Are you a director or manager interested in sharpening & honing your skills for leading your team to inspire more motivation & collaboration while creating more impactful outcomes for your customers/clients/community?
Are you looking for a community of peers with whom to brainstorm, strategize & troubleshoot common leadership & management challenges outside the politics of your office & organization?
Are you committed to racial equity but struggling to figure out how to operationalize equity in your internal policies and programmatic outcomes beyond stale staff trainings & dialogue circles?
Are you hungry for new strategies, tools and frameworks to level-up your team culture, outcomes and career prospects?
If you answered “yes!” to any of the above, please apply for Subduction Consulting & El Porvenir Services’
2024-2025 STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP INTENSIVE!
Click here to watch the recording of our Open House & Info Session for prospective applicants
Carlos Kareem Windham
El Porvenir Services
Theresa Logan
Subduction Consulting
Under the guidance of 2 extraordinarily experienced leadership consultants, the 2024-25 Strategic Leadership Intensive will offer selected applicants the opportunity to learn with and from colleagues across a range of organizations. We will work to tailor effective change strategies, troubleshoot challenges, and celebrate success on the path to creating more just & effective teams and organizations.
SCHEDULe
Thursdays, 9AM - 12PM Pacific on Zoom.
Initial Training: Weekly, Oct 3 - Nov 7
Cohort Sessions: 1st & 3rd Thursdays, Nov 21 - Jun 5
We will work to provide ASL interpretation or other accommodations upon request. Please include any accommodation requests in your application.
Applications due September 23, 2024.
Late applications may be accepted.
“You have provided me with insights that I never thought I would have. I realized I already knew a lot of the information. But I didn’t have the language for it. I didn’t know how to constructively use it. I didn’t know how to string string it all together to make effective change. You’ve modeled that. ”
“Going through the cohort with peers allowed me to grow within a safe environment that also challenged me. It gave me new tools and opportunities to look at ways of approaching the work that really fundamentally changed how I see my role in equity within my community. ”
Achieve Lasting Impact
Unlock your potential and drive real change with a comprehensive professional development program designed to equip you with the skills and strategies to navigate conflict, lead for equity, and achieve meaningful progress in your organization.
Here’s How You’ll Grow:
Level up your skills for transforming conflict while leading for equity
Through our 6-week core training Navigating Conflict, Leading for Equity, you’ll gain actionable insights and strategies to tackle common leadership & management challenges head-on. Increase your confidence & skills for leading in alignment with your values and drive your organization towards its equity goals.
Transform Challenges into Opportunities for Growth
Bi-monthly facilitated cohort sessions will support you in applying what you’ve learned to your daily work. You’ll collaborate with peers, refine your strategies, and create effective policies that not only address immediate challenges but also set your organization on a path to sustained success. Build resilience, craft value-driven strategies, and create policies that guide your organization towards its goals.
Receive Personalized Support to Accelerate Your Progress
Our program includes individual consultations tailored to your unique challenges. You’ll receive expert advice to help you craft responsive strategies, support your team’s professional development, and mitigate burnout and dysfunction. With our guidance, you’ll transform interpersonal conflicts and manage resistance to equity work, ensuring your team thrives in a supportive environment.
Stay Connected and Continue Learning Between Sessions
Our private virtual workspace and discussion forum keep you connected with facilitators and fellow leaders, ensuring that your growth doesn’t stop between live sessions. Share insights, ask questions, and collaborate on strategies to keep your momentum going.
Join a Thriving Community Committed to Racial Justice
As a Strategic Leadership Intensive participant, you’ll receive complimentary membership in Strategy & Solidarity, Subduction Consulting & El Porvenir Services’ vibrant community of leaders, activists, and practitioners dedicated to racial justice and a sustainable future. This community will be your source of ongoing support, collaboration, and inspiration as you continue your journey toward equity and impact. A place to foster collaboration, develop strategies, and build solidarity in the pursuit of lasting change.
Ready to Lead for Equity and Achieve Real Results?
Join us and take the next step in your leadership journey. Together, we’ll create a future where equity is at the heart of every decision and where your leadership drives meaningful, lasting change.
What you get
Our 6-week core-training Navigating Conflict, Leading for the Future.
Bi-monthly facilitated cohort sessions to develop skills & strategies to respond to real time challenges without losing focus on long-term skills.
Individual consultation & expert advice for developing your skills and creating more success in your relationships & goals.
A private virtual workspace & discussion forum to connect with the facilitators and fellow leaders asynchronously between live sessions.
Complimentary membership in Strategy & Solidarity - our growing community of leaders, activists, artists, and practitioners working to cultivate skills, develop strategies, foster collaboration, and build solidarity in our collective pursuit of racial justice and a sustainable future for our descendants.
Our Approach
Our leadership philosophy is one of stewardship – prioritizing the communication and execution of a shared vision via tangible, actions and processes.
Moving racial equity and human dignity in the workplace is a calling as much as an occupational duty – learning how to move the arch of justice in favor of the most impacted is a learned skill and serves as the moral compass of our work.
Stewards of justice must articulate and clarify a mission, while defining a vision that guides their team as they navigate the often treacherous waters between future vision and current reality.
The most impactful stewards can simultaneously keep the big picture and the key details in mind, keeping an eye on the short and long-term mission – while never relinquishing the stated vision.
The leadership skills required for this brand of stewardship include effective communication, a focus on culture & outcomes, judicious deployment of power, self-control, compassion, consistency, loyalty, an ability to listen, willingness to be proven wrong, and ability to provide strong motivation to self & others.
Together we will enhance each of the following areas with specificity:
the ability to motivate & educate others
group facilitation skills
community organizing skills
understanding HR processes and pitfalls
ongoing commitment to learning, self-reflection, and self-care
the willingness to engage in bold experiments
resilience & creativity to navigate failures & challenges
Schedule
The 2024-2025 Strategic Leadership Intensive includes an initial 6-week training series, followed by bimonthly cohort work sessions, providing 65+ hours of professional development, community building, collaboration, and consultation.
All sessions are on Thursdays, 9AM – 12PM Pacific
6-Week Core Training: Weekly October 3rd – November 7 (live & recorded).
Bi-monthly Cohort Sessions: 1st & 3rd Thursdays, November 7, 2024 – June 5th (live, not recorded).
Each live cohort session includes 2 hours of generative, facilitated content, followed by optional “office hours,” where participants can meet individually or in small groups with the facilitators to discuss individual questions and their organization-specific challenges.
Training Sessions (Live & Recorded)
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Cohort Sessions (Live, not recorded)
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Requirements & Selection Criteria
The cohort will be limited to 20 participants. All are welcome to apply.
We will prioritize applications from Black, Indigenous and People of Color leaders, and from organizations seeking to enroll multiple leaders in the cohort as a strategy team. Participation also requires that:
You believe that Black Lives and Trans Lives matter.
Your organization is committed to investing time/energy/resources in supporting you and your efforts to apply and implement what you learn and develop in the cohort.
You agree to hold any/all information about fellow cohort participants’ identities, stories, experiences, and organizations in the strictest confidentiality.
Investment- $3,500
6-months of equivalent private consulting services would likely run your organization $36,000 - $50,000. The Strategic Leadership Intensive is our collective offering to:
make our services accessible to organizations with limited resources
reach more organizations than we can directly engage in our private client work
build more client and community capacity to lead equity work without consultants - we would all genuinely LOVE to live in a world that no longer needed our equity consulting services!
The $25 application processing fee will be applied towards approved participants’ program fee.
Applications due September 23rd.
Late applications may be considered on a rolling basis until all seats are filled.
FAQ
Is this opportunity right for me?
The 2024-2025 Strategic Leadership Intensive is designed for managers, directors and non-supervisory leaders committed to using their positions of power to advance racial justice. This intensive professional development program will provide skills, strategies, frameworks, expert advice and peer support for navigating the most common challenges managers face, including:
Overwhelming workloads and staff burnout, complacency & complaining.
Spending too much of your day managing interpersonal conflict & drama.
Difficulty connecting equity goals to staff’s daily tasks and “real work.”
Resistance to equity work and dissatisfactory organizational responses to experiences of racialized harm.
Participating leaders will receive individualized support in troubleshooting & navigating their most pressing real time challenges. We will build a network of peer support while strengthening skills & tools for:
Cultivating team cultures that are caring, supportive and effective!
Identifying your superpowers and growth edges as a leader, and tailoring strategies to reach your individual & team goals.
Setting equity and inclusion goals that are centered in your team’s core purpose and the experience of the most historically impacted.
Managing interpersonal dynamics & performance issues with clear boundaries & expectations, effective communication strategies, and real accountability.
If these challenges sound familiar, and this support sounds like what you need, please apply!
Do you have scholarships or payment plans available?
Yes, we will consider partial scholarship requests from small community based organizations with limited professional development budgets and from individual leaders of Color lacking full organizational funding. Please note your scholarship or payment plan request in your program application. We will confirm scholarship & payment plan arrangements upon acceptance into the program.
Can I still participate if i know i won’t be able to make all of the dates?
Yes! The first 6-weeks of core training will be offered live and recorded for those who cannot attend live. The bi-monthly cohort sessions will NOT be recorded to protect the confidentiality of participants and to encourage uncensored & honest discussion of individual & organizational challenges. We will provide session summaries/notes & ensure you have what you need to catch you up if you miss a cohort session.