
ELEVATE
Build your Leadership Capacity. Elevate Yourself and Others.
ELEVATE – The Coach Approach
Thursdays,
January 8 – March 5, 2026
Supporting Leadership Development and Coaching Capacity to Improve Individual and Team Performance and Increase Success in Supervision
Facilitators: Ellen Kagen Waghelstein and Mariana Antoniuk
Elevate your leadership and transform the way you supervise individuals and teams. Join your colleagues for an innovative, immersive and collaborative experience focused on adaptive leadership techniques, supervisory and communication skills, and hands-on learning. Learn from thought leaders in the nonprofit and for-profit world. Network and learn with a diverse cohort of supervisors who work in Jewish organizations in Greater Baltimore. Through a blended learning approach (eLearning, virtual learning and in-person), you will elevate your leadership capacity and increase your leadership and Jewish leadership literacy.
There will be a $100 minimal fee to the organizations, per person.
Maximum 30 participants.
Application Deadline: November 3, 2025
Goals:
To strengthen leadership and supervisory capabilities through the coach approach
To learn to see supervision as a set of adaptive challenges
To develop a network of peer supervisors
To learn and internalize skills through discussion, practice and application
For Professionals Who:
1. Supervise at least one staff member or who manage a team
2. Work in a Jewish organization, synagogue, school in greater Baltimore
3. Have the desire to manage up down and all around as part of a team
4. Know you can lead from any seat, as leadership is an activity, not a position
The Coach Approach to Adaptive Leadership (the “how” of leadership and supervision)
Coaching is a powerful tool for improving leadership, supervision and practice in Jewish Communal Organizations and Agencies. This series introduces leaders, administrators, supervisors, managers and program staff to:
- The leadership coaching mindset and skillset.
- Skill-based practice so that participants experience leadership coaching.
- Skill-based practice so that participants have the experience of being coached on real issues to enhance leadership and workforce effectiveness.
- Focus on good management skills.
- The adaptive leadership skills of aligning actions to values and reset.
- Build the critical thinking skills needed to support change and innovation in your respective agencies.
Topics covered will include:
- How do I become and stay present even in the midst of chaos and conflict?
- What does engaged listening look like and, how can I become an engaged listener?
- How can I ask powerful questions that unlock deeper responses to our leadership challenges?
- How can I use direct communication and feedback to support adaptive work?
- How can I create and support personal and collaborative accountability within the teams that I serve?
- How can we/I use leadership coaching skills in our daily interactions to create ongoing opportunities for internal and cross system collaboration?
- How can the Coach Approach increase my effectiveness as a coach/leader in leading change?
ELEVATE – DATES 2026 – THURSDAYS
January 8, Session 1 – FULL DAY RETREAT 9 – 4 p.m.
Building the cohort, technical vs adaptive leadership, growth mindset, SCARF and VUCA, reset to exploratory
January 15, Session 2 – VIRTUAL 9 – 10:30 a.m.
Orientation to peer learning groups and case consultation protocol
January 22, Session 3 – VIRTUAL 9 – 11 a.m.
Peer learning groups with case consultation
January 29, Session 4 – FULL DAY RETREAT 9 – 5 p.m.
Coach Approach to Supervision (part 1)
Coaching mindset, presence, engaged listening, reflecting, clarifying and inquiry
February 5, Session 5 – FULL DAY RETREAT 9 – 5 p.m.
Coach Approach to Supervision (part 2)
Giving feedback, gaining commitment, anchoring accountability
February 19, Session 6 – VIRTUAL 9 – 11 a.m.
“Fishbowl” – Practicing supervisor as coach skills with peer feedback
February 26, Session 7 – VIRTUAL 9 – 11 a.m.
Peer learning groups with case consultations
March 5, Session 8 – FULL DAY RETREAT 9 – 4 p.m.
Courageous conversations, making clear requests, radical candor, closing celebration/Siyyum

Past ELEVATE Supervisory Cohorts
2023-2024
Jamie Aaron, Towson Hillel
Cole Austin, The Associated
Alli Berger, Jewish Connection Network
Tracy Boka, The Associated
Tiffany Carr, The Associated
Rebecca Chinsky, JCC of Greater Baltimore
Kathleen Currier, Jewish Community Services
Jennifer Goodman, Jewish Community Services
Guevien Gray-Oba, Jewish Community Services
Smadar Haika-Fox, Jewish Educational Services
Julie Hettleman, The Soul Center
Sarah LeBon, The Associated
Abigail Malischostak, Jewish Connection Network
Shneur Marshall, Jewish Community Services
Camille Mulkey, Jewish Community Services
Ivey Och, JCC of Greater Baltimore
Rachel Plotkin, Na’aleh
Becca Rosenfelt, Beth Israel Congregation
Aviva Schwartz, The Associated
Kate Tallent, Jewish Community Services
Daud Waziri, The Associated
Past ELEVATE Supervisory Cohorts
2021-2022
Eli Bass, Pearlstone Hazon
LaNelle Beale, The Associated
Jeffrey Blavatt, The Associated
Erica Bloom, Jewish Volunteer Connection
Ali Duhan, The Associated
Claire Fultz, Jewish Community Services
Aviva Janus, Har Sinai-Oheb Shalom Congregation
Caroline Kamande, The Associated
Lynne Kness, Jewish Community Center
Suzette Kossoff, Jewish Community Center
Tatyana Madreymova, The Associated
Louise Nagel, Beth Shalom Congregation
Terri Rosen, Center for Jewish Education
Rachel Ruben, CHAI
Robin Rose Samuels, Jewish Community Center
Larry Schugam, CHAI
Melissa Seltzer, Jewish Community Center
Joshua Snyder, Goucher Hillel
Diana Solomon, 4Front (JCC)
Emily Stern, Jewish Community Center
Jennifer Taylor, Jewish Community Services
Valerie Thaler, Beth Israel