ACCELERATE

ACCELERATE your Leadership. BUILD your Community.

Move your leadership journey forward. Join us for an innovative and collaborative leadership journey focused on adaptive leadership techniques, hands-on learning, immersive experiences, and access to thought leaders in the nonprofit and for-profit worlds. Network, learn, and discover with a diverse class of new leaders of all ages in the Greater Baltimore Jewish community. You will explore your leadership capacity, delve into Jewish thought and tradition, increase your leadership literacy, and discover who you want to become as a leader.

Our ACCELERATE Cohort I gathers in the Ravens locker room at M&T Bank Stadium for their final session before the Siyum (completion ceremony) in May 2022.
Our ACCELERATE cohort gathers in the Ravens locker room at M&T Bank Stadium for their final session before the Siyum (completion ceremony) in May 2022.

The 8-session class will be held once a month from September 2023-May/June 2024. We aspire to build a diverse cohort of leaders in the Baltimore Jewish community who:

1. Are all ages

2. Are new lay leaders in a synagogue, school, agency, or organization

3. Are open minded, curious, and growth-oriented

4. Embrace challenges, diversity, and difficult conversations

5. Look for opportunities to become more self-aware and deepen their knowledge of what it means to be a leader in today’s increasingly complex world

6. Are committed to building a greater, more vibrant Jewish community

You will gain:

• A deeper self-awareness of who you are and how you “show up” as a leader

• Networking opportunities within your cohort and the Greater Baltimore Jewish community

• Access to high level thought leaders

• Confidence in your ability to lead through a Jewish lens

• Mentorship

• Tools to bolster your leadership competencies

• A personal leadership vision

2023-2024 Cohort Alumni:

  • Chris Ammann
  • Jonathan Carter
  • Timoth David Copney
  • Janelle Diamond
  • Diane Gensler
  • Steve Goloskov
  • Angela Haynes
  • Sam Hopkins
  • Jake Max
  • Stacey Meadows
  • CG Polirer
  • Max Reamer
  • Matthew Rothstein
  • Elizabeth Rozmaryn
  • Kyley Sommer
  • Lisa Sparks
  • Dinah Winnick
  • Melanie Yasbin

2021-2022 Cohort I Alumni:

  • Allison Kehne
  • Darrell Braman
  • Chana Dena Pollak
  • Elizabeth Testa Getzoff
  • Eric Kass
  • Jennifer Berman
  • Jeremy Lasson
  • KeSean Johnson
  • Jessica Krasnick
  • Justin Fair
  • Kat Giannini
  • Kimberly Wynn
  • Marc Wernick
  • Marla Friedman
  • Micah Damareck
  • Mike Sapperstein
  • Neal Shaivitz
  • Theodore Casser

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