Leadership for the greater good.
Who is Leadership Eastside?
Leadership Eastside offers a leadership development experience grounded in the practical skills of Adaptive Leadership, Racial Equity, Systems Thinking, Thrival, Gracious Space and Emotional Intelligence. We co-create a more just and equitable Eastside by developing leaders who understand what makes a healthy community and equipping them with skills to manage adaptive challenges.
Our Vision
A thriving and equitable community where complex issues are addressed through collaboration and shared responsibility.
Our Mission
We build leadership capacity to address complex challenges.
Our Values
Community Building: We center relationships through welcoming spaces, purposeful inclusion, and nurturing belonging.
Shared Responsibility: We inspire a collaborative culture where individuals feel accountable and empowered to improve the well-being of our community.
Racial Equity & Social Justice: We apply the awareness and tools required to promote justice and equity for everyone.
Systems Perspective: We address root cause issues and implement holistic solutions to ensure sustainable and generative community impact.
Thrival: We focus on the skills and mindsets required to build individual and systemic resilience to address complex challenges.
What is Adaptive Leadership?
Based on Harvard Center for Public Leadership co-founder Ron Heifetz’s The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, Adaptive Leadership is a model that equips leaders with the skills to lead people through complex challenges with a systems thinking approach. Addressing an adaptive challenge, by definition, often involves an honest examination of the current roles, norms, values and priorities, how they maintain the status quo and how they will need to evolve if equitable change is to happen.
What we do
Adaptive Leadership Program
Our flagship program brings together a diverse group of nonprofit, public sector and corporate leaders to build a toolbox of skills to address complex issues within organizations and community. Learn more…
Executive Insight
An intensive 4-day workshop for senior leaders to learn new approaches to achieving sustainable change, maximize influence for increased impact, and grow your network. Learn more…
Convene for the Greater Good
We host a variety of events to bring East King County leaders together to engage in hard conversations about the issues impacting our community, such as our annual Mayors Lunch. See our events schedule…
Nate Perea LE’15
"I apply the skills I learned from Leadership Eastside on a daily basis. There are also dozens of poignant and make-or-break moments in my career, personal life and community engagements where my L.E. knowledge was the only reason I was able to thrive and persist.
Understanding the Principles of Adaptive Leadership changes you. It changes you so that you can be the driver of meaningful change whenever, wherever and for whomever."
Land Acknowledgement
Leadership Eastside convenes leaders for the greater good of East King County, including the Indigenous people who live here. We live, work and gather on the lands of the Snoqualmie and Duwamish peoples, who are part of the larger Coast Salish peoples. We ask everyone to honor the Snoqualmie Tribe’s request to become involved in their Ancestral Lands Movement and treat the lands we walk on with respect; and the Duwamish Tribe’s request to remember them as the first people of Seattle and treat the land with gratitude. We encourage you to actively participate in activities and learnings recommended by the Native peoples who still live here today.