We created the Public Leadership Network (PLN) because we believe that regardless of where public leaders sit, there is an opportunity to amplify their leadership impact.
Focused on building and strengthening existing and new leadership skills, developed within a supportive community of learning, the PLN equips public leaders to lead their current and future workforces, while navigating today’s complex challenges.
Public Leadership Network Leadership Training Classes
Unlock and Accelerate Potential: Assessment and Coaching Services
- Overview: Benefit from personalized individual and/or team assessments, followed by expert coaching sessions to gain a deep understanding of your results. Your dedicated coach will collaborate with you to develop and implement a customized plan based on the insights gained.
- PLN Pillar: Guiding High-Performing Teams, Developing Self Awareness
- Time Commitment and Format: Variable
Price: Starting at $399 - Launch Date: July 10, 2023
Facilitating Engaging, Impactful Meetings
- Overview: Meetings say a lot about your organization’s climate—how you make decisions, how you share new insights, and how you build relationships. In this webinar, you’ll hear from a panel of facilitation experts on how to make the most of your meeting time and promote more engaging, impactful, and actionable meetings.
- PLN Pillar: Leading Change
- Time Commitment and Format: A 90-minute live webinar
- Price: No charge!
- Launch Date: September 28, 2023
Creative Problem Solving for Public Sector Leaders
- Overview: A recent poll found that 35% of employees believe they had only a few opportunities per year to be creative in their work (Gallup, 2017). In this PLN offering, senior consultants and creative thinking experts will explore how to tap into every day creative problem-solving.
- PLN Pillar: Tapping into Innovative Thinking
- Time Commitment and Format: A 90-minute live webinar
- Price: No charge!
- Launch Date: October 19, 2023
Amplify Your Leadership
- Overview: Join a cohort-based experience to increase leadership self-awareness, develop teams, build constructive climates, and develop habits of continuous leadership development.
- PLN Pillar: Developing Leadership Self-Awareness
- Time Commitment and Format: 11 weeks of live sessions and self-paced modules in a cohort-based setting
- Price: $1,499
- Launch Date: August 28, 2023
Building Positive Connections with Public Institutions
- Overview: Public leaders are challenged to build partnerships with their communities and other institutions (government, non-profit, foundation, etc.). This asynchronous course helps demystify for members of the community how to build relationships/connections with those public institutions.
- PLN Pillar: Working Across Boundaries
- Time Commitment and Format: Self-paced, fully asynchronous module
- Price: $49
- Launch Date: October 2, 2023
Building Cohesive Teams
- Overview: Based on Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team framework, this course will explore five key behaviors that allow supervisors to empower their team and shape new behaviors. The five main components that the course will discuss include: trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results.
- PLN Pillar: Guiding High-Performing Teams
- Time Commitment and Format: 5-week course experience with virtual, live sessions and self-paced modules
- Price: $599
- Launch Date: November 13, 2023
Turning Conflict into Constructive Conversations: Learning to Lean In
- Overview: Explore and practice a framework with new communication skills for identifying and holding crucial conversations in a variety of daily situations including 1:1 and in teams. This course will also include a DISC assessment, report, facilitated debrief about results, and a 1:1 coaching session.
- PLN Pillar: Guiding High-Performing Teams
- Time Commitment and Format: 6 weeks of live sessions and self-paced modules in a cohort-based setting
- Price: $799
- Launch Date: October 2, 2023
Making Resilience a Reality
- Overview: This course will discuss the impact resilience has in the public sector workplace, build self-awareness to expand your current mental models about resiliency, and explore actionable strategies under the following key pillars of resilience: purpose, self-awareness and mindfulness, critical thinking skills, active/constructive relationships, self-care, and bouncing back/stamina.
- PLN Pillar: Developing Self-Awareness
- Time Commitment and Format: 6 weeks of live sessions and self-paced modules
- Price: $799
- Launch Date: October 16, 2023
Newly Elected Officials Bootcamp
- Overview: Join a cohort of other newly elected local and state government officials to gain the knowledge and leadership skills to create positive change in your communities. This bootcamp provides a comprehensive strategy for working with fellow board members, government staff, and the community to create greater impact.
- PLN Pillar: Leading Change
- Time Commitment and Format: Cohort model with a virtual or in-person option
- Price: $349 (virtual) and $499 (in-person)
- Launch Date: December, 2023
PLN Class Schedule
July 10, 2023
Unlock and Accelerate Potential: Assessment and Coaching Services
August 28, 2023
Amplify Your Leadership
September 28, 2023
Facilitating Engaging, Impactful Meetings
October 2, 2023
Turning Conflict into Constructive Conversations: Learning to Lean In
October 2, 2023
Building Positive Connections with Public Institutions
October 16, 2023
Making Resilience a Reality
October 19, 2023
Creative Problem Solving for Public Sector Leaders
November 13, 2023
Building Cohesive Teams
December 2023
Newly Elected Officials Bootcamp
Who is the PLN for?
We define public sector leaders as those serving their communities within government, education, non-profits, and foundations. The PLN is designed for any level of leader—emerging to seasoned—from any public sector organization. Bringing together any level leader across all types of U.S. public sector organizations ensures diversity of ideas and maximizes the opportunity to learn and grow from different experiences.
Why You Should Join The PLN
Amplify your leadership skills to better serve your community.
- PLN leadership training provides public leaders with access to the relevant resources needed to address today’s biggest demands and challenges.
- We equip public leaders with the practical skills needed to boost their leadership excellence to better lead their teams, organizations, and communities.
Connect with a community of ongoing support and learning.
- You become a member of the PLN when you take one of our training sessions.
- PLN members a part of an active, diverse community of other public sector leaders committed to continuous learning and development.
- You will receive regular invitations to webinars and access to thought leadership blogs and articles.
Receive access to relevant and actionable course content.
- PLN provides public leaders with the development opportunities necessary to amplify their leadership impact now and in the future.
- All material is relevant and timely, following a proven path for successful learning – introduction of concepts, skills practice, observation and refinement, and the adoption of new ways of leading.
Fit meaningful course work into your busy schedule.
- The PLN is a fully virtual leadership training experience that blends synchronous and asynchronous learning.
- All PLN training offerings are designed to fit your leadership needs and accommodate busy schedules.
- Most PLN offerings are cohort-based with the goal of creating new opportunities for connection with others from mission-driven organizations.
Experience training and course design for leadership today and in the future.
When we design PLN offerings we ensure the design addresses the following questions:
- Does this provide leaders with stretch experiences and new ways of thinking?
- Does this reflect the current realities public sector leaders are operating in?
- Will this open windows of opportunity to bring new possibilities to fruition and generate public good?
- Does this allow for high-touch engagement experiences with cohort members and skilled instructors?
Learn with skilled instructors and coaches.
- All virtual, live sessions are led by skilled instructors/coaches who have walked in your shoes and understand the public leadership environment.
- PLN instructors/coaches focus on providing high-touch, engaging, and personalized learning experiences that any public leader can benefit from.
The PLN Pillars
We believe that leadership requires constant development and adaptation, and it should be based on core competencies – or Pillars – that will help public leaders navigate today’s fundamental challenges. PLN Pillars are centered on the core values of public leadership: creating collective action and public good. The PLN Pillars are grounded in specific leadership principles that reflect the current realities of operating in public service organizations.
The Pillars guide the development of the PLN’s training opportunities and include:
Developing Self-Awareness
As an anchor for leadership development, self-awareness requires leaders to consistently commit to reflecting on their patterns, mental models, behaviors, and assumptions. By tapping into self-awareness, leaders can explore new ways of thinking and participate in “stretch” experiences.
Guiding High-Performing Teams
This pillar involves a leader’s ability to lead others toward realizing their organization’s mission and achieving goals. Guiding high-performing teams combines utilizing emotional intelligence, team building, trust, cooperation, and much more.
Working Across Boundaries
Leaders must develop diverse and inclusive networks, build alliances, and collaborate across and outside of their organizations to build relationships and achieve common goals. Working with community members and stakeholders is a key component of public leadership and a crucial aspect of working across boundaries.
Tapping into Innovative Thinking
In a rapidly changing world, it is a necessity for public leaders to seek out new insights. Innovative thinking is a leader’s implementation of creative solutions, processes, and programs that have value to others (inside, across, and outside organizations).
Leading Change
Successful and continuous adaptation requires solid tracking of progress and challenges, good decision making, an ability to analyze and consider resetting paths to a goal, and delivering measurable results.