Context-aware leadership experiences

that reflect your team’s realities.

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At Untapped Leaders, we design and deliver sessions that meet your people where they are—and move them forward.

Whether your team is navigating change, building trust, clarifying purpose, or growing their capacity to lead across lines of difference, our sessions offer something most leadership programs miss: real-world relevance and practical impact.

We don’t bring a plug-and-play curriculum. We build leadership experiences around your organization’s realities, using frameworks that develop contextual agility, leverage diversity, and unlock collective capacity.

What Makes Our Sessions Different

  • Context-First Design: Every session is shaped around your organization’s landscape—what your people are facing, what they care about, and where you’re trying to go.

  • Dynamic Facilitation: Our facilitators bring decades of leadership expertise, lived experience, and a deep ability to read the room and adjust in real-time.

  • Tangible Application: Each session closes with tools your team can use right away—applied learning designed for lasting change.

Leadership Sessions Built for Real-World Teams

Sample Sessions

We've grouped our offerings into clusters that speak directly to organizational triggers and leadership development goals. Each topic can be delivered as a standalone workshop, a multi-part series, or a retreat session—customized by level, audience, and need.

  • For teams navigating change, silos, or friction.

    • Trust as a Container for Change

    • Leading with Candor, Care, and Context

    • The Context of You (Trust-Building Exercise)

    • Collaborative Leadership and Decision-Making

    • Interpersonal Leadership Styles

    • The Art of Strategic Pausing: Leadership Presence in Complexity

  • For new, emerging, or overextended supervisors.

    • Supervising in a Diverse Workplace

    • Managing with Clarity, Curiosity, and Courage

    • The P.O.W.E.R. Framework for 1:1s

    • Coaching as a Core Leadership Skill

    • Building Team Culture as a Manager

    • The Role of the Middle: Empowering Managers as Culture Carriers

    • From Feedback Fatigue to Feedback Fluency

  • For leaders steering through transformation or growth.

    • Leading Through Uncertainty

    • Exercising Contextual Agility in Leadership

    • Systems Thinking and Power Mapping

    • Stealth Mode: Pushing and Pulling Systems Toward Change

    • Crafting a Resilient, Purpose-Driven Vision

    • Making Values Actionable: Aligning Daily Decisions with Organizational Culture

  • For individuals and teams ready to reflect, deepen, and grow.

    • Identity, Intersectionality, and Leadership

    • The Deceiving Narrative of Imposter Syndrome

    • Your Zone of Untapped Capacity

    • Leadership Storytelling

    • From Burnout to Sustainability

  • We co-create sessions for leadership retreats, team alignment intensives, and staff development initiatives. Popular customized topics include:

    • Strategic Visioning & Retreat Design
      Deep-dive sessions to align on purpose, reset culture, and chart next steps for strategic growth.

    • Leadership Development for Affinity-Based Groups
      Skill-building and community-strengthening for high-potential talent who hold underrepresented identities.

    • Executive Team Alignment on Trust & Culture
      Navigate the hidden dynamics and divergent leadership styles that impact performance, and walk away with a shared framework for trust.

WHY CHOOSE

UNTAPPED LEADERS

  • “The Untapped Leaders program and the crucial conversations that are generated from concepts and prompts challenge you professionally and personally. From an exploration of your own identity, reflection of past experiences, and challenging what we have come to know as leadership and community—you are transformed, inspired and made hopeful for the future. Dr. Vazquez-Newsum creates a safe environment for deep reflection of what it means to be a… leader in the different institutions that we are a part of. I highly recommend the Untapped Leaders Program and see it as a standard in individual and team development.“

    — Tina Rocha, MSW, PPSC Technical Assistance Specialist Center for Applied Research Solutions

Case Studies

  • Our collaboration with the MHTTC Network led to the creation of the "Untapped Leadership: A Wellness Workshop Series." This series was specially designed for BIPOC-identifying school mental health professionals and their allies. It focused on enhancing wellness, leadership skills, and creating supportive networks among peers. This initiative not only empowered participants but also fostered an inclusive environment for sharing and growth, addressing the unique challenges faced by BIPOC individuals in the mental health sector.

  • Our partnership with Caruso included a multi-session series focused on leadership development at the intersection of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The series kicked off with an organization-wide session on "Uncovering Untapped Leadership: Exercising Contextual Agility to Lead Effectively," setting the stage for a deep dive into identity, intersectionality, systems thinking, and inclusive leadership. By exploring these critical areas, participants developed a understanding of their unique leadership capacities and those of colleagues, learned to navigate organizational dynamics with agility, and devised strategies for inclusive leadership.

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