Leadership is a discipline that can be taught to managers and professionals and adopted to get extraordinary results.

Our most challenging organizational problems are beyond the scope of a "management" approach. We are all striving to make Justice for All more than an empty promise. Our success calls for new behaviors and strategies that can be best characterized as "leadership."

We spend most of our time as managers, administrators, and professionals, not leaders. We're very good in those roles. Now we are called to get better as leaders. Leadership is different from management. It's a different kind of work. We all can learn to do it!

Why is leadership so important in legal services and related fields today?
The reasons are many . . .

• Each of us is called to be a leader. Leadership is the process of enrolling others in something we are passionate about. As professionals we have opportunities every day to expand our reach and scope by mobilizing other people in our vision of what kind of future we see for our clients and ourselves.
• Legal services delivery systems are in a state of flux. "Comprehensive, integrated statewide delivery systems" are being developed in every state. New possibilities for reconfiguring delivery systems and deploying legal services staff and volunteers are being explored as a proactive response to funding cutbacks and restrictions on legal services work carried out under old models. These present us with unprecedented opportunities as well as unknowns and uncertainties.
• Our vision is bigger than our own capacity to execute. For truly significant change to happen, we have to mobilize others as partners. How to mobilize our staff, our colleagues in the private bar, the leaders of client groups and other community-based organizations is an issue that can only be addressed by understanding and deploying leadership.
  This workshop will engage participants for 1½ days focusing on their leadership visions and the tools they need to be successful. You should attend if you are . . . A leader of a task force seeking to dramatically expand services to clients in your program, region or state. A manager or professional in a legal services program or funding agency seeking to make your part of an "integrated statewide system" improve outcomes for clients. A consultant or facilitator looking for ways to move client teams boldly into action.