be some challenging aspects of transformational leadership with some staff; there are some good resources for me to utilize as I attempt to engage with those staff members."

  • "I plan to use what I learned about power, SCARF, and trust to better my teacher observations and teacher eval cycle."

  • "I [now have] I need strategies to change the culture of my school, now I believe I need to start with my own reflection, modeling and practices to start a shift.

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