Community members creating a thriving Whidbey Island.
If you want to join a network of community leaders who share a common goal of community stewardship, sign up for the coming Leadership Whidbey program year.
Applications for the class of 2025 are being
ACCEPTED NOW
on a space-available basis.
Our Mission
Inspire, connect, and catalyze leaders to engage in creating a thriving Whidbey Island
Each Fall, Leadership Whidbey selects up to twenty applicants representing the private, public, and non-profit sectors across Whidbey Island for a seven-month intensive leadership development program. Our goal is to create a network of leaders whose increased awareness and commitment to serve our communities will energize and shape Whidbey Island’s future.
Guiding Principles & Themes for
Leadership Whidbey:
1. Deepen Connection to Whidbey Island: recognize histories & legacies; explore ecology; discover built environment & institutions; connect to interpersonal/organizational networks.
2. Develop Self: clarify values; engage in reflective leadership practice; recognize creative and reactive traits; develop vision and find voice.
3. Build Capacity to work with others: develop teams; engage difference; lean into difficult conversations; practice through Community Adaptive Leadership Lab (CALL).
4. Embrace Complexity and Uncertainty: identify systemic issues and inequality; apply adaptive leadership frames; seek justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
5. Take Collective Action: communicate vision; engage relationships and resources to co-create; create a more just, healthy, and sustainable future.