The Evolving Role and Expectations of Leadership

Jakada Imani, CEO of The Management Center, leads a discussion focused on the evolving role and expectations of leadership.

Since 2006, TMC has worked with hundreds of leading organizations fighting for progressive social change, helping social justice leaders—more than 67,000 individuals—learn how to build and run more equitable, sustainable, and results-driven organizations. TMC's training approach is always hands-on, and committed to providing tools, skills, and resources that can be put to use immediately.

During the webinar, Imani spends time exploring:

• How have expectations of managers, leaders, and organizations shifted over the last five-plus years, and how might they continue to shift?

• How can effective management practices and systems help create a sense of teamwork, inclusion, and belonging throughout your organization?

• Which resources, tools, and trainings can support growth on this topic?

About the Speaker

Jakada Imani is a spiritually-rooted coach and trainer with more than 20 years experience working in social and economic justice movements. He served for six years as executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, taking over from the center's founder, Van Jones. Before becoming the executive director, he served as the lead strategist for some of the organization’s most-high-profile campaigns. He was a lead team member in the successful efforts to stop the construction of one of the nation’s largest juvenile halls—an enormous, “Super Jail for Kids.”

He also led two successful, statewide ballot-measure campaigns (“No on Prop 6,” in 2008, and, “No on Prop 23,” in 2010). Over the last two decades, Imani has worked on a range of issues, including racial and economic justice, workers’ rights, tenant organizing, and green jobs. In 2013, he received a ChangeMaker Fellowship from Pacific School of Religion, where he served for two years leading a center for spiritual and social transformation. He is the father of four powerful and creative daughters.

Also featured in today’s webinar: Anne Marie Burgoyne, managing director of philanthropy at Emerson Collective.

Presentation Materials

• Webinar Presentation Slides