Building Organizational and Leadership Capacity for
Breakthrough Social Change

OpenSource Leadership Strategies, Inc. addresses the leadership and organization development needs of nonprofits and other social change agents across the nation and globe who want to be the change they seek in the world. OpenSource works with Client Partners to align mission-driven outcomes (i.e., what you want to accomplish) with strategy, structure, and culture (i.e., how you accomplish it) for greater impact and integrity.

Why “OpenSource”?
We believe that good ideas come from a variety of sources – across disciplines, sectors, cultures – that can be integrated and adapted to meet each Client Partner’s needs. Using tested strategies and tools, our diverse, dynamic, and highly skilled network of consultants co-creates a customized process with you – to unleash your own wisdom and transformative power to achieve meaningful and lasting results.

What Does OpenSource Do?
OpenSource consults to social change agents – nonprofits, foundations, grassroots groups, local and national networks, socially responsible businesses, and others – around the country and globe.  Our consulting capabilities include:

Amplifying Impact through Strategic Planning and Thinking

• Developing your strategic road map
• Clarifying and articulating your theory of social change
• Evaluating results for continuous improvement and learning
• Moving successfully to the next stage of organizational life
• Strengthening your capacity for advocacy and systemic change
• Building and working in coalitions
• We also work with foundations to hone their grantmaking
  and community leadership strategies.
  

• Dismantling oppression and being social justice
• Discovering shared values
• Leading and leveraging change
• Shaping leadership and governance to reflect your constituency
  and social change mission
• Through our new Intentional Workplaces Initiative, we offer concepts
  and tools for communication and conflict, recognition and celebration,
  and accountability and teamwork. Follow this link for more information.

Advancing the Social Change Sector through Strategic Field Building

• Creating new knowledge through systematic research and writing
• Developing popular education curricula
• Weaving networks and strategic alliances
• Facilitating leadership development for social change

On a limited basis, we also design and deliver trainings on the topics listed above.

With every engagement, the OpenSource team adds value to your work through our social justice values, power lens, and these specific deliverables:

• Asset-Based Inquiry and Discovery – Systematically gathering and synthesizing information from stakeholders and other sources through interviews, surveys, focus groups, asset maps, environmental scans, and meta research to accurately read the current reality and uncover possibilities for the future.
• Facilitated Dialogue and Decision Making – Reframing conflict as a force for positive change and building consensus across differences to open a pathway for collective planning and action.
• Leadership Development and Coaching – Building individual and collective capacities for sustainable organizational change.
• Communicating Results – Providing written documentation of your process and decisions through reports, case stories, and organizational histories and making formal presentations to a variety of audiences.

Contact Us
OpenSource Leadership Strategies, Inc.
762 Ninth Street, #534 | Durham, NC 27705
919-824-3914 | info@opensourceleadership.com


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