Knowing, Being, & Doing Better: Becoming the Leader the World Needs Now
Do you feel disconnected from your values, your team, or the community you are serving? Are you waiting for a policy change, a big decision, or a funding source to save the day? Do you feel like you are trying to work differently, yet still seeing the same results? Are you tired?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, we get it. Leadership is hard enough as it is. Leading in rapidly changing times can feel nearly impossible or just utterly exhausting. We invite you to pause, reflect, and revisit your role, your ways of being, and ways of leading, not as an extra task to check off your list, but as the foundation for meaningful change and regenerative impact.
In this 3-part virtual series, you'll experience the Know Better, Be Better, Do Better (KBD) Approach to leadership. Together, we’ll slow down and explore how we seek understanding and generate knowledge to inform our work. We’ll examine how we show up in relationship with our staff, teams, or community, and how we can become more intentional and aligned with our purpose and values. Grounded in equity-centered system change and applicable across nonprofit and mission-driven organizations, we will examine how knowledge, mindsets, and action interact to foster a sustainable and joyful organizational culture, thoughtful decision-making, and transformational change.
Each session offers practical strategies, as well as opportunities to reflect and apply learning in real time. The shifts you’re seeking don’t start somewhere else– they start here. Now is the time, and…
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” – June Jordan
Series Dates: Tuesdays, September 15th, 22nd, and 29th (9:00am - 11am PT / 12:00pm - 2pm ET)
Session 1: Knowing Better
Description and Objectives:
Knowing Better is not about getting it right all the time. Explore your interpretation of leadership, your values, and the sources of knowledge that shape how you do your work. Together, we will explore and discuss the following questions:
What is our understanding of leadership and what does it mean to be an effective leader?
How well do we know the people, places, and communities we are seeking to support?
What sources of knowledge, frameworks, and wisdom do we rely on the most in our work? What might we be missing?
Leave this session with actionable strategies to expand your ways of knowing as a leader.
Session 2: Being Better
Description and Objectives:
Being Better is not about what we accomplish. It’s about how we show up and the cultures we create along the way.
Together, we will:
Explore personal cultural identities and values that shape our leadership approach and practices
Identify dominant cultural norms and how they appear in different contexts
Examine how your values, mindsets, and state of being impact how we interpret and respond to behavior, make decisions, and see possibilities
At the end of this session, you will write a personalized statement to guide your leadership approach and articulate the values, mindsets, and ways of being you’ll use to transform your leadership practices.
Session 3: Doing Better
Description and Objectives:
Doing better is not about doing more. In this session, we will explore how slowing down, prioritizing, and redefining accountability can strengthen both outcomes and relationships. Together, we will:
Discuss KBD’s 5 Key Drivers and how they can support equity-centered program, organization, and systems change
Identify strategies to disrupt harmful norms about “progress” or “success” to better support equitable, collaborative spaces and teams
You will leave this session with a new personal definition of success you can use to frame and re-examine projects and priorities.
Interested in registering a team or want to bring this series to your whole organization? Contact us for invoicing and scheduling options.
Do you feel disconnected from your values, your team, or the community you are serving? Are you waiting for a policy change, a big decision, or a funding source to save the day? Do you feel like you are trying to work differently, yet still seeing the same results? Are you tired?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, we get it. Leadership is hard enough as it is. Leading in rapidly changing times can feel nearly impossible or just utterly exhausting. We invite you to pause, reflect, and revisit your role, your ways of being, and ways of leading, not as an extra task to check off your list, but as the foundation for meaningful change and regenerative impact.
In this 3-part virtual series, you'll experience the Know Better, Be Better, Do Better (KBD) Approach to leadership. Together, we’ll slow down and explore how we seek understanding and generate knowledge to inform our work. We’ll examine how we show up in relationship with our staff, teams, or community, and how we can become more intentional and aligned with our purpose and values. Grounded in equity-centered system change and applicable across nonprofit and mission-driven organizations, we will examine how knowledge, mindsets, and action interact to foster a sustainable and joyful organizational culture, thoughtful decision-making, and transformational change.
Each session offers practical strategies, as well as opportunities to reflect and apply learning in real time. The shifts you’re seeking don’t start somewhere else– they start here. Now is the time, and…
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” – June Jordan
Series Dates: Tuesdays, September 15th, 22nd, and 29th (9:00am - 11am PT / 12:00pm - 2pm ET)
Session 1: Knowing Better
Description and Objectives:
Knowing Better is not about getting it right all the time. Explore your interpretation of leadership, your values, and the sources of knowledge that shape how you do your work. Together, we will explore and discuss the following questions:
What is our understanding of leadership and what does it mean to be an effective leader?
How well do we know the people, places, and communities we are seeking to support?
What sources of knowledge, frameworks, and wisdom do we rely on the most in our work? What might we be missing?
Leave this session with actionable strategies to expand your ways of knowing as a leader.
Session 2: Being Better
Description and Objectives:
Being Better is not about what we accomplish. It’s about how we show up and the cultures we create along the way.
Together, we will:
Explore personal cultural identities and values that shape our leadership approach and practices
Identify dominant cultural norms and how they appear in different contexts
Examine how your values, mindsets, and state of being impact how we interpret and respond to behavior, make decisions, and see possibilities
At the end of this session, you will write a personalized statement to guide your leadership approach and articulate the values, mindsets, and ways of being you’ll use to transform your leadership practices.
Session 3: Doing Better
Description and Objectives:
Doing better is not about doing more. In this session, we will explore how slowing down, prioritizing, and redefining accountability can strengthen both outcomes and relationships. Together, we will:
Discuss KBD’s 5 Key Drivers and how they can support equity-centered program, organization, and systems change
Identify strategies to disrupt harmful norms about “progress” or “success” to better support equitable, collaborative spaces and teams
You will leave this session with a new personal definition of success you can use to frame and re-examine projects and priorities.
Interested in registering a team or want to bring this series to your whole organization? Contact us for invoicing and scheduling options.