Leadership Principles Lab

Lab Outline

Leadership Principles strengthens your individual leadership skills and personal attributes to positively impact the effectiveness of your organization.​

This 3-day lab is a unique professional development offering for non-profit leaders seeking to increase self-awareness and learn about values-based leadership.​

Suggested participants:

You are an ideal candidate if you:​

• are currently working in the non-profit sector and thinking about how to create a more meaningful. experience for yourself and others​
• are responsible for leading individuals and teams to deliver results​.
• are hoping to take on further leadership responsibilities in your career​.

Location: Online / Virtual

Cost: $649 Non-member | $584 Member​

Meet Our Facilitators

Sunaina Sharma, Ph.D., LL.M., LL.B., ICF MCC, (She/Her)

Sunaina Sharma empowers leaders to navigate change with resilience, purpose, and strategic insight through self-awareness, coaching, and AI technologies for sustainable growth. Her diverse background in STEM, law, administration, coaching, and leadership development has equipped her to inspire leaders in harnessing strengths, navigating complexities, and driving innovative solutions. Her framework integrates AI-enhanced insights with human intuition to develop adaptable strategic leaders with clear purpose. AI accelerates reflection while maintaining human connection. After a cancer diagnosis, Sunaina decided to make a shift in her professional life to pursue her true calling: “empowering others to embrace their entire being.”

Her clients rave her empathetic listening, problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills and walk away with tools, techniques, attributes, skills and knowledge necessary to excel in their chosen disciplines. Sunaina has extensive experience coaching, facilitating & developing high achieving professionals in academia, healthcare, law, STEM in public and non-profit sectors. Her notable organizational clients include Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BC Cancer Medical Staff Engagement Society, Provincial (BC) Health Services Authority, Drs. of BC, BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, BC Centre for Disease Control Foundation, YWCA, Canucks Place, the Children’s Hospice, Atira Women’s Resources Society.

Dr. Elisa Chavez, CCMP™, (She/Her)

With a life’s purpose of service, I am a Certified Change Management Professional™ with over 25 years of increasingly responsible positions in management, educational and leadership development programs, facilitation and course delivery, specializing in organizational change and organizational development. Major strengths include:

1. Expert level experience facilitating transformational learning experiences in a variety of industries in Canada and US
2. Highly skilled at moving individuals, teams and organizations through change and transition
3. Well-versed in adult education theory and group dynamics
4. Proven results improving performance through organizational development interventions
5. Highly skilled coach and program/project manager
6. Hold a number of degrees and certificates including a doctorate in Organizational Leadership

Elisa loves living in Squamish, BC. In her spare time she can be found reading the latest Stephen King novel, rooting for her beloved Seattle Seahawks, or volunteering at the local foodbank and Hospice Society.

Lab Topics

Leadership Principles focuses on two leadership attributes: leads self and develops talent:

Day 3 – Leading teams

• Cohesive teams​
• Trust​
• Productive conflict​