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
WEBINARLeaders Grounded in Justice and Liberation
This webinar is an introduction to embodying liberation practices. It is for social sector leaders who want to refine or refresh their liberation praxis.
Often in the field, we focus on moving forward justice and liberation practices in our community-facing work and forget that it’s just as important to center these practices with ourselves and our organizational cultures.
Justice and liberation are embodied experiences. Although we have not yet lived in a world centering liberation, we can find refuge in the creative practice of imagining that future reality.
Our work is grounded in our values
OUR VALUESTRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP“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.
LIBERATIONFreedom 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.
WELL-BEINGOur 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.
DEEP RELATIONSHIPSOur 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.
LEARNING THROUGH REFLECTIONThrough 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.
EMERGENCEEmergence 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.