Leading Change
Join us for Leadership Matters, a free lunch-hour webinar series designed to bridge the gap between leadership theory and real-world practice. Each session brings together faculty, students, and community members to explore how leadership can address today's challenges.
Presented by: Trent University Library & Archives, the Trent Leadership & Democracy Lab, and the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies.
Based on the Marshall Ganz/Harvard framework - proven in social movements, environmental advocacy, and community organizing - this workshop builds leadership skills rooted in a powerful premise: effective leadership doesn't come from authority, but from the ability to inspire action, forge relationships, and mobilize collective resources toward shared goals.
Participants will learn to:
- craft compelling public narratives through strategic storytelling;
- build and sustain successful teams and engaged constituencies; and
- structure strategy and tactics that generate power for change.
Drawing from Ganz's organizing principles and real-world examples from public health, care work and political campaigns, this session equips participants with practical tools to lead from a foundation of relationship and hope and design campaigns that win transformative, lasting change.