The Center for Community Leadership & Nonprofit Excellence Invites You and Your Team to Attend:
Empathetic Leadership:
Part 2 in the Empathetic Workplace Training Series

Empathy is the key to trust, creativity, productivity, and loyalty. This session covers the steps we can take to build a culture of empathy for a stronger workplace, more productive teams, and a healthier workforce.

Training presented by Katharine Manning, author of The Empathetic Workplace: Five Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job.

This training will be presented by Katharine Manning, author of The Empathetic Workplace: Five Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job.

Katharine Manning is the President of Blackbird DC, which provides training, facilitation, and coaching on empathy at work, particularly in challenging times when it matters most. Katharine has advised organizations on working with those in trauma for more than twenty-five years, including fifteen years as a Senior Attorney Advisor at the Justice Department, where she worked on cases like Madoff, the Boston Marathon bombing, and the South Carolina AME Church shooting. Prior to her government service, she was an attorney in private practice representing Fortune 500 companies in class actions, insurance, and media cases. She teaches at American University and in the Masters in Trauma-Informed Leadership Program at Dominican University, and is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Virginia School of Law.

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) announced the launch of READY Appalachia, a community capacity-building initiative offering flexible funding to Appalachian nonprofit organizations, community foundations, local governments, and Local Development Districts (LDDs), and free cohort-based learning and hands-on training to the Appalachians who work for them. Eligible participants can apply for one of READY Appalachia’s 10-week learning tracks, the first being READY Nonprofits, which is now accepting applications until August 19. This initiative is part of ARC’s larger investment priority of building community leaders and local capacity to effect long-lasting economic change, and is supported by funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Each of READY Appalachia’s learning tracks will help participating organizations hone skills, refine organizational operations, develop additional expertise, leverage unprecedented federal investment opportunities, access other financial resources, and generate innovative project ideas to address community issues. Upon completion, participating organizations can apply for match-free grants to scale and adapt existing work, launch ideas conceptualized during their learning track, and attract additional investment to fuel economic growth.