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Meet the Pilot Cohort of The Leadership Lab: Collaborating with Your Board
The Leadership Lab: Collaborating With Your Board is a cohort-based development program for senior executives and other senior leaders. From November 2024 through April 2025, cohort members will master leadership practices toward effectively partnering with their Boards, analyze successful governance practices, reflect in individual and small group coaching, and develop an implementation plan to improve the efficacy and engagement of their Boards.
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Leading Edge helps Jewish organizations improve their workplace culture and leadership so that they can better achieve their missions.
For Executives
Explore leadership development programs like Leading Executives, and other programs and resources for executives changing the Jewish world.
For Organizational Culture
Make your organization a “leading place to work” with surveys, tools, and the support of our “People Pro Collective” community.
For Boards
Strengthen your Jewish nonprofit’s board leadership and the board-professional partnership with resources and programs like the Board Member Institute.
Resource Library
Sharing useful, rigorous resources on culture, talent, and leadership.
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GuideBoardsBoard Service Essentials: A Guide For Board Members
Created for board members starting a new term, this guide covers everything you need to know to be an effective nonprofit board member, including knowledge of governance responsibilities, a commitment to ethical conduct, the ability to think strategically about organizational trajectory, and dedication to fostering an inclusive culture of open dialogue and accountability.
GuideBoardsBoard Leadership Essentials: A Guide For Board Chairs
Serving as a board chair is a demanding role, but also an incredibly rewarding one. Designed for board chairs who are beginning a new term as chair, this guide is a starting point and resource to help enhance the leadership of those committed to leading effective boards.
ArticleOrganizational CultureResources for Managing Teams with Diverse Viewpoints
Disagreements on a team about passionately held beliefs can be painful. But when organizations manage diversity of viewpoints well, it can be a superpower. This topic is sensitive, complex, and difficult, but here are some resources that might help.
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Leading Edge is:
A think tank
Our tools and resources drive culture and leadership change in the Jewish nonprofit sector.
A platform
Our leadership development programs and communities of practice connect and enable amazing leaders.
A laboratory
Our research, surveys, and pilot programs create and test interventions that make organizations more effective.
The reason we are prepared to handle this current situation is because we have now been paying attention to culture for a long time. This isn't new to us anymore. Leading Edge changed the conversation to help us focus on culture.”