Leadership for the greater good.
Who is Leadership Eastside?
Leadership Eastside offers leadership development experiences that are grounded in the practical skills of Adaptive Leadership, Gracious Space and Racial Equity. 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 Mission
Leadership Eastside promotes connections, develops and enriches leaders, and is a catalyst for communities to address important issues and meet the challenges of a diverse and dynamic region.
We are fostering a power shift on the Eastside, and our role is skills development and modeling a community-focused form of collaborative leadership that serves the well-being of everyone.
Our purpose
Leadership Eastside convenes leadership for the greater good in East King County as an education leader. We inform, equip, and connect our community’s greatest assets – its leaders – to meet our community’s greatest needs.
What is Adaptive Community Leadership?
Adaptive Community Leadership is a model that equips leaders with the skills to lead people through difficult, messy and 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 Believe
Everyone deserves to thrive
Effective community leaders value genuine human connection and authentic relationships in order to drive lasting and sustainable impact.
Collaboration transcends silos and narrow interests
Engage in ways that are best for the whole, find solutions that create and reinforce shared responsibility for deliverables and navigate conflict and competing perspectives that lead to courageous collaboration.
The people affected by an issue should be involved in their solutions
Intentionally seeking out and purposefully including underrepresented voices and disrupting racial and other inequalities to discover solutions that benefit all people.
