Dear Community,
A few weeks ago we released our
2026 Training and Events Calendar, and we’re so grateful for the excitement and support you’ve shared. Over the next couple of emails, we’ll be highlighting the programs that are coming up first in the year, especially the ones many of you have been asking about.
Today, we’re excited to announce a training we’ve been wanting to offer for a long time: the Organizational Project Design Lab, beginning March 2026.
This training is close to me personally. Over the years, I’ve been part of many teams that incubated projects trying to do something genuinely different within their field. That work is exciting, but it’s also difficult, there’s no clear roadmap for how to protect the DNA of an idea, translate it into a real structure, and take something from concept to implementation. For more than a decade, we’ve coached groups through this same process. Sometimes we’ve called that front-loading: doing the thinking up front, building a comprehensive vision, and creating the organizational, program, or movement DNA before launching. We’ve also used mass training as one of our strongest tools for scaling. It allows us to teach thousands, spread knowledge quickly, and replicate work across contexts. It’s powerful, and we’ll talk about it in this training. But mass training is only one form of scale. There are other methods that can help groups grow intentionally and sustainably. This training brings all of that learning together.
The Organizational and Project Design Lab focuses on two core functions: incubating what’s missing and scaling what works. It builds on our previous teachings around concepts like organizational DNA, front-loading, mass training, and design thinking, but moves toward real implementation and scaling.
Because of strong interest, we’re moving this training earlier in the year. Instead of September, it will now begin in March 2026. “
Rooted Leadership for Turbulent Times” will shift to September.
The training is online and open to participants anywhere. We’ll consider applications on a first-come, first-served basis, so if you’re interested, we encourage you to apply early.
