Introducing Our Shared Leadership Model | Educopia Institute, September 29, 2022

"The Educopia Institute is excited to announce effective October 1, 2022 Racquel Asante, Katherine Kim, and Jessica Meyerson will serve Educopia Institute as co-directors.  Since publishing our Shaping Change post in July, staff members Racquel Asante, Katherine Kim, and Jessica Meyerson submitted a proposal to the board for a co-director executive leadership model that outlined key organizational benefits co-director models of executive leadership including organizational resilience, fiscal responsibility, values alignment, and risk management. The proposal addressed the division of Executive Director/CEO responsibilities among co-directors, internal governance between co-directors and Board, communications and reporting structure, succession planning, decision making, assessment, the known challenges the model seeks to address, and subsequent organizational change that the model hopes to enable.  The proposal came at a time when the Board was thinking deeply about its governance role and its collaborative relationship with the Educopia staff. Board president Kathleen Fitzpatrick notes that “during the course of our development work it became clear to us that the time was right to think differently about the nature of leadership for the organization, to move away from reliance on a single visionary executive director and toward a shared leadership model that could both better manifest Educopia’s values and make the organization more resilient.” In conjunction with the development of the co-director proposal to the Board, members of the Board and Staff completed a series of interviews with co-directors of organizations that are currently practicing a co-director model of executive leadership including RVC, ProInspire, Kindred Connections Society, and Change Elemental...."