What
These are, dare we say it again, unprecedented times for leaders. We are being asked to respond thoughtfully when the environment keeps telling us to react to fix problem after immediate problem. Our teams are struggling under the weight of the work and the always present fear of significant loss to self or to those we care about.
Through new content learning, highly interactive exercises, individual reflection, small group learning and facilitated large group discussions, this workshop will expand beyond the challenge of the day and leave participants feeling a little lighter and a whole lot more prepared for what is the new state of play. Case studies will be provided by participants, offering the group an opportunity to consult with one another and see the relationships between issues and leaders that they may not have recognized previously.
Are you a regional leader who seeks fresh approaches, skills, and partners to make progress on meaningful missions in the face of unrelenting change and moment-by-moment impacts on their mental health and their teams’ capacity? Sign up today and start charting a route through the chaos that surrounds us.
Schedule:
9-9:30am: Check-in and Networking
9:30am-12pm: Workshop
Speaker Bio
Mikaela Seligman, MPA, Certified Leadership Coach
Founder + Principal, Lumin/Us Leadership
Mikaela Seligman is on this planet to be a guide, coach, teacher, and partner to fierce and compassionate people, groups, and organizations who have chosen to advance missions that matter and seek skills and practices to do so.
Mikaela helps clients go where it can be hard to go alone, illuminating the path from awareness to diagnosis to action – first seeing the intractable challenges in new and productive ways, and then mobilizing peers as partners with new tools to collectively address identified challenges.
For 30+ years, Mikaela has founded, led in, and consulted to mission-based organizations - small local nonprofits, public schools, large national affiliate organizations, government, philanthropy, and organized labor. In 2023, she founded Lumin/Us Leadership, an integrated coaching and consulting practice guiding mission-driven leaders and teams in wholehearted and adaptive growth and transformation. Over her career, her leadership roles have included elementary school classroom teacher and school founder; executive director and c-suite team member; school board and national advisory group member.
Mikaela graduated from Boston University and Harvard University’s Kennedy School where she focused on leadership and adult development. In addition, she received her coaching certification from Georgetown University and has completed training with The Strozzi Institute, The Embody Lab, Interaction Institute for Social Change, People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, Race Matters, The Racial Equity Institute, and Rockwood Leadership Institute. She is always learning and integrating new approaches in her practice, as she encourages her clients to do.
She lives in Washington DC with her husband and two boys.
