Collective leadership is a way of working together across people, teams, institutions, and sectors to address complex challenges.
Instead of placing responsibility on one leader or organization, it helps diverse actors build trust, shared direction, and joint ownership. This is especially important when no single actor can create change alone.
The Collective Leadership Compass is CLI’s core methodology for strengthening collaboration and leading transformation.
It helps individuals, teams, and multi-stakeholder initiatives reflect on six essential dimensions of collaboration: Humanity, Future Possibility, Engagement, Innovation, Collective Intelligence, and Wholeness.
The Compass is used in leadership development, partnership building, project design, strategy processes, and certification programs.
Read more on our Collective Leadership Compass.
The Dialogic Change Model is CLI’s process model for designing and implementing successful multi-stakeholder collaboration.
It helps teams move from fragmented conversations to structured collaboration, shared commitment, and sustainable implementation.
The model works across four phases:
It can be used at an individual, organizational, system, or process level, depending on where change needs to begin.
Read more about the Dialogic Change Model.
The Collective Feminist Principles support more inclusive, caring, and power-conscious forms of leadership and collaboration.
They help teams and organizations reflect on how power, participation, care, gender, and intersectionality shape the way people work together.
The principles are especially relevant for initiatives focused on gender justice, equity, social transformation, and inclusive leadership.
Learn more about the Collective Feminist Principles.
Open Courses:
Live and hybrid courses are open to individuals from around the world, including courses on collective leadership, stakeholder collaboration, process facilitation, feminist leadership, and transformative change.
Learn more here.
Certification Programme:
A structured pathway to become a certified Collective Leadership Specialist through foundation courses, advanced learning, practice, and reflection.
Learn more here.
On-Site Courses:
Tailored learning programs for organizations, teams, projects, or partnerships. These can be delivered in-person, online, hybrid, or across several locations.
Learn more here.
Most open courses do not require formal prerequisites.
What matters most is a genuine interest in collaboration, leadership, facilitation, systems change, or multi-stakeholder work.
Some advanced courses or certification steps may require previous participation in specific CLI courses or relevant practice experience.
Explore our courses and certification pathways.
LI courses and programs are mainly offered in English, German, French, and Spanish.
Depending on the context and available facilitators, programs may also be delivered or supported in other languages, including Arabic, Russian, and Ukrainian.
Interpretation can be arranged upon request.
You can register for open courses directly through the course page.
For cancellations, the refund policy depends on the timing of the cancellation. In general, earlier cancellations are eligible for higher refunds, while late cancellations may not be refundable.
The specific terms are shared during registration and may vary by course format.
Yes. CLI’s methodologies are designed for complex change processes across different sectors.
They have been applied in areas such as climate, health, education, governance, development cooperation, peacebuilding, gender equality, sustainability, and organizational transformation.
The content may change from one sector to another, but the core challenge is often similar: helping people collaborate more effectively across differences.
CLI supports organizations, networks, and initiatives in different ways, including:
Designing and planning transformation processes
Facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue and collaboration
Strengthening partnerships and project teams
Building leadership and facilitation capacities
Supporting strategy, reflection, and learning processes
Whether you are preparing a project, developing a tender, strengthening a partnership, or designing a change process, we would be glad to explore where CLI can add value.
Get in touch with us.