The Environmental Leadership Program supports emerging
environmental and social change practitioners eager to connect their
specialized work to larger environmental and social concerns. ELP is
committed to selecting Fellows that represents diversity of race and
ethnicity, gender, sector, sexual orientation, education levels,
professional background, values and traditions, and expertise.
Our Fellowship Programs offers intensive leadership and skill training,
regional and national networking opportunities, and time for personal
and professional reflection. Through multi-day retreats and optional
additional trainings, our curriculum helps emerging leaders hone their
leadership styles, improve their strategy and organizational
development, and strengthen their outreach to diverse constituencies.
As a learning organization itself, ELP regularly revisits and revises its
training curriculum based on feedback from its Fellows as well as to
meet the demands of practitioners. Our current curriculum will include:
Leading Across Difference, Building and Maintaining Learning
Organizations and High Functioning Teams, and Strength-based
Leadership and Network Weaving.
Leading Across Difference:
The challenges we face today are becoming increasingly complex and
will require multi-faceted approaches that not only bring together
diverse individuals but diverse organizations and sectors to collaborate.
This multi-day training looks at diversity, inclusion and leading across
difference from two perspectives – first from the individual perspective
and then from the work, organizational and societal perspective.
Participants will gain skills in understanding their own lenses in which
they participate in the world, strategies for working across differences
in communication styles and ways for organizations to become
increasingly diverse as a staff as well as diversifying their
constituencies.
While race is often the central focus of diversity conversations in the
United States, ELP seeks to be more inclusionary. This training imparts
1 the role of power and privilege across all facets of diversity for
race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, geography, sector and more.
Building and Maintaining Learning Organizations:
This multi-day training focuses on the organizational level to examine
the interactions between individuals and organizations. During this
training participants will learn and practice the necessary skill-sets for
being an active member of a Learning Organization. Participants will
also develop a “tool kit” of strategies that will allow them to drive
transformative change and continuous improvement in individuals and
organizations; and will gain tools for leading an effective Learning
Organization at any relevant scale (small team, department, division,
full organization, external stakeholders, etc.).
Strength-based Leadership and Network Weaving:
ELP believes individuals and organizations spend too much time
focused on what they lack, whether it be a larger budget, a bigger staff,
or particular skills, and spend too little time focused on what they do
have.
ELP’s strength-based leadership training helps individuals to identify
and focus on their strengths which we characterize as skills, knowledge,
attributes, and themes. Throughout this training individuals gain an
understanding of the power of shifting one’s focus from deficiency to
abundance. Additionally, individuals learn how to bring this information
and philosophy back to their organizations, working groups and teams –
regardless of where you are hierarchical in an organization focusing on
your strengths will significantly increase your efficiency, productivity
and happiness.
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