THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU IF…

You're a mid-career professional navigating complex challenges in a rapidly evolving industry. Whether you're in philanthropy, education, environmental justice, healthcare, or technology, this course equips you with the tools to lead effectively in today’s dynamic landscape.

What You'll Gain

  • Inspire and Motivate Your Team: Learn strategies to inspire, align, and motivate your team towards common goals.

  • Master Collaboration: Develop the art of teamwork to tackle complex challenges with confidence.

  • Foster Innovation and Inclusivity: Create a culture that sparks innovation and supports diverse perspectives.

  • Develop Your Leadership Style: Build an authentic leadership style aligned with your organization's mission.

  • Enhance Communication Skills: Become a more effective communicator and listener, building trust and inspiring action.

  • Learn from Experts: Gain insights from experienced facilitators and connect with like-minded professionals.

Why Join Us?

In these VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) times, the ability to lead with agility and confidence is paramount. This course offers you the opportunity to transform your leadership style, ensuring you're equipped to navigate the myriad challenges your sector faces with inclusion, precision and impact.

Limited Space Available: To ensure personalized learning, our cohort is capped at just 10 participants.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Engage and Build Trust: Use participatory processes to create deeper engagement and align stakeholders.

Enhance Leadership Impact: Become a more impactful, authentic, and collaborative leader.

Strengthen Team Cohesion: Increase team buy-in, commitment, and trust with proven tools and models.

COURSE LOGISTICS:

Monthly 90-Minute Workshops: Interactive group sessions on Zoom.

Private Slack Channel: Continuous learning and resource sharing.

Peer Coaching Pods: Three-person groups for mutual support and accountability.

Monthly 1:1 Coaching: Personalized guidance from the instructor.

6MONTH COURSE MODULES

1. Participatory Processes

2. The Art & Science of Group Facilitation

3. Decision Making for the 21st Century

4. Powerful Inquiry & Questions That Catalyze

5. Performance Feedback & Conflict Management

6. Emotional Intelligence & Self-Care

APPLICATION PROCESS:

1. Fill out the interest form.

2. One-on-one intake conversation with the instructor.

3. Pay the invoice.

COST*:

$2,975 per student.

Scholarships & discounts available upon request.

Why We Need to Transform Our Leadership Style

Effective collaboration requires deep trust. With trust, we can advance equity, elevate marginalized voices, and foster inclusive environments. Leaders set the organizational tone, creating culture and conditions for success. This course equips emerging leaders with the skills to navigate complex tasks, support staff, and achieve their highest potential.

Participants will explore leadership theories and models, practice real-life applications of inclusive processes that drive innovation and impact via live Zoom workshops, asynchronous Slack conversations, peer coaching pods, and 1-on-1 coaching, all in a supportive, small-cohort setting.

Join us in reshaping the future of work. Together, we can create engaged, purpose-driven employees and thriving organizations.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Daniel designs and facilitates human-centered solutions to the challenges individuals, teams and organizations face.

Daniel holds a Master's degree in Organizational Development, and is a certified breath coach and yoga instructor. For over 10 years, he has supported diverse individuals, teams and organizations to create positive changes - improving communication, collaboration, and overall performance.

His approach is highly collaborative, working closely with clients to understand their unique needs and challenges, then designing a safe and supportive environment where individuals and teams can explore their strengths and limitations as they develop new skills and strategies for success.

With extensive time spent abroad and deep work experience, Daniel brings a depth of multi-cultural understanding to diverse workplaces. He has extensive experience in start-up organizations, leadership and team development, program design, group facilitation, training, community engagement and public relations.

This course has given me confidence and tools that I will be using going forward and has made me a much better communicator and manager. I recommend this course to anyone who wants to enhance their leadership skills. This is an amazing course and experience!
— Julio Bautista, Senior Grants and Systems Officer, The JPB Foundation
The knowledge and perspectives shared centered relationships and increased our awareness of self and others, making us better prepared to respond with agency. I gained more tools in my toolkit and applied many concepts in my work, from facilitating collaborative processes to diagnosing organizational issues and addressing conflict.

This cohort will continue to influence how I show up as a human and a leader.
— Cindy Alvarado, MPA, Grant Manager, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina Foundation
Daniel brought in great energy; he was really funny, energetic, and full of passion. I learned much more than I expected!
— Giuliana Martinez, Workshop Attendee
Daniel was very skilled in the art of leader wrangling. With his leadership, our team was able to accomplish our goals, learn from one another, and decrease silo thinking and behavior. I have a much deeper understanding of the roles and goals of my fellow managers after this workshop. Our team is stronger thanks to his guidance.
— Ruth A Vosmek, LCSW Manager, Kaiser Permanente
I highly recommend this course to anyone seeking to develop the knowledge and confidence to be a impactful, self-aware, and resilient leader. Having the opportunity to learn, practice, and reflect on influence and communication styles led to a notable growth in my personal and professional journey, with the highlight for me being the coaching calls with Daniel where I was able to reflect on how I am applying these skills with intent and working with him to clarify and refine my leadership style.
— Trey Brown, Director Grants Management, The Rockefeller Foundation
One of Daniel’s many superpowers is inviting authentic connections in professional settings.

His ethos includes being consistent, caring, and supportive. I cannot say enough about how much these three traits matter when you are tasked with convening people for a purpose.
— Satonya Fair, CEO PEAK Grantmaking
Daniel is the ideal partner for high-quality and deeply engaging team and culture development. He is able to meet groups of people where they are collectively and individually and through a mix of mind and heart move things towards greater functioning, clarity, shared understanding and optimism. People feel seen and cared about by Daniel so they open up, becoming more real and put the important things on the table to be addressed. Daniel is able to create the container and the process to take information, context and the wisdom of a group and create transformative spaces. On several different teams and projects, I have benefited from the results created by Daniel’s work. In short, he leaves people, organizations and teams in a better place each time he engages and does so with his signature intelligence, generosity, humility and confidence.
— Sara Davis, Non-Profit/Philanthropic Executive
Daniel’s training not only meet expectations, he exceeded them. Daniel did a great job making our staff feel comfortable by creating a safe and fun environment. Daniel’s positive energy and ability to adapt to his audience makes him a great coaching and training professional.
— Christian Garcia, Program Director, The Organizing & Leadership Academy
At the conclusion of our work, our team became a stronger unit in which members freely communicate and trust each other.
— Bud Martin, National Practice Leader, Wells Fargo Insurance

Course Payment Policy:

  1. A non-refundable deposit of 15% of the course fee is required to secure a participant's spot in the course.

  2. The remaining 85% of the course fee will be invoiced a month before the first day of the course (Dec. 2023). Payment terms for the invoice will be net-30, meaning the payment is due within 30 days from the invoice date.

Course Cancellation Policy:

  1. If a participant needs to cancel their participation after paying the deposit, the participant’s organization has the option to substitute another member from their organization to attend the course without incurring any additional fees. The substitution must be communicated in writing and approved by the course organizer prior to the course start date.

  2. If a participant cancels without providing a substitute from their organization, the deposit amount remains non-refundable. The participant and/or their organization will not be held responsible for the remaining course fees if they do not attend the course.