The Advocates Academy
Assisting community leaders and social justice advocates in refining the crafts and capacity to make change through an empowering, innovative, and engaging curriculum, provided in a social and fun environment.
Authentic Leadership
Authentic leadership is the most sustainable form of leadership. When leaders are themselves and empower their team members to be themselves, they develop successful operations that can thrive and grow.
Organization Development and Networks
Leading organizations and networks is not easy. However, there are many people who have contributed to a body of best practices that can help guide any leader to success in an organization or network.
Change Management
Change is hard. Generally, most people do not like change. Is not managed properly, change can be scary, isolating, and even destructive to the best team. Managing change is a required for improving performance of any group.
Legal Training
Our goal is to improve access to quality legal services to all marginalized groups. This means not only engaging in educating law school and paralegal students and incubating new law firms, but also training legal professionals, including lawyers, in providing quality, scalable legal services to a diverse community. Our resources integrate social justice topics with the real-world economics and constraints impacting legal operations.
Culture, Governance, Systems, and Leadership Training
We provide trainings to community-based organizations and groups, nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and companies who seek to improve operations and performance around social justice issues. Our resources balance the practical realities of business with fundamental principles and best practices of community development to produce an innovative training.