Dialogic Ledaership Institute

Lead Connection, Communication & Collaboration for Collective Change

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Make the shift.

The Dialogic Leadership Institute is a dialogue and coalition-building facilitation training program for leaders and consultants supporting diverse teams, communities, and coalitions through culture and systems change.

Whether you're leading a stakeholder engagement process, managing a new policy roll-out, or developing collaborative action plans, you need more than technical expertise. You need skills and tools to align hearts and minds and drive collective movement.

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If your work calls you to set the table, build the bridge, or lead the choir,
the Dialogic Leadership Institute is for you.

Program Participant Voices

  • "I appreciate walking away with new frameworks. As someone who tends to just jump in when something is important, it's great to combat the culture of urgency, and center relationships and collective learning first."

    Founder & Director,
    Empowered Mind Therapy Center

  • "My experience in this program has made me grow as a person and opened my eyes to new skills to help others communicate and hold conversations with confidence."

    Disability Services Consultant,
    Head Start & Early Learning

  • "One key takeaway I noticed during this training was that every activity had an intention that I could identify and see being applicable to holding difficult conversations and giving everyone a chance to be heard."

    Business Advisory Services Manager,
    Los Angeles County Office of Education

The Dialogic Leadership Institute is designed for:

  • Internal directors, administrators, committee chairs, or other leaders guiding change with multiple stakeholders, departments, or divisions.

  • External consultants or technical experts leading cross-sector partnerships or multi-stakeholder coalition projects.

  • Community engagement leaders leading community consultations and participatory strategic planning projects.

  • Social change advocates promoting equitable and inclusive leadership for change.

Skills & Tools for Collaborative Change Leaders

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    Transformative Dialogue FACILITATION

    Learn a people-centered approach to facilitate conversations that move through tension and beyond debate to develop shared trust, understanding, and transformative action.

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    Stakeholder Engagement & COALITION BUILDING

    Support diverse stakeholders and cross-sector coalitions to align around strategy and action while honoring their unique experiences, identities, needs, and perspectives.

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    Facilitative LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

    Grow your capacity to hold space for charged conversations and manage complex group dynamics through relationships, even in socially or politically sensitive environments.

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    Personalized Support & IMPLEMENTATION

    Get 1-on-1 coaching to apply tools and frameworks directly to real-world stakeholder engagement projects or processes in your specific context.

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Meet the Program Guide

Alan Wesley Goff is a collaborative change process consultant and facilitative leadership educator.

He works with people-centered leaders, consultants, organizers, and advocates to design and facilitate transformative dialogue and participatory action planning for change.

As the lead facilitiator of the Dialogic Leadership Institute, Alan draws on 20 years of facilitative leadership in education, community development, and organizational change.

He has a gift for deep listening to help individuals and groups to nurture and develop inner clarity and translate it into values-centered leadership.

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BEGINNING
July 2026

8 Weekly Online Sessions
(Join from anywhere)

Ready to lead collective evolution?

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 Common Questions

  • The Dialogic Leadership Institute is for experienced leaders and technical experts whose work requires them to facilitate communication and collaboration across perspectives, identities, and systems.

    Participants include:

    LEADERS

    • Directors, administrators, managers, and team leads

    • Department heads, committee members, board chairs, and task force leads

    EXPERTS & STRATEGISTS

    • Consultants, designers, and facilitators

    • Advisors, researchers, and planners

    ADVOCATES

    • Organizers, coalition builders, and cultural workers

    • Community advocates and engagement specialists

    You’re a fit for this program if you are:

    ✓ preparing to lead complex conversations and collaborative planning with multiple stakeholders, departments, or sectors

    ✓ designing or facilitating a collaborative, equity-focused project or coalition

    ✓ moving from technical expertise into higher leadership or consulting roles

    ✓ preparing to manage internal resistance or polarized dynamics around change

    ✓ seeking tools to create stakeholder buy-in and ownership for lasting impact

  • The full program cost is $1200 USD.

    To ensure equity and accessibility, individual participant program fees are determined based on sector, tenure, and organizational sponsorship capacity.

    Payment plans are also available.

    If the program is right for you, join the interest list and apply. We’ll work with you.

  • When you complete the program, you will join a growing community of program alumni and facilitative leaders committed to collective transformation.

    You will get access to alumni events, resources, coaching, and discounts on other programs and advanced workshops.

  • Send a message here. We’re happy to connect.

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