Institute for Collaborative Leadership

Intensive Leadership Coaching -for experienced & rising leaders-10 months | 3 hrs/month

11 PRINCIPLES of EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

Deep Dive Leadership Coaching for experienced & rising leaders

ICL offers 3 Advanced Leadership

Coaching Programs:

Becoming a better leader: exploring and applying the 11 Principles of Effective Collaborative Leadership *REGISTRATION is OPEN*
Building a strong collaboration: understanding and applying Collaboration’s Life Cycle & the Collaboration Audit
Learning what works: advanced examination of Collaborating vs Networking For Aligned Impact

10-months 3 hours/month

limited to 5-8 participants/section

CONSULTING SERVICES

ICL also provides consultative support to nonprofit, philanthropic, education and government organizations. We will help you

convene and build new collaborations or strategically aligned networks
troubleshoot, repair and strengthen existing collective efforts (including boards, commissions, networks, collaborations, etc.).

LEARN MORE ABOUT ICL's limited 10-month: Deep Dive LEADERSHIP COACHING PROGRAM

Training is at the heart of Professional Growth & Impactful Leadership

Intensive Leadership Coaching -for experienced & rising leaders-10 months | 3 hrs/month

ICL Professional Development Workshops build leadership skills and exercise the muscles needed for impactful collaboration at all levels of your organization or network.

We'll consult with you extensively to tailor training to meet your precise leadership and organizational needs.

Topics for training include:

LEAD FOR A CHANGE! Tackling the questions: Are you a Leader? Plus the Why's, How's & What-for's of Public Leadership.
COLLABORATION & NETWORKING for ALIGNED IMPACT: What structure will work best to achieve your collective goal?
Collaborations' Life Cycle
Understanding & Using ICL's Collaboration Audit
Introduction: 11 Principles of Effective Collaborative Leadership
Working Retreats for NEW Collaborations
RENEWAL Retreats for Existing Collaborations

I want to work with ICL to build a Training Program to meet our needs

When You Want To Kickstart Your Group & Make Folks Think

Intensive Leadership Coaching -for experienced & rising leaders-10 months | 3 hrs/month

When You Want To Kickstart Your Group & Make Folks Think

ICL Founder, Hank Rubin is an Inspiring & Award Winning Speaker & Presenter. Originally trained as a community organizer and teacher, Hank's passion and experience as a public leader and antiracism activist in nonprofit, philanthropic, corporate and academic roles breathe life, wit and intelligence into his keynotes and panel presentations.

He'll make you think, challenge your assump-tions, and leave you with new tools and reflections for your leadership.

Speaking topics include:

Lead for a Change!
Are you a Collaborative Leader?
How to be an Antiracist Leader
Handling Leadership Saboteurs
Challenges of Seeing Thru the Eyes of Those You Would Lead
11 Principles of Effective Collaborative Leadership

Let's find out more about getting hank out here to speak

About ICL

Together, in collaboration, we can make change happen.

Our History

The Institute for Collaborative Leadership was founded in 1992 as a nonprofit national research, training and consulting center, supporting collaborations and collaborative leaders that benefit the lives of children, families and communities.

Original Board members included: Dr. Willard Boyd (then president of the Chicago Field Museum), Dr. Paul Houston (executive director of the American Association of School Administrators), Toni Smith (then managing partner at Spencer Stuart), David Wilhelm (later chair of the Democratic National Committee), and Dr. Hank Rubin (then head of Roosevelt University's Public Administration Program).

Our founding mission: "... to construct a rigorous knowledge-base and understanding of collaboration so that education and public sector leaders can learn to build, manage, measure and repair collective efforts that are essential for achieving progressive public outcomes."

ICL improves collaboration and shapes the larger conversation. Our international contributions to understanding collaborative leadership and collective impact is documented in dozens of books, scholarly and popular articles, chapters, presentations and endorsements.

Want to build collaboration for collective impact?

Our goal is to improve the collective impact of public leaders and partnerships dedicated to benefiting children, families, communities and schools.

Leadership makes all the difference in the world; collaborative leadership is what we have to do to make that difference together!

ICL will help you convene, engage and motivate the right people in the right way within a sustainable collaboration designed to accomplish change.

ICL will ...

- help you plan and convene a new start-up collaboration ... and then stay on call to help you keep it strong.

- help you strengthen or reboot a collective effort that's grown tired or ineffectual... and then stay on call if you need help keeping it vital.

- help you establish a Collective Impact initiative … and understand its relationship to collaboration.

- be the catalyst, speaker, facilitator you need to launch or energize, regroup or reorganize, plan or audit your collaboration.

The Book ...

"Collaborative Leadership" Hank Rubin, handbook for nonprofit, philanthropic & education leaders

Dr. Carl C. Bell, formerly Univ. of Illinois and President & CEO, Community Mental Health Council

". . . (Rubin is) right on target for the thoughtful nonprofit leader . . . will make you think and help you succeed!"

Robert J. Danzig, author of The Leader Within You and former Senior Executive of Hearst Newspapers

". . . reminds me of my good pal Dr. Earnest Boyer . . . (with) that special forward-looking thinking of a great collaborative leader."

Sandy Boyd, former president of the University of Iowa and the Field Museum of Natural History

". . . outstanding, comprehensive, insightful, clear and brief . . . "

US Congressman Danny K. Davis, US House of Representatives, 7th District, Illinois

". . . Hank is, once again, at the portal of a new area of (leadership development) . . . Lord knows, we need to understand, learn, and teach young and aspiring public leaders how to build and manage their relationships with other public leaders."

Peter Carparelli for The School Superintendents Association, The School Administrator

"Hank Rubin is at it again. Collaboration Skills for Educators and Nonprofit Leaders ... is a little volume with a potentially big payoff for thoughtful practitioners.

The focus here is on accomplishing tangible results, making a difference and completing our work in the public realm. Rubin sees our jobs as revolving 'around building villages of support to raise children.' His book can help us be successful in that mission."

Anne Wescott Dodd for National Association of Secondary School Principals. NASSP Bulletin

"This reader-friendly and useful book details convincingly the need for collaboration in educational leadership and provides practical suggestions and tools for leaders who choose to collaborate to accomplish important goals they cannot achieve on their own. "

BONUS: Who is a collaborative leader? (definition)

“You are a collaborative leader once you have accepted responsibility for building - or helping to ensure the success of - a heterogeneous team to accomplish a shared purpose. Your tools are (1) the purposeful exercise of your behavior, communication, and organizational resources in order to affect the perspective, beliefs, and behaviors of another person (generally a collaborative partner) to influence that person's relationship with you and your collaborative enterprise and (2) the structure and climate of an environment that supports the collaborative relationship.”

From ICL'sbestselling book Collaborative Leadership:

a relational model

devoted to collective impact

since 1992.

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