IMPACT CONSULTINGAdvancing justice, equity, and liberation as 21st-century leadership competencies
Healing and well-being are core to making leadership sustainable
Increasing leadership learning and capacity
We support individuals and teams across various sectors.
LeaderSpring brings decades of experience in facilitating place-based learning communities with a deep commitment to social justice, racial and gender equity, and genuine systemic change.
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.
COHORTCohort-Based Peer Learning Communities
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.
Our work is grounded in our values
OUR VALUES-
Our work calls for cultivating deep relationships beyond transactional and surface-level interactions. We create a community of care in which connections are forged through trust, meaningful conversations, shared struggles, mutual respect, vulnerability, empathy, accountability, and a sustained commitment to growth, compassion, and understanding. We acknowledge that this way of relating requires time and intentionality.
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Emergence is a dynamic process of collective listening in which we slow down to hold the complexities of the needs that arise for our communities, our sector, and each other, while discerning, welcoming, and cultivating what must come. We do this so that we can respond in such a way that is consistent with our vision to advance just systems and practices.
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Through self-reflection one is able to observe, learn, and grow from behaviors, practices, and decisions. Such learning fosters transformative leadership, which requires the ability to make mistakes, take responsibility, and move forward with the intention to do better.
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Freedom is the state we are all born in; liberation is the action we take every day to get back to that collective freedom. Our liberation is inextricably interconnected with one another and our beyond-human kin. This call to action motivates us to make every effort to dismantle white supremacist culture and systems of oppression within ourselves, our organizations, the sector, and society at large.
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“I am because you are.” We believe that leadership is an interconnected process among people to cultivate and steward relationships, ideas, and resources to bring forward an emergent future for the greatest good.
Transcending title and position, leadership is having the courage to take responsibility for finding and cultivating the potential in people and processes. It requires bravery and vulnerability, while taking care of oneself to avoid burnout.
Transformational leadership sees beyond dominant systems of oppression and exercises the courage to develop new systems that align with liberty, self-determination, and community well-being. It requires a self-aware analysis of power dynamics across roles, decisions, and relationships, and is a collective effort, inviting everyone to bring in their experience, skills, strengths, and creativity.
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Our love-ethic guides a stance of spaciousness, flexibility, abundance, and generosity as mechanisms for community healing and wholeness. We uplift radical, collective and individual wellness as justice work.
A NOTE ABOUT DEIB SERVICES
We are phasing out our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging consulting work. Over the past five years, we have been called upon and provided DEIB consulting support to many organizations. This has been important and hard work. As LeaderSpring continues its evolution we are reexamining the resources required to do this work sustainably and well, along with the current appetite for the financial, emotional, and time investments we ask of our client partners. Justice and liberation remain the central drive and goal of our work as we launch our new offerings.
We appreciate and affirm the work of other orgs in the DEIB field and encourage you to explore their offerings:
CompassPoint | Race Forward | Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) | Grant Makers in the Arts (Gia) National Equity Project | Art Equity | Equity in the Center
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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
OUR CLIENTSWe are grateful for our clients in this work
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