COHORTCohort-Based Peer Learning Communities
Build and strengthen the skills of your organization’s leaders by strengthening your commitment and practices to justice and liberation
We customize leadership learning for communities of internal employees, networks, affinity groups, grantees, grantmakers, faculty, boards of directors, alliances and collaborations, and others. We integrate a lens of racial and gender equity, justice and liberation in our curriculum and pedagogy.
Our practice builds on the following areas of expertise
Cohort Learning
Whether a group of executives from multiple nonprofits or a single agency’s management team, we know that leaders learn best with and from their peers.
Holistic Development
Using our expertise in adult learning, human behavior, racial and gender equity, and social change, we cultivate leaders’ intellectual, emotional, and practical acumen to ignite deep and enduring change.
Action Learning
We bring together practical knowledge, direct application, and personal practice into the context of leaders’ daily work and organizing. We invite participants to create leadership plans and act on real-time challenges.
Our Approach
We co-create brave learning spaces in which communities of leaders commit to:
Justice and liberation practices
Self-examination and reflection to build self-awareness and engage personal agency
Examining practices and systems of oppression
Intentional application of new learning
Cultivating relationships to form trust and build community
Renewal and well-being as core to individual and community leadership sustainability
We look forward to working with you and your organization to strengthen the collective practices towards justice and liberation.
This work takes internal fortitude, collaboration, grounding, and collective visioning. We are honored to be on this journey with so many brilliant leaders, visionaries, creators, and disruptors.
To begin our work together, please complete the Impact Consulting Interest Form.
Meet our Past and Current Clients
METTA FUND2026 Emerging Leaders Serving Older Adults
STRONG Funding Collaborative2021 STRONG Emerging Leaders of Color of East Contra Costa County
STRONG FUNDING COLLABORATIVE2020 STRONG Emerging Leaders of Color of East Contra Costa County
Our Partnerships & Impact
We are proud to have partnered with these organizations to support leadership development programs that cultivate transformative leaders and strengthen communities. These collaborations reflect our shared commitment to advancing equity, building collective power, and nurturing leaders across the social sector.
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Black Disabled Leadership Project
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Leadership Development Institute for After-School Program
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Building Healthy Communities Hub Managers
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STRONG Emerging Leaders of Color 2020 and 2021
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Emerging Leaders Program 2026
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Multicultural Leadership
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Collaborative Advocacy + Power Partnership
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Koshland Fellows
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Contra Costa Leadership Institute
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What's Next Program
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Vallejo Building Black Power Project
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One of LeaderSpring’s major strengths is that it marries process and practice. LeaderSpring always has a theoretical backing for what it teaches, and that makes its practices very transferable. I now use many of these tools in my work, including the Leader Clinic, the altar practice, alliance building, journey maps, etc. For example, I now run my staff meetings using tools from LeaderSpring. My staff now reports higher satisfaction with these meetings.
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Evette Brandon, Hub Manager, East Oakland Building Healthy Communities
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