As a leader your role is much more than completing multiple transactional activities, your role is also one that must relate to staff and community stakeholders. Your ability to self-control impulses, moods, emotions, and empathy are the keys to effective leadership, particularly during challenging times. Your emotional wellness is the foundation of building trust and motivation among your team members.
**Please note - Untapped Leaders sessions are currently dedicated to BIPOC-identifying participants.
As a result of attending this session, you will come away with:
A new awareness of how emotional wellness is fundamental to effective leadership during crisis.
Tools to use to learn more about each participant's level of Emotional Intelligence.
Practical ways to cultivate daily/weekly emotional wellness check-ins
Untapped Leaders brings together Black, Indigenous, Latinx/a/o, Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander, MENA and otherwise marginalized leaders from across industries to learn from each other through weekly facilitated leadership workshops and small-group peer coaching sessions, plus a diverse network of members committed to each others’ success.
Members enjoy unparalleled access to expert career coaches via weekly live sessions + on-demand access to all session recordings + ongoing chat support, all for under $10/session.
About Marissa
Dr. Marissa Kalu-Thompson is an educational consultant and coach who gets excited when building capability around systems thinking, equity, effective leadership development for aspiring and experienced leaders, emotional wellness/emotional intelligence, and continuous improvement. She earned a Doctorate in Education from Northeastern University, a Master of Education from OISE/University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Education from Queen's University, and a Honors Bachelor of Social Work from York University. In addition, she earned a graduate certificate in School Leadership from the School Leader Institute at Harvard University. Dr. Kalu-Thompson has twenty years of experience teaching and leading in both Canadian and American public, and charter schools and non-profit organizations.