Leadership Forum Community

The Leadership Forum Community is the oldest leadership community in the United States, and our impact has now reached over 10 countries worldwide. 106 years later, we continue to bring people together to explore leadership challenges, develop conscious leaders, and create solutions that result in meaningful and equitable change in organizations, education, and society.

Our purpose is to expand Conscious Leadership

Vision

We imagine a world where conscious leadership is empowered in everyone everywhere, so that all have the opportunity and tools to exercise leadership in organizations, communities, and societies.

Mission

We convene to explore leadership challenges, develop conscious leaders, and create solutions that result in meaningful and equitable change in organizations, education, and society.

Promise

We advance meaningful and lasting outcomes to leadership challenges: Strengthening your leadership, Enhancing your network, Expanding your impact.

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Expanding Conscious Leadership

In essence, conscious leadership relates to three elements that intersect and ripple outward, creating greater waves of impact.

To be conscious is to be aware. Awareness is both internal and external. The world within us encompasses our thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and motivations. While much of this is automatic and unconscious, this complex web of experiences, emotions, and beliefs drives our actions. Internal awareness is to hold a mirror to ourselves so we understand what and why we think and act the way we do. External awareness is about the world around us – extending from our interpersonal relationships and organizational interactions to actions in the wider world. In moving from unconscious reflex to conscious action, we open up the potential for choice and greater impact.

Consciousness calls us to be intentional about our behaviors and actions. This derives from a space of awareness of our values and the impact we might have through our actions. When our lives are guided by intention, we act from a place of purpose. Intention and capacity don’t count much unless they are activated. Action without intention is rudderless. What we are able to do also depends on ability as much as intention and opportunity. Awareness and intention are catalysts for developing our capacity to be more of who we wish to be and achieve more through our actions.

Read our 2023 Summit Position Paper to learn about Conscious Leadership

Our Leaders

Our leaders span various ages, geographies, backgrounds, experience, and diversity. Some have been active Leadership Forum Community stakeholders for 30+ years, and some have immersed themselves in the past couple of years, but all share in the belief that Leadership Matters.

If you’d like to connect with an LFC Leader or learn more about our organization, contact us at inbox@leadershipforumcommunity.org.

Joel Wright

President

Anne Hunnex

Treasurer/VP

Vanessa Mbouw

Secretary/Communications

Linette Gomez

Board Chair

Howard Kraft

Board Member

Kathy Bittner

Board Member

Poyee Chiu

Board Member

Lyndon Rego

Board Member

Ken Judy

Board Member

Martha Adeline

Board Member

Kanya Balakrishna

Board Member

Faith Hassell

Board Member

Matthew Mullens

Partnership/Technology

As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, we rely on the dedication and hard work of our officers to support all aspects of our operations. Currently, we have several officer positions available. If you are interested in contributing to our mission by filling one of these roles, please reach out to us via email.

Treasurer/VP

Governance

Back up for the President
Maintains Bylaws
Creates and maintains organizational policy documentation
Annual Budget Planning
Monitors snail mailbox

Financial Tracking

Maintains Operating Fund Checking Account (weekly or as needed)
Maintains Scholarship Fund Checking Account (as needed)
Maintains Endowment Fund account
Creates Financial Reports for Board and Stakeholders
Files state and federal tax documents
Files charitable org documents to states
Tracks Fiscal Sponsorship Activity
Process labor invoices (monthly)
Pays bills (monthly)
Tracks incoming credit card transactions (as needed)
Maintains credit card payment links on the website
Notifies Operations Officer when donations are received
Mails out tax deduction donor letters
Maintains relationship with external accountants

Scholarships

Tracks scholarship applications
Ensure scholarship applications are reviewed and communicate approval and denial to applicants.
Transfers funds for awarded scholarships from the Scholarship Fund to the Operating Fund
Tracks whether scholarships recipients have registered and whether they attend the event.

Requirements:

Must be U.S. based
Must be detail oriented
Excellent skill with Excel. Familiar with Quickbooks
Background in managing financials and organizational documentation.
Time requirement varies but is about 40 hours per month.

Program Officer

Monthly Events

Obtain and make arrangements with provocateurs for monthly CLCs
Collect title, description, bio, and picture
Obtain permission for publishing recording and/or clips
Schedule Zoom session
Communicate session and provocateur information to Operations
Work with provocateurs to insert intro and outro slides.
Hold CLC dry runs, plan polling/ breakouts/ etc.
Host CLCs or ensure there is a host.
Ensure CLCs are recorded
Create, implement and manage survey and data

Summit Support

Member of the Summit Team
Point of communication with Summit provocateurs to ensure they will have what they need to present and that the Operations team has the necessary information for marketing.
Collect permissions for publishing recording and/or clips

Technology Officer

Provide overall technology direction to ensure platform integration and maintenance.
Ensure technology security is in place to protect the organization’s information and the information of the community members is secure.
Determine and manage the technology required to hold remote and hybrid events.
Coordinate technology needs and plans with event venues or even hubs.
Administer Google Suite of applications:
- Drives
- Emails
- YouTube
Maintain Board and Officer permissions to Google drive (remove and grant permissions as members change)
Zoom Administration
- Edit zoom recordings to provide beginning and ending slide/ music
- Post CLC and Summit recordings to YouTube
Coordinate any updates needed for the CLT

Grants Development Officer

Establish and carry out a plan to gain grants that support our mission.
Develop sponsorship relationships with corporate entities
Create and implement a fundraising plan to increase donations
Create a plan to obtain sponsorships or donations for special events
Maintain close communications with donors and sponsors to ensure they maintain connection and interest in the organization.

Educational Services Officer

Conscious Leadership Tree Development and Maintenance
- Ensure that CLT assets are kept up to date and accessible
- Recruit contributors to the CLT
- Review submitted assets to ensure they are appropriate for the LFC
Oversee Leadership Labs Management – Sue
Manage Courses in Participate
- Obtain new courses
- Load them into Participate
- Ensure that course owners are responding to enrollees
- Provide information to Operations on new courses
- Assess course utilization and effectiveness
Manage content within Participate
- Courses
- Collections
- Pages
- Operations will update Announcements
Oversee Mentorship Program
- Ensure the mentorship program is well documented
- Ensure that mentors and mentees are being paired in a timely manner
- Provide information to Operations to publicize the mentorship program
- Assess the effectiveness of the program
Leadership Solutions
- Define how this program could be structured
- Determine the benefits of the program
- LINC – dialogue program for business (Rina & Anne)
Leadership Essentials Certification
- Define how this program could be structured
- Determine the benefits of the program

Our Sponsors and Partners

The following organizations support the Leadership Forum Community through the donation of funds, goods, and services. We are grateful for their partnership in our mission to develop leadership in our world.