A Program for Today’s Changemakers
The WKKF Community Leadership Network equips local leaders to be effective agents of collective, community-led change.
The 18-month program offers hands-on development, professional leadership coaching, peer networking and practical experience.
Connect
- Unite with a diverse group locally and across the U.S. to learn from each other and foster lasting relationships.
- Build a powerful multicultural, multi-sector collaborative within your community to effect enduring change.
- Join a Global Fellows Network of 1,200+ that facilitates connection, collaborative learning and collective action.
Grow
- Understand your leadership identity and emerge with greater self-awareness, personal mastery and effectiveness in leading others.
- Gain skills for engaging varied voices, navigating differences and bringing people together around solutions.
- Learn essential ways to advance racial equity, racial healing and collective leadership in communities.
Lead
- Get fully equipped to lead transformational change that benefits children, families and communities.
- Integrate self-care practices that generate compassion for yourself and others and that build resilient leadership.
- Put new knowledge and skills into action through class and cohort activities and in your day-to-day work.
“Working alongside these wonderful leaders has made me realize that I am worthy and that I must utilize these gifts to make the changes that we all want to see in community”
— Class Two Fellow, Michigan Cohort
The application period for Class 4 is now closed.
Through a variety of activities, the program builds leadership self-mastery, understanding of racial equity and systems, and tools for authentic community engagement – all to support leading in place.
All Class Learning Sessions
All fellows come together for six in-person, multiple-day gatherings, plus three virtual sessions. In these all-class sessions, fellows learn from inspirational speakers and meet in large and small groups, as well as one-on-one with their professional leadership coaches to deepen understanding of racial equity and racial healing, developing local leaders and engaging community in solving their own problems.
Assessment and Self-awareness
From leadership assessments and conversations with their coaches, fellows learn how they’re showing up and ways to tap into their strengths. Reflection and journaling throughout the fellowship also increase fellows’ self-awareness to become more compassionate and effective leaders.
Professional Leadership Coaching and Community Support
A series of one-on-one individualized sessions with a Center for Creative Leadership professional leadership coach will guide fellows in bringing class material to life on their leadership journey. Fellows also benefit from having a CCL team coach for their cohort, as well as meeting with WKKF staff and former fellows.
Peer Community Networking
In cohorts, fellows go deeper on issues specific to their communities and practice applying the WKKF’s community engagement framework of cooperative planning, intelligent study and group action. Cohorts collaborate to tell the story of their community and the children who live, go to school and play there, culminating in a group presentation to the class.
ABOUT W.K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION
Established as an independent, private foundation in 1930, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) continues to be guided by its founder’s intent – to support lasting change for all children and families in the places they live, learn, work and play. To accomplish this, the foundation connects and develops local leaders so they can authentically engage their communities in navigating today’s challenges and help to transform systems so they work for everyone.
ABOUT CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP
The Center for Creative Leadership® (CCL) seeks to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership for the benefit of society across the globe. A top ranking executive education firm worldwide, CCL brings more than 50 years of experience, research and best practice to connect the challenges leaders face with the essential skills they need to be successful. Since 1970, CCL has helped transform more than one million leaders and thousands of organizations in 160 countries. CCL manages the WKKF Community Leadership Network as a grantee of the Kellogg Foundation. For more information, visit ccl.org.