Transformative Leadership – Maynooth University Level 8

The Wheel in partnership with Community Action Network have developed this Level 8 accredited programme, Transformative Leadership, for leaders in community and voluntary organisations, charities and social enterprises. The Transformative Leadership programme is now in its tenth year and is aimed at individuals in senior management and at those who aspire to work in leadership roles in nonprofit organisations. It is designed to help leaders deal with the many complex realities of navigating and leading change in the nonprofit sector.

The programme contains four core modules:

• Personal leadership model building: focuses on enhancing effective leadership through a combination of personal and shared reflection, as well as practical skills development, theoretical inputs and group practice.
• Understanding and leading change: examines the complexities of advocating and leading change, including internal communications, fostering leadership in others and working with frameworks for change to develop a personal vision for leadership.
• Systems change: working creatively with diversity: provides a model for understanding organisational culture and how it relates to leadership, working creatively with conflict and diversity, exploring complexity theory and its relevance to leading systemic change.
• Building strategic alliances: includes skills development in collaborative working, policy and power mapping, as well as development of a personal leadership plan and networking for the future.

Designed to be both practical and inspirational in nature this programme equips leaders and emerging leaders with the tools to deepen their self-awareness, develop their personal leadership style and gain an applied understanding of innovative strategies for managing change in complex environments.

This certificate programme is accredited through the National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Applications are now open for the 2023 intake until Friday 27 September. APPLY HERE!

TESTIMONIAL:

“I did the Transformative Leadership course a number of years ago and I really enjoyed every module and looked forward to attending all of them. I found the group conversations with my peer leaders energising and stimulating. The experience of the dialogical  process and the excellent facilitation of the team was transformative to me as a leader. I encouraged a number of our staff  to do the course the following years and  they shared similar positive experiences. After a number of years the idea that stayed with me was  to strive to be a leader that created  opportunities for staff and students in my organisation ‘to soar to their strengths’. I work hard to achieve this and it’s the style of leadership that I continue to aspire to even after all these years.” – Mary Maher, Dublin Adult Learning Centre