Rockwood Leadership Institute provides transformative personal leadership development for nonprofits and social changemakers. We are building a network of powerful and collaborative leaders to help transform our country and our world. Rockwood has trained over 7,000 leaders since 2000. Our trainings create stronger, more focused and more effective individuals, organizations and networks working for the common good.

Our training programs include:

 • The Advanced Art of Leadership
• The Art of Collaborative Leadership
 • The Art of Leadership
• The Art of Leadership for Philanthropic Leaders
• The Art of Leadership for Women in Racial Justice and Human Rights
• Building Capacity for Organizational Resilience and Renewal (BCORR)
• Leading from the Inside Out Yearlong Fellowship
• Organizational Leadership

We have also convened Fellowships for:

• California Immigrant Rights Leaders
• California Leaders of Color
• Death Penalty Abolition Leaders
• Human Rights and National Security Reform Leaders
• Leaders in Arts and Culture
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Advocacy Leaders
• Media Reform and Media Justice Leaders
• SEIU Leaders
• Upper Midwest Leaders

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