Leading for Equity in Complex Systems | Mar 20-21, 2025

Schedule

Thu Mar 20 2025 at 08:00 am to Fri Mar 21 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Oakstop - California Ballroom | Oakland, CA

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A 2-day in person institute that offers a complexity lens to equity leadership and change work
About this Event

Institute Schedule

Thursday, March 20 - Friday 21, 2025 | 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Pacific
Breakfast will be served at 8:00 - Content will begin promptly at 8:45am
Lunch will be served during a 1-hour break


Institute Description

Why do so many well intentioned equity efforts have such limited success—and even produce unintended negative consequences? Leaders often assume that building equity awareness and commitment in their organizations will naturally lead to strategies that bring progress. Though necessary, such equity awareness work is not sufficient to bring about these desired changes - because it doesn’t account for the critical reality of complexity. We work in complex systems (where change is perpetual and uncertainty is a given) with complex problems where “solutions” abound but success is elusive.

Equity challenges are particularly complex, with many entangled factors at play (including the deep-seated effects of systemic oppression) without a singular root cause. Traditional approaches to change and leadership - e.g. that attempt to specify outcomes and timelines, enumerate solutions, and then focus on implementation - are insufficient. Rather, emergent paths forward must be discovered through dynamic interactions of diverse people learning more about the challenge and taking many small actions that inform how they find their way forward together.

In this institute, you will:

  • Learn about what complexity really means and its implications for equity work;
  • Reflect on your own leadership through a complexity lens; and
  • Learn frameworks and methods that can expand your approach to leadership and change work.

As with all work toward equity, understanding complexity requires both a “window” lens (how we see complexity in our systems and situations) and a “mirror” lens (how complexity can both challenge us emotionally and transform our own ways of working). Accordingly, leaders of complex equity work must be skilled in balancing technical and relational / cultural work. Understanding more about complexity itself, and its implications for leadership, can open up whole new possibilities for approaching change efforts for equity. This course draws on an extensive body of theory, research and practice around complexity-informed systems change, as well as the National Equity Project’s 28+ years of experience in coaching and leading in complex systems.


Accessibility

We provide an advance draft of our slide deck 24 hours before the institute. Breakfast and lunch will be provided on both in-person institute days.

We are intensely focused on humanizing our spaces. We focus on interactivity and connection by providing frequent body breaks, and attending to learning, practice, and healing in community.

In an effort to create accessible spaces for everyone, we ask that participants refrain from wearing scented products such as perfume/colognes, hair products, cosmetics, and scented lotions while attending our event, as these products can trigger serious health issues for those with fragrance allergies and/or chemical sensitivities. For more information on being fragrance-free, visit this Fragrance Free Toolkit.

B y registering for this event, participants agree to the COVID-19 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND LIABILITY WAIVER AND RELEASE OF CLAIMS and the National Equity Project In-Person Health & Safety Policy



Registration & Payment

Institute Fee: $1,200 per person

Limited tickets for this event are offered on a Sliding Scale / Pay What You Can Model. For more information about how NEP's Sliding Scale Model works and guidance on how to determine what to pay please visit bit.ly/NEPSlidingScale


Participants will receive pre-reads and resources prior to the meeting via email. Please add [email protected] to your contacts to ensure you receive course communications.

Registration by credit card on Eventbrite is our preferred method. We are a small (but mighty) organization and processing and collecting check payments for our events has a high administrative impact.

Please visit our registration page on our website for information on paying by check or purchase order and our cancellation and registration transfer policy.


Contact the National Equity Project at with questions.

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Where is it happening?

Oakstop - California Ballroom, 1736 Franklin St, Oakland, United States

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Tickets

USD 0.00 to USD 1200.00

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