James P. Shannon Leadership Institute

In the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute, leaders gain clarity about the purpose of their work along with the core values they want their lives to exemplify. With renewed focus, greater effectiveness, and increased fulfillment, leaders emerge recharged, purposeful, and rededicated to community service.

A yearlong process of discovery and growth, the core components that make the Shannon Institute successful include:

• Engaging proven leaders looking to renew themselves and their vision for their work
• Focusing on the purpose and values leaders wish to model in the process of doing their work
• Providing a diverse group context bringing together leaders from different fields, geographies, races, cultures, interests, and organizational size and type.
• Integrating with the participants’ real life and work by moving from high level reflection to practical planning
• Requiring a yearlong commitment that creates space for patient reflection, sustained growth, development of new relationships, and implementation of lasting changes.

A gift to the Shannon Institute not only impacts the leaders in our program, it also builds the capacity of the nonprofits they lead, and the communities they serve. Food shelves, advocacy organizations, theaters, and homeless shelters serve the community more effectively when creative, grounded leaders are at the helm. Support the fabric of your community with a gift to the Shannon Institute!