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

Apply Here

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?