collective leadership

Collective Leadership involves uniting people to address complex issues through collaborative processes. Success is maximized by working collectively across diverse groups, emphasizing equity, and incorporating the voices of those most affected. Effective collective leaders prioritize trust-building, power navigation, deep engagement, and the development of impactful collaborative governance practices.

Online Course

foundations of collective impact

This course will introduce you to the key elements of the Collective Impact Framework. Over the course’s six, self-directed, modules you will be guided to assess and build readiness for Collective Impact within your community; and create an action plan to mobilize the multisector input and commitment needed to develop, implement, and sustain a successful Collective Impact Initiative.

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Resource Series

Collaborative Leadership and Governance Series

This collection of articles and papers will help inform both the process and people aspects of effective collaboration, and provide you with a wide range of practical ideas and resources for pushing your own work forward.

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meet the director

Liz Weaver is the Co-CEO of Tamarack Institute and leads our Skills for Change practice area. Skills for Change advances community change efforts by focusing on five strategic areas including collaboration, collective leadership, community engagement, community innovation and evaluating community impact. Liz is well-known for her thought leadership on collective impact and is the author of several popular academic papers on the topic. She is a co-catalyst partner with the Collective Impact Forum.

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Collective Leadership

Collective Governance

Building Your Adaptive Leadership Capacity

Navigating in a Post-Pandemic World

The Human Side of Collective Leadership: Exploring Power, Courage and Love

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The collective leadership premise is:

"If you bring the appropriate people together as peers, in constructive ways with good context and content information, they will create authentic visions and strategies for addressing the shared concerns of the organization and community."

David Chrislip and The Collaborative Leadership Fieldbook

Each component of the premise is important:

You must bring the appropriate people together as peers – the collaboration must be broadly inclusive
You must bring people together in constructive ways – design the process so that it can deal with different understandings of the issues, varying degrees of trust, and so that the process encourages people to work together
Good context and content information is critical to good decision-making – Involve citizens, specialists and field practitioners alike to co-create solutions