3 Leadership Learning Opportunities
Roll up your sleeves for dynamic learning that combines didactic, evidence-based instruction with hands-on, experiential learning - to get results. Magda braids strong content knowledge, extensive practical experience, and earned wisdom for great leadership training with emerging and established leaders. Her teaching practice is grounded in formal training and professional certifications (e.g. Harvard Kennedy School for Adaptive Leadership, Ex Fabula for Storytelling, Discovery Learning, Inc. assessment tools). She is at her best building up leadership for (adaptive) change, and through storytelling.
1. Leadership + Change
Effective leadership requires sharp awareness, tools and strategies for creating, responding to, and sustaining change. In this workshop, participants explore the complex, difficult dynamics likely to manifest in times of change. They gain a deeper understanding of roles and tools leaders need to guide and navigate successful transitions. They learn to leverage their and others’ preferences and styles for dealing with change. This workshop works best for leaders working in organizations and systems committed to healthy people and vital communities. Check out what’s she’s written about Creating and Sustaining Change to learn more.
Recent Workshops:
American Public Health Association Leadership Institute webinar (2018), Essential Skills for Sustaining and Maintaining Change, with APHA Past President Joyce Gaufin.
Medical College of Wisconsin Leadership Academy workshops (2015–2018), Leading Change.
Milwaukee Business Journal, Women of Influence Symposium workshop (2017), Soaring Through Change.
2. Powerful Storytelling
Leaders who know how to harness the power of stories, especially in their own voice, can become more credible, inspiring, and persuasive agents of change. Storytelling can crack open a space for difficult conversations about divides across race and class, color and creed, gender and identity. This interactive workshop covers the basics of effective storytelling for social change, anchored by stories from participants’ own lives and work for health and justice. It offers safe space to practice storytelling skills, with affirmation and useful feedback. Together, participants explore how some old stories can preserve persistent narratives, and how telling powerful new stories can spark breakthrough understanding and action. A StoryCircle can follow the workshop for continued peer learning and practice.
Recent Workshops:
CityMatCH and National Healthy Start Conference (2017). Storytelling for Community Vitality.
Stanford School of Medicine, Pediatric Advocacy Program (2018). Storytelling for Child Health Advocacy.
3. Adaptive Leadership + Practice
According to its co-creators from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government - Ron Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky- adaptive leadership is the practice of mobilizing people to tackle tough challenges and thrive. Adaptive Leadership offers frameworks, tools and strategies for those navigating rough waters in pursuit of a collective purpose, in concert with their deepest values. Grounded by Heifetz et al’s classic field book, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, and Magda’s ongoing work with the Adaptive Leadership Network, this hands-on training enables participants to get from theory to practice, and be readier to confront the really hard adaptive challenges inherent to social change. Participants will better understand leadership and authority, power and influence, adaptive and technical challenges, balcony and dance floor observations, experimenting and taking smart risks. And they can practice really giving stuff up, staying connected with what most matters, and not doing it alone. Magda’s AL workshops are individually designed to fit the context and considerations of participating leaders.
Recent Workshops: Adaptive Leadership for the Public’s Health. Great Plains Leadership Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (2017, 2018).