Strategies for Success Series - Fall 2025

Strategies for Success is a 4-part interactive workshop series designed for nonprofit professionals interested in weaving leading practices to their work. This series provides practical approaches to apply these principles effectively, benefiting individuals, organizations and the communities they serve.

Our Fall 2025 series will focus on Human-Centered Leadership and is designed for everyone in the organization. From direct service providers, managers, boards and beyond, this training series focuses on recognizing and leveraging your unique strengths. With a human-centered approach, it guides you to deepen self-awareness, enhance your ability to support others, build strong team trust, and confidently lead change. Each session empowers you to bring your best to everyday challenges and grow from your existing capabilities.

Register to attend all four sessions in the series by September 16, 2025 and receive a $5 discount per session. You must register for all four sessions in the series using this ticket to receive the discount. This registration allows one individual to attend all four sessions and is non-transferable.

Individual session registrations will be charged full price and may be purchased via our website at www.hsctc.org/workshops

Workshops Included in the Strategies for Success Series

Session 1: September 18, 2025, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, in person at TCPL

Leading with Awareness: Practicing Cultural Humility with Luca Maurer

Effective leadership begins with self-awareness. In this session we’ll reflect on how our identities, backgrounds, and lived experiences shape the ways we lead, connect, and make decisions. We’ll explore ways assumptions and biases—both conscious and unconscious— can impact our work. And how self-reflection, empathy, and curiosity build trust, foster shared understanding, and cultivate belonging at work. We’ll also explore how intergenerational perspectives and experiences can influence expectations and communication. Strengthen the foundations that reinforce relationships rooted in mutual respect, by deepening your understanding of yourself and others.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and reflect on how our backgrounds and lived experience influence leadership style, decision making, and interpersonal dynamics.
• Recognize the impact of conscious and unconscious bias, including intergenerational bias, on communication, trust-building, and team culture.
• Apply strategies rooted in self-reflection, empathy, curiosity, and accountability to build inclusive relationships and foster a sense of belonging in varied workplace settings.

Session 2: October 2, 2025, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, in person at TCPL

Coaching for Managers with Amy Kohut

Once you’re practicing self-awareness and understanding your influence, this session steps in to help you grow others. Coaching brings awareness into your daily leadership practice, creating space for trust, ownership, and real development on your team while strengthening your impact.

You’ll learn to:

• Use powerful coaching questions to spark clarity and action in others
• Learn a coaching model that supports bringing others to clarity around their goals and objectives
• Practice coaching with a real situation
• Build relationships that grow performance and trust

Session 3: October 16, 2025, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, in person at TCPL

Psychological Safety with Shasta Savage

Supportive team culture is part of the foundation for getting things done well while also protecting against burnout. This workshop focuses on the importance of psychological safety in fostering effective teamwork and creating a culture of care. Participants will learn strategies to build trust, encourage open communication, and support each other's well-being, leading to enhanced collaboration and performance.

Learning Outcomes:

• Define psychological safety and its impact on team dynamics and performance
• Identify behaviors that promote psychological safety within teams
• Implement practices that support individual and collective well-being

Session 4: October 30, 2025, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, in person at TCPL

Leading Change with Clarity with Judith Rowe

In times of change, people look to leaders not only for direction, but also for understanding, empathy, and connection. This interactive workshop invites nonprofit leaders to approach change through a human-centered lens, focusing on the people at the heart of every transition. Together, we will explore practical tools to navigate uncertainty with transparency, compassion, and shared purpose. You’ll learn how to communicate openly (even when answers are evolving), create space for honest and supportive dialogue, and strengthen trust in your teams. Participants will leave with a framework and real-world strategies that honor both organizational goals and the human experience of change.

About the Presenters

Luca Maurer is the inaugural Executive Director for Student Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Ithaca College. An author and consultant on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, LGBTQ topics, intersectionality, global health, and disability, he has worked in the US and abroad with professionals in social services, education, health care, and law enforcement, and with workplaces of all types.

Amy Kohut, PCC has been skillfully leading groups and individuals towards their professional goals for over 25 years. She has deep experience in many facets of professional realms: for-profit, non-profit, healthcare, higher education and government.

As the owner of 1 Step Coaching and Consulting, she offers Leadership and Executive Coaching, Emotional Intelligence and Team Development workshops. She is a Professional Certified Coach with both the International Coach Federation and Presence-Based Coaching. Amy served as the Director of Cornell University’s Team & Leadership Center from 2006-2016. She continues to work for Cornell in the SC Johnson College of Business as a team coach for the MS Healthcare Leadership, Metro NY, and Americas Executive MBA programs.

She is a member of The International Coach Federation, is the Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Experiential Training and Development Alliance, and is a faculty member of Presence Based Coaching, LLC.

Shasta Savage is a trainer, speaker, consultant, leadership coach and yoga/mindfulness instructor. With a background in the trauma-informed lens and human rights perspective, she provides support on topics such as leadership development, organizational culture, program development, employee well-being, self- and community-care. She integrates data-driven and leading/promising practices with an intersectional approach to support the greatest outcomes.

Judith Rowe is passionate about unleashing potential and drives transformation through her consultancy, Judith A. Rowe Consulting, LLC. With a focus on diverse training, facilitation, coaching, and wellness initiatives, Judy champions growth in DEIB, leadership, and communication skills. With dual bachelor's degrees in Civil and Industrial Engineering (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) and a master's in Industrial and Labor Relations (Cornell University), Judy's 27-year journey at Corning Incorporated spanned engineering, sales, customer service, quality, and management roles. Judy provides coaching through her practice as well as through partnership with Organizational Learning Group (OLG) and Bravely, Inc. Judy is a Certified Coach through IFC. Judy’s commitment extends to community engagement, including leadership roles at the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes, Corning Children's Center, and the Southern Tier Regional Planning and Development Board.

All sales registration sales are final and non-transferable.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca, United States