This session starts with an honest question: what brought you to this work, and is it still feeding you? Exhaustion and burnout is an ongoing threat to retaining passionate, experienced leaders: this session explores research on resiliency, leadership development, and collaborative action to support participants in identifying what's depleting them, find what gives them energy, and build a personal sustainability plan they can actually use.
The hardest problems rarely get solved by one person with the right expertise. They’re solved when the right people are engaged. This session explores how to identify and engage stakeholders, including unlikely ones, in ways that generate real buy-in, surface solutions you wouldn't have found alone, and distribute the weight of complex decisions more broadly. Leaders who do this well don't just build better programs; they build a network that sustains them.
This session explores the gap between having good ideas and having the authority to act on them, and what's available to leaders working inside systems they don't fully control. Participants map their own power bases, analyze the stakeholders standing between them and a priority they care about, and practice building a narrative that can move people that data alone won't reach.
