Session Dates: Program Fee: Program Director: Register Now
September 2024 - February 2025 $2500 Kathelon Toliver Download Brochure
Take Your Career to the Next Level with our Leadership Development Program
Learn, Collaborate and Shape Your Own Experience
Participants can expect opportunities to apply learning, engage in challenging and fruitful collaborations, and to personally drive their own learning with the support of expert faculty and coaches.
About Fred Taylor
When Fred Taylor felt a call to community activism in 1967, he began volunteering with the newly formed For Love of Children (FLOC). Just one year later, Fred was chosen to be FLOC’s first Executive Director, where he remained for the next 37 years. During his time with FLOC, Fred successfully shut down Junior Village, an orphanage that was exposed for harboring the abuse of thousands of children in the early 1960s and early 70s.
He led the effort to redefine how D.C. met the needs of its homeless and dependent children and changed the whole system of care, convincing the government that children could be helped to remain with their families or foster care instead of orphanages like Junior Village.
The Howard School of Social Work is proud to offer the Fred Taylor, Roll Away the Stone, Leadership Program to carry on his legacy through his family's generous endowment.
Testimonial
"For me, under the black perspective, affirmation, verification, diversity is where I felt like I was able to really see ME throughout this project. And it has allowed me in my professional setting to look at things under a different set of lenses. I think some areas of my mission and vision here at work has become more intentional in terms of how it relates back to the community that I serve."
- V. Hunt, Southern Maryland Tri-County Community Action Committee (MD)
Classroom Overview
In part one of this program participants can expect to build a foundation of knowledge and understanding regarding the core concepts of leadership effectiveness, all applied to being a human service/non-profit leader. Participants will experience guest lecturers and the opportunity to complete a 360-degree leadership effectiveness assessment to inform their own leadership development planning. Through expert-led sessions, participants will explore a range of leadership topics pertinent to leading in today’s organization, including:
- Conscious Leadership 2.0: Leading Beyond Bias
- Leadership Styles and Assessments
- The Culture of Power and Influence
- Systems Thinking and Disruptive Leadership
- Cultural Intelligence
- Leadership Resilience: Managing the Emotional Journey
- The Authentic Servant Leader
Applied Learning Overview
Building on the core learning of leadership concepts from part one, participants’ second semester will provide real-life “learning laboratories” in which to apply their learning. In small groups, participants will work collaboratively to examine a present-day social service challenge, identify solutions using their newfound learning, and present a white paper to their colleagues. These learning labs, mirroring what it is like to lead in today’s organizations, will feature tools as well as group coaching to spark the application of learning.
Self-Select Micro Learning Labs
Throughout the second semester, participants will also self-select two micro-learning laboratories to attend as electives while also having the opportunity to listen to guest speakers from the social work community. Examples of the micro-learning sessions are below:
• Social And Racial Justice Marketing: Brand Management And Social Media
• Leadership Service And Excellence For Remote Teams: Examining Culture, Methods, And Outcomes
• Financial Excellence In Nonprofit Leadership: Culture, Resources, And Sound Decision Making
• Business Analytics: Using Data To Create Your Legacy
• Intrapreneurship And Authenticity: Creating Meaning And Purpose From Within
• Planning And Implementing Your Vision
