Master the art of enabling others to achieve shared purposes in uncertain conditions.
Learn how to recruit, develop, and organize leadership within communities.
Develop a powerful public narrative that motivates and mobilizes others.
Understand the difference between organizing and mobilizing, and why organizing is critical for sustainable change.
Gain practical skills in strategizing and implementing action plans for social movements.
Effective leadership in the 21st century requires not only the ability to lead but also the ability to organize and mobilize communities. Leadership, Organizing, and Action: Leading Change is a transformative online program that teaches participants how to harness the power of community resources, build strong leadership teams, and create sustainable strategies for social change. This program offers a unique opportunity to connect with leaders from around the world who are engaged in similar efforts to drive social and political change.
Led by Faculty Chair Marshall Ganz, Leadership, Organizing and Action: Leading Change is a 15-week online executive program designed to help you learn how to organize communities that can mobilize power to make change. This program offers a unique opportunity for those involved in organizing projects around the world to interact with others engaged in similar efforts, including leaders of civic associations, social movements, advocacy groups, and nonprofits.
Presented through an engaging online platform, Leadership, Organizing and Action explores how leadership is exercised using public narrative, building relationships, structuring leadership teams, strategizing, and action. Participants will experience engaging live lectures, readings, discussions, reflection exercises, and take part in an organizing project.
Your own critical analysis of your capacity to lead an organizing project is a key part of this program. An organizing project requires (a) mobilizing a constituency to (b) collaborate with each other to (c) achieve a real change. You and your peers will learn why this approach is the most effective in addressing problems of power. You'll also learn the value of enabling people to mobilize the power/resources they need to solve their problems. How do they do that? By working together or by challenging others who hold power over them.
