Leadership, Governance, & Coaching
Change Elemental accelerates flexible approaches to leadership that enable individuals, organizations, and networks to more fluidly and effectively respond to, and influence, shifting conditions over time.
Change Elemental supports individuals, teams, and boards within organizations and networks in growing their leadership skills and capacities across a spectrum of shared leadership and power, enabling them to more fluidly and effectively respond to and influence shifting conditions, advancing strategies and approaches that build the future we want while living it as much as possible today.
Whether we are engaging in individual coaching, peer and team coaching, leadership change and transition processes, or facilitating leadership cohorts, we cultivate, strengthen, and nurture leadership at multiple levels by supporting people in deepening their capacity for liberating transformation, individually and collectively. Together, we ground in purpose and power, address group dynamics such as power and privilege, and tend to the being and doing of liberating leadership. Together, we develop and evolve the structures, systems, and practices that enable people to move with depth and agility, increase impact, and build power in the short and long term.
Offerings
- Engage in coaching partnerships with individuals and teams working in a variety of roles across organizations, movements, issues, geographies, and identities. To learn more about our coaching approach, grounded in love, liberation, compassion, and creativity, please visit here.
- Design and facilitate cross-issue, geography, identity, and sector leadership cohorts, supporting leaders to deepen shared analysis of and practice in liberatory transformation, to be better equipped to meet each moment as it arises, and to develop strategic connections and solidarity (this includes our Prefiguring Futures Lab).
- Accompany leadership transitions and strengthen leadership teams, including coaching leaders and teams in organizations, networks, and philanthropic institutions.
- Facilitate boards, governance teams, and trustees in understanding how they can strategically enliven their mandates, structures, relationships, and approaches to enact values- and vision-aligned change.
- Improve management and supervision by focusing on lived organizational experience and building organizational teams that model the future we want as much as possible in the present.
To learn more about our approach to coaching, see here.
Artist credit: Lexx Valdez | Amplifier
Photo credit: Ted Eytan | CC BY-SA 2.0“Reflecting on four years of co-directorship, [Change Elemental made clear that] leadership structures are not good or bad, not making it seem like our values of social justice and gender equity didn’t fail. They saw that we were doing it for a good cause and for the mission of the organization. Also, we dreamed up new horizons for how leadership could look…there was freedom in identifying what did work, and imagining what could work now—we went into all the possibilities. Being held by someone who’d seen a lot of structures and could look at the pros and cons of each helped me navigate through that in an emotional way. The objective outside perspective could think rationally and pull away some of the emotional baggage. We could unwind what we attached ourselves to with freedom and open positivity.”
Francesco Collaborative
