Executive Lab
Elevate your leadership skills to engage your board, staff, and volunteer.
Heighten your performance
Embrace the challenges and opportunities of the Executive Director role. Feel empowered to excel in both your day-to-day responsibilities and the strategic leadership of your organization.
Set yourself up for success. Build relationships with your peers in this cohort-driven program.
Discover and foster the leadership strengths that will accelerate your impact as a senior leader in the non-profit sector.
You are an ideal candidate if you are:
- Are currently in an Executive Director role
- Have 1+ years experience as an Executive Director
Program Outline
Executive Lab is a transformational program with activities, practical tools, and peer relationships to increase your effectiveness as an Executive Director.
The intense cohort program includes seven virtual sessions. During the classroom sessions, faculty members bring theory and best practice to life through activities, discussion, and peer learning. The learning doesn’t stop in the classroom though! Applying and reflecting on the concepts explored in class is a key step in elevating your leadership practice.
Application Deadline: 1 month before start date
Bursary Application Deadline: 6 weeks before course start date
Location: Online/Virtual
Cost: $2149 Non-Member / $1949 Member (includes $150 SDI 2.0 assessment)
Join Executive Lab to experience 21 hours of learning over seven weeks.
Program Schedule
To get the most from this program, please plan so that you can dedicate one day per week to the course.
October 16, 2024
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
October 23, 2024
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
October 30, 2024
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
November 6, 2024
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
November 13, 2024
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
November 20, 2024
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
November 27, 2024
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Meet Our Facilitators
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What will you learn?
Through interactive, in-class learning sessions, you develop critical leadership competencies across core areas of non-profit leadership.
- Leverage your personal strengths to effectively lead your organization
- Successfully work and collaborate with your board
- Apply tools to develop, articulate, and implement your strategic vision
- Explore techniques for developing a desired work culture
- Support and foster a safer environment for diverse team and board members
- Embrace productive conflict and diverse perspectives
- Enhance team performance at your organization
- Apply a coaching lens
- Build stronger relationships amongst your team, board, and community
What tools will you gain from this lab?
Executive Lab offers you a roadmap to take your leadership and organization to the next level.
Through Executive Lab you will:
- Develop a network of peers that understand your current challenges
- Access leading subject-matter experts and mentors
- Gain insights into how other Executive Directors and subject matter experts assess, approach and resolve issues
- Learn best practices, tools and strategies that you can apply in different situations/contexts
- Experience a combination of instruction, peer, and applied learning
Program Topics
Come away from this program with a concrete understanding of the following topics: