New Orleans • Spring 2026

In-Person Liberatory Leadership Coaching Circle


Join us this spring in New Orleans for an in-person gathering of social justice leaders who are committed to leading with others—sharing power, navigating complexity together, and deepening practices of co-leadership in real time.

This Circle is designed for leaders working in partnership—across roles, titles, and levels—who are cultivating collective leadership, mutual accountability, and generative collaboration within their organizations and movements.

📍 New Orleans, Louisiana
📅 Program Dates: May 18–20, 2026
✈️ Arrival & Departure: Arrive on May 17 by 4pm and depart morning of May 21
🤝🏽 Come with a thought partner: a colleague, collaborator, or co-conspirator with whom you are practicing shared leadership—whether formally or informally
🌿 For both new and returning participants: offering grounding entry points and space for deeper practice
🏡 Make space to step away: from the urgency of daily demands to reflect, connect, and practice leadership in community
✨ Together, we’ll explore what it means to lead in ways that are relational, liberatory, and sustainable—strengthening both individual practice and the collective ecosystems we’re part of.

Applications close April 23rd. We’d love to be in practice with you. Because how we lead together shapes what becomes possible.

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Welcome!

Leadership in today’s incredibly volatile social and political landscape is both deeply meaningful and deeply demanding. As social justice leaders, you are navigating extraordinary uncertainty and complexity while holding responsibility for your teams, organizations, and movements.

Our liberatory leadership coaching circles are reflective, joyful, and generative spaces where social justice leaders from diverse movements can come together to find fresh opportunities to learn, reflect, and grow both individually and in partnership. We welcome both new participants and alumni of our virtual coaching circles, and ask that participants apply with a colleague from their organization (whether you are peers or work across different levels of leadership). 

Your chosen partner is someone you collaborate with on a regular basis as this circle will particularly focus on collaborative leadership. We will create space to deepen your own practice, and how you lead together.

Take a pause from your daily routine to deepen your leadership practice and reconnect with the purpose and possibility that sustains our movements. Together, we will reflect, learn from one another, and cultivate practices of liberatory leadership grounded in love, rigor, and collective wisdom.

Our Program Offering 

The Spring 2026 coaching circle is designed to support social justice leaders in senior leadership positions. We strive to create a curated space where executive leaders can share their worries, seek peer support, and tap into their collective wisdom by sharing strategies and tools for leading in uncertain times.

Our coaches will facilitate spaces for peer coaching and break-out groups with Executive Directors, Co-Directors, and Non-ED/Leadership Bench (COOs, Deputy Directors, Program Directors).

We will reflect on questions and conversations, such as: 

  • What are the conversations that you're not having?
  • How can you build shared skills and language to support a thriving collaboration, and to sync in your ability to support your teams during these volatile and uncertain times? 
  • What is your risk tolerance, and how are you syncing in your assessment and decision-making as it relates to risk?


As members of our Coaching Circle you and your colleague will receive:

  • Food and accommodation for 3 days & 3 nights in New Orleans, LA should you choose to stay on site. 
  • Three joint leadership coaching sessions with our expert coaches and/or a healing justice practitioner. These sessions will be done virtually with your colleague after the conclusion of the in-person retreat.
  • Two EQi-2.0 sessions where you will review the results of your emotional quotient inventory and generate action steps to inform your leadership plan. These virtual sessions will be done individually after the conclusion of the in-person retreat.
  • A physical copy of The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier.
  • Unlimited access to our Love & Liberation Hub, Leadership Reimagined’s online community & resource library, where leaders can form deeper connections, find resources, share strategies, and more!
  • Other free gifts! 

Apply by April 23rd at 11:59pm PT. 
Important Note: We ask that each partner fill out the form individually.

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What is a Liberatory Leadership Coaching Circle?

You will join a cohort of leaders in sessions facilitated by our coaches and healing justice practitioners. Each coaching circle session will introduce a topic for learning, reflection and discussion with peers. It will also incorporate a peer coaching exercise where you will have opportunities to learn and practice peer coaching skills in support of your fellow cohort members.

Here are some of the topics we may cover during our time together:

  • Understanding Your Leadership Journey
  • What Does Liberatory Leadership Look Like?
  • Leading in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous (VUCA) World
  • Practicing Love and Rigor
  • Building Resilient Futures
  • Developing Your Reflective Leadership Practice
  • Creating Your Leadership Development Plan

Application Process

  1. Application Deadline: All applications must be received by April 23rd at 11:59 pm PT.
  2. Acceptance Notifications: Applicants will be notified of the status of their application by April 27th.
  3. Payment & Enrollment: Accepted applicants must confirm their enrollment by May 4th.
  4. Deadline to Book Travel: We will connect you with a travel agent, please confirm details by May 8th.
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How We're Resourcing This Work

We believe in making liberatory leadership development accessible while also honoring the decades of experience, care, and energy our team brings to this work.

We are working with philanthropic partners to fully cover the cost of participation. Grantee partners of the following funders may be able to have their enrollment fully covered: 

  • Hive Fund for Climate & Gender Justice
  • Irving Harris Foundation
  • Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
  • Ms. Foundation for Women

Not funded by one of our philanthropic partners? Feel free to use this template letter to start a conversation with your funders. Please also let us know of your interest in this or future coaching circles by filling out this form. 

Meet Your Coaches & Facilitators

Elisabeth (Lisa) Garrett Keiser
Org Development & Leadership Coach

Lead & Co-Founder, Leadership Reimagined

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Faith Bynoe, MDiv, RYT
Healing Justice Practitioner

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Inca Mohamed
Org Development & Leadership Coach

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Miki Poy
Project Management Consultant 

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Heather Lightening
Event Planner 

What People Are Saying About Us

"We have an expression in Spanish that translated is something like 'The solution is collective.'

It’s not individual, and I think you can feel that in [the circle]. When you share your problems, there are a lot of people that can offer you some perspective, some solutions, something that they tried. We took from each session some things that were really useful in our daily work or daily life."

— Nair

"Traditionally, leaders are socialized to think that we have to have all the answers; this program reminded me that this isn't true.

The program offered me opportunities to be in deep reflection about my leadership. It reminded me to step out of my own head and to practice curiosity. I learned new ways to lean on others for support when navigating the complexities of leadership (like peer support). I also learned how to support my team through practices like open-ended questions. I would recommend it so more people in leadership don’t succumb to the pressures of how we are socialized. It was a reminder that liberation is always a collaborative effort and that we can do good work and bring the best out in our teams, so we don't feel so overwhelmed in our roles.

— Celine

About Leadership Reimagined™

Grounded in the principles of love and liberation, our mission is to help build leaderful movements with the vision and power to transform the world.

Leadership Reimagined™ was founded by two BIPOC women, Lisa Garrett Keiser and Elsa Ríos; seasoned organizational development practitioners and coaches. We bring together an amazing roster of community faculty with deep experience in healing justice, conflict transformation, and organizational and leadership development to provide leadership coaching, peer leadership support and learning labs to advance social justice leadership, especially for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities. Learn more about our offerings at www.leadership-reimagined.org.

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