Course Content
Evolving Your Leadership Style for Greater Impact – June 18, 2025: 10am to 1pm PST
Understanding leadership models and decision-making styles; being your authentic self while managing the needs and expectations of your staff, board, and external stakeholders.
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Pre-Work, Reflections, and Readings
The Executive Director’s Role in Program Innovation, Program Strategy, and Mission Impact – July 16, 2025: 10am to 1pm PST
Finding the right balance between leading, collaborating, empowering others, and delegating in the areas of program innovation, strategy, and mission impact.
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Preparation Guide
Strategic HR Leadership – August 20, 2025: 10am to 1pm PST
Navigating complex personnel and HR issues.
Managing Tensions between Fundraising, Financial Sustainability, Organizational Values & Mission Impact – September 17, 2025: 10am to 1pm PST
Making difficult decisions about: (1) whether to accept/pursue funding when the interests & priorities of your funders, board, and/or staff diverge; and (2) how to best focus your financial resources between urgent needs today vs. long-term sustainability.
Crisis Leadership – October 22, 2025:10am to 1pm PST
Proactive strategies for navigating and leading through unexpected crises, ensuring organizational resilience and continued service to vulnerable clients.
Ensuring Organizational Success for a Future with New Leadership – November 12, 2025: 10am to 1pm PST
What can you be doing now to prepare your organization and ensure the success of your successors (whether that leadership succession happens soon or many years later).
Strategic Leadership: Navigating the Now

Session 2 Preparation Guide

Executive Director’s Role in Program Innovation & Design

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Zoom Link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85895258941?pwd=1vPRbnJMR0qY5xasjrZatZU8i2upeP.1

Our next session will be on Wednesday, July 16th, from 10am to 1pm Pacific. We will meet via Zoom (see above for the link), This session on understanding the Executive Director’s Role in Program Innovation and Design will be taught by Martina Cucullu Lim, a former Executive Director with approximately 10 years of program innovation and design experience in the California legal services sector.

Training Objectives:

During this training we will explore what it means to work intentionally on three levels (tactical reality, strategy, and mission/purpose) and how that may impact your leadership style and/or role with respect to strategy and innovation. We will also briefly explore five theories of change in the legal services sector. You will have the opportunity to dive deep into a case study and explore executive leadership during times of crisis, identifying and creating alignment, and evaluating the role of organizational identity and community accountability in program innovation and design. At the end of the training, you will have an increased awareness of you and your team’s default levels of working when working intentionally and the various theories of change. Finally, you will have a better understanding of how to identify and execute your role in program innovation and design at your organization.

Prior to this session, please:

  1. Read and Review Community Agreements (2-4 minutes)
    Strategic Leadership Community Agreements .docx Reflect on which 2-3 (besides Confidentiality) you want to focus on or lean into during the session together because it may be challenging for you, important for you, or something that would benefit the group and yourself the most.
  2. Watch Measuring your social impact: Theory of Change (2-3 minutes)
  3. Review 5 Theories of Change – Legal Services (2-3 minutes)
  4. Familiarize yourself with and be prepared to discuss the
    Community Legal Bridge Case Study (7-9 minutes)
Exercise Files
Strategic Leadership Session 2 Prep Guide.pdf
Size: 196.02 KB
Strategic Leadership Community Agreements_fin.pdf
Size: 77.25 KB
5 Theories of Change – Legal Services.pdf
Size: 123.30 KB
Session 2 CLB Case Study.docx.pdf
Size: 89.58 KB
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