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Interaction Associates Named a Top 20 Leadership Training Company
IISC is proud to announce that our partner organization, Interaction Associates, has been selected by TrainingIndustry.com as one of their 2012 Top 20 Leadership Training Companies. IA was selected based on their ability to demonstrate thought leadership, industry innovation, breadth of programs and delivery methods offered, strength of clients and geographic reach. The award recognizes the organizations that encompass all of the traits and services found in a great leadership training company. For more details visit TrainingIndustry.com.
If You Till It, They Will Come: Nurturing Collective Leadership
IISC Senior Associates Curtis Ogden and Gibrán Rivera explored stories of and practices for creating the conditions to unleash leader-full momentum that embodies and leads to the social change we seek. Given the complexity of the issues we face and the diversity of perspectives in our various systems, it has been recognized that we cannot rely on individual, expert, or command-and-control leadership to move us forward. We must unleash more robust and adaptive collective intelligence. In the webinar, Curtis and Gibrán shared their thoughts about how to create the conditions for emergent and collective leadership to move us in more just and life-affirming directions. Check out the webinar slides and two follow-up blog posts: Gibrán’s and Curtis’.
Strategies for Designing Social Change: Webinar (free!) with IISC's Melinda Weekes and IA's Ashley Welch
Join IISC’s Melinda Weekes and our colleague from Interaction Associates (IA), Ashley Welch on Wednesday, December 14 at 1:00 p.m. EST in exploring ways leaders in any sector can succeed when leading change. This webinar is part of IA’s “LeaderLens” series which regularly features Ashley Welch in conversation with leading thinkers and experts across a broad spectrum of leadership issues. Click here to register or access archived LeaderLens conversations.
Racial Justice and Health Equity Initiative at the Boston Public Health Commission
IISC’s Cynthia Silva Parker and Jen Willsea have been working with the Boston Public Health Commission on several tracks within their Racial Justice and Health Equity Initiative. Most recently, BPHC staff piloted a two day workshop for staff that makes the connections between racism, health outcomes and the role of a public health agency in promoting health equity. IISC guided the internal team that developed the workshop content and will be facilitating a training for trainers process for BPHC employees.