Transform your library culture and operations by prioritizing leadership training this spring. Learn how to build and maintain your board relationships and how to infuse equity into every part of your library leadership, from hiring, onboarding, and retention to personnel management, budgeting, and more.

Don't miss the chance to learn alongside other leaders in our upcoming courses: Equity-Centered Library Leadership and Library Boards Crash Course.

Course Overview: Library Boards Crash Course: How to Create and Maintain Successful Board Relationships -

January 31

Continuity and successful relationships between library leaders and boards are more important than ever. This crash course will help you learn tangible skills to build and maintain successful relationships with your board. You will learn how to navigate board dynamics and expectations without sacrificing the support of staff, particularly your frontline folks. This crash course will discuss tactics for embodying the bridge between sometimes competing interests or expectations, and how to do so equitably.

Roles, Expectations, and Boundaries: How to Cultivate Relationships with Your Board led by: Valerie Kocin

How to Engage Your Board in Your Advocacy and EDI Efforts led by: Melanie Huggins

Course Overview: Equity-Centered Library Leadership

The last few years have proven that leadership in the workplace must adapt and create work cultures with shared values in order to attract and retain top talent. In this course, you will learn to develop whole-person, healing-centered leadership skills to help you assess your current leadership style and organization, plan and prepare for organizational change, and foster and maintain an inclusive work environment through wellbeing, evaluation, and accountability practices. All of these topics will be taught with an equity lens that prioritizes radical empathy, vulnerability, and justice in your leadership practices.

After you attend this interactive online course and workshop, you’ll be able to:

• Critically examine where you are on your DEI leadership journey and plan for next steps

• Conduct an equity assessment on your organization 

• Create an equity-centered strategic plan for your organization

• Lead organizational change through iterative and data-driven processes

• Revise your HR practices (hiring, retaining, budget, etc.) to match DEI best/promising practices 

• Lead with emotional intelligence and vulnerability

• Manage staff with empathetic and trauma-informed practices

• Participate in conflict resolution and difficult feedback conversations from a people- and equity-centered approach 

Group Discounts 

Our courses are perfect for your team!

Group rates available now!

Request a discount for groups of 3 or more 

and work with your colleagues on a project for your library.

Purchase 15 or more registrations and apply them across multiple courses.

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Spring Courses