Leading Change

Overview

Overview

Creating change in complex systems often feels overwhelming — but it starts with understanding yourself, your community and the structures around you. This three-course pathway explores how each person’s experience can be a powerful tool for driving systems change. You can expect to deepen your self-awareness, build your understanding of the systems impacting your community and identify ways to lead meaningful change. 

You should embark on this learning journey if you want to: 

• Develop self-awareness to navigate complexity 
• Exercise authority with clarity 
• Lead meaningful change across roles, boundaries and systems 

Courses in this learning journey include: 

• Leading with Awareness: How We Show Up Matters
• Uncovering Systemic Root Causes  
• Leadership through Person-Role-System 

What is a learning journey? 

Learning journeys are a curated collection of self-paced courses, designed to help you move from understanding to action on key concepts needed to improve outcomes in a community. As you work through the courses, you will gain the fundamental knowledge that will lead you to application and deeper insight. If you want to dive even deeper, sign up for an optional quarterly live session to talk through what you’re learning and applying with peers and subject matter experts. 

1. Leading with Awareness

1. Leading with Awareness: How We Show Up Matters

To lead transformational change, we must understand and address the deep-rooted barriers that shape access, opportunity, and advancement. Participants will develop a shared understanding of the underlying factors influencing individual and group outcomes. We’ll also introduce a set of leadership competencies to help you show up with greater awareness, courage, and clarity as we work to interrupt harmful cycles and create systems that allows everyone to thrive.  

2. Uncovering Systemic Root Causes

2. Uncovering Systemic Root Causes

This course will cover how to conduct a factor analysis to identify the root causes and contributing factors that affect your identified problem. The factor analysis will help you understand unique issues and challenges faced by the population you are working with and inform future strategies.  

3. Leadership Through a Person-Role-System Lens

3. Leadership Through a Person-Role-System Lens

This course is designed to help leaders understand how their values fit within a Person-Role-System (PRS) framework and how this framework can be used to enhance their effectiveness as leaders. It focuses on building knowledge of self, understanding one’s role, and recognizing how colleagues engage with their roles within the system to maximize overall contributions. By understanding your work habits and how others approach their roles, you will be better equipped to develop stronger strategies that are more likely to drive you toward your desired results.