The Adaptive Food Systems Leader: Managing Projects for Lasting Change
As nonprofits, community-based organizations, government agencies, and others seek to make progress on the civic challenges communities face, they must navigate complex systems and intervene skillfully to catalyze systemic change through their projects. It takes time, however, to identify and articulate the deep-rooted issues at the core of our communities before jumping to solutions, strategies, and tactics. It takes acts of intentional leadership, and it is critical to (re)assess what constitutes “leadership” as we contribute to the larger movement to transform our food system, especially in uncertain times.
This free, 4-session course explores the traditional components of project management and incorporates Adaptive Leadership, which offers an approach to achieving large-scale impact through complex systems navigation within a shifting and changing landscape. As a “how” for project management, Adaptive Leadership differentiates the types of civic challenges we face to strategically cultivate leadership approaches and create the environment in which these approaches can be applied. This is an applied course, so participants will translate concepts learned to the context of their current or prospective project. Each session will build upon concepts from the previous session, following a format of engagement among participants to warm-up, introduction of project management components and corresponding leadership concepts and tools, interactive application exercises, and time for reflection. Learn more
