Facilitative Leadership

As leaders, we often feel it is our role to have all the answers and tell others what to do. What if you had another leadership stance that allowed for a more fluid response to complex challenges? Facilitative leadership enables you to create a space in which your team members’ knowledge, experience, and wisdom can be brought to bear fully on the issue at hand, a space where collective intelligence will emerge. Weaving together the soulful and pragmatic dimensions of leadership, this session will explore the four essential tasks of the facilitative leader and the inner challenges behind those tasks. Through interactive discussions and experiential processes, you’ll learn more about yourself as a facilitative leader.

Linda Ford, PhD, improves organizational performance by locating hard-to-spot patterns that slow teams down. She brings a heartful presence to her work with leaders that enables transformational shifts in individuals and organizations. Her 30 years of experience cover all angles of corporate interaction and she backs that know-how with a masters’ degree in Organization Development and a PhD in Human and Organization Systems. Ford was the founding director of the Concordia MBA and has taught management science in several universities.