2-hour webinar

Feeling uncertain about AI's role in your conservation agency? You're not alone!

Whether you're curious, cautious, or completely overwhelmed by artificial intelligence, this webinar cuts through the tech jargon to show how AI can become your practical ally in wildlife management.

Here's the reality: your team is probably already experimenting with AI tools, whether there's an official policy or not.

Join us to gain the leadership clarity you need to establish smart boundaries, identify genuine opportunities, and guide your conservation work through this technological shift.

Return to your agency with straightforward strategies that enhance your conservation impact while preserving the irreplaceable human expertise that makes your work truly meaningful.

2-hour webinar

What if burnout isn’t the problem but rather a signal? In this interactive session, we’ll move beyond surface-level self-care to identify the deeper emotional and systemic challenges facing conservation professionals today. Hint: it’s not burnout or imposter syndrome—it’s much more.

Using the Connect, Encourage, Thrive (CET) model, participants will reflect on real pressures in their work, explore what is lacking, and start identifying meaningful steps toward a healthier, more supportive culture. This session combines storytelling, reflection, dialogue, and a nature-based grounding practice to foster truth-telling, healing, and quiet courage.

This isn’t about fixing everything. It’s about finally naming it—and choosing one small, powerful step forward.

• Identify emotional and systemic challenges impacting their well-being and teams
• Apply the CET model to assess what kind of support is needed
• Engage in reflection and dialogue to reduce isolation and surface shared truths
• Explore small, actionable shifts to foster connection, clarity, and cultural healing

3-hour webinar

What if conflict isn’t a problem to fix, but a portal for growth? This webinar introduces conflict transformation—a relational, values-based approach that goes beyond managing tension. Explore how conflict often stems from identity, values, and power, and learn how to respond with clarity, presence, and compassion. Facilitator Jyotsna Maan shares her original framework—the 8 C’s of Conflict Transformation—to help you navigate complex or emotionally charged situations. Ideal for anyone facing recurring conflict in teams, communities, or personal relationships, this session offers reflection, insight, and an invitation into a deeper workshop experience. Discover how shifting your mindset around conflict can lead to stronger connection, deeper repair, and more grounded leadership.

2-hour webinar

• Define forms of stress
• Outline stress in the conscious and unconscious to clarify action
• Learn the four greatest personal fears and how they affect stress
• Practice uncovering deep personal judgments that often cause undue stress

2-hour webinar

Clear boundaries and expectations improve personal and professional relationships, reduce stress, improve morale and provide a powerful framework to get work done efficiently and effectively.

• Determine personal values as the key to creating boundaries
• Discuss ways to develop team operating values and behaviors
• Identify what prevents us from setting boundaries both personally and professionally
• Make a commitment to setting at least one new boundary and discuss how to communicate it

3-hour webinar

Conservation work is evolving rapidly. Leaders today are expected to navigate not only environmental challenges but also deep social shifts and systemic complexity. It’s clear we need new ways of leading—ways that are more adaptive, purpose-driven, and aligned with the interconnected nature of the work itself.

Chaordic Leadership offers one such path. Coined by Dee Hock, founder of Visa, the term “chaordic” blends chaos and order to describe leadership that thrives in the fertile space between the two. It’s a way of leading that values emergence over control, shared purpose over rigid plans, and wholeness over perfection.

This webinar is a reflective learning experience—designed not to teach tools or techniques, but to help you explore the philosophy of Chaordic Leadership and whether it resonates with how you already show up (or want to show up) as a leader.

• Discover the origins and core ideas behind Chaordic Leadership
• Explore the tension between chaos and order—and why the in-between space is where innovation happens
• Reflect on your personal leadership experiences and how they align with chaordic principles
• Connect with others navigating similar complexity in conservation work
• Be invited to consider whether this is a leadership path you want to explore more deeply

• You’ve sensed the limits of top-down control or rigid frameworks in your leadership work
• You’re looking for a leadership approach that honors complexity, relationships, and shared purpose
• You’re curious about finding language and community around a way of leading that already feels natural to you
• You want to lead with more adaptability, integrity, and resilience—without burning out

2-hour Webinar

Conflict is inevitable and there is a simple process to guide you to shared understanding and compromise. During this webinar, we will use a personal conflict situation to help us:

• Identify different types of conflict
• Apply a conflict resolution model to resolve personal or professional conflict
• Explain a process to get “unstuck” from a stressful situation
• Illustrate similarities to two other popular conflict resolution models

2-hour Webinar

Progress requires cooperation. This webinar will help you identify and use language that inspires cooperation within your teams. We will practice iterative listening and will leverage reactions to statements and/or personal experiences to help us:

• Use shared meaning to reach shared goals
• Discuss assertive versus controlling language
• Learn the importance of ordinal process for everyone to be heard
• Cite at least three differences between resistant and non-resistant language

2-hour webinar

Meeting planning and closing a meeting aren't just a formality – these are crucial steps that set the tone for action and ongoing engagement. In this webinar, we delve into the art of meeting planning, wrapping up meetings on a high note, and ensuring that participants leave with a sense of accomplishment and motivation. We will explore practical strategies to make your meetings and their closures more impactful and productive.

• Discover tips for effective meeting planning
• Learn how to estimate agenda times and prioritize discussions
• Explore check-ins that invite feelings and gain insights
• Learn the importance of summarizing meeting achievements and addressing unmet objectives
• Understand how commitments lead to increased follow-through

2, 2-hour webinars

This two-part, story-centered webinar invites participants to explore the foundations of stewardship and relevancy through the lens of environmental identity and a nature-based model.

Participants will reflect on the personal roots of their connection to nature, share their environmental identity stories, and consider how their own lens shapes the way they relate to land, wildlife, and people. The nature-based model will be introduced as a tool for identifying strengths, gaps, and growth areas—personally and professionally.

This experience is designed to foster awareness, humility, and insight—building the inner capacity needed to connect with others across difference, lead with authenticity, and reimagine stewardship that reflects the depth and breadth of our communities and landscapes.

• Clarify and express their environmental identity through storytelling and reflection
• Explore how personal history shapes connection to nature, stewardship, and relevancy
• Gain tools to better connect across a variety of experiences and perspectives
• Identify ways to align personal identity with professional conservation practice

Note for returning participants: This is a concentrated version of the four-part Human-Nature Connection series. If you’ve attended before, the material will be familiar—though more storytelling-focused.

2-hour webinar

This dynamic and interactive webinar is designed to redefine leadership as a renewable resource, essential for fostering both personal and organizational success. This is about moving beyond self-care toward building a system that helps people navigate challenging work while maintaining balance. Participants will delve into the distinction between self-care and capacity building, exploring how to intentionally expand their leadership "reservoir" through mindset shifts and targeted strategies. The session will emphasize the ripple effects of increased leadership capacity on team productivity, organizational culture, and long-term sustainability.

Through a combination of discussion, practical exercises, and energy management techniques, attendees will learn to recognize the signs and impacts of limited capacity, both in themselves and within their teams. They will identify personal and organizational barriers to capacity-building and gain hands-on experience with tools that promote sustainable growth in leadership.

• Understand the distinction between self-care and capacity-building
• Recognize the signs and impacts of limited capacity
• Identify barriers to capacity-building
• Learn and practice tools for expanding leadership capacity

• Enhanced awareness of the critical role of capacity-building in sustainable leadership
• Practical strategies for aligning high-priority tasks with personal energy peaks
• Improved ability to foster a culture of continuous growth and resilience within teams
• Actionable steps for integrating capacity-building practices into daily routines

2-hour webinar

Let's be honest - you earned your position because you're great at what you do. But now, your job isn't just about having all the answers - it's about developing a team that can tackle challenges when you're not around. In this interactive session, you'll learn (and practice!) seven powerful questions that transform you from expert problem-solver to skilled team coach. Perfect for wildlife managers who want their staff to tackle challenges independently - whether in the field, office, or remote locations. Leave with practical coaching tools that work in real-world conservation settings and finally break that "let me just tell you how to do it" habit!

4, 2-hour webinars

Are you ready to open to people who have relationships with nature different from your own? Join us for a four-part series that will explore and challenge your beliefs about access and nature. We will consider a nature-based model to examine our own relationship with nature and dig into environmental identity. We will contemplate ways to converse with and embrace the experiences of anyone we meet outdoors while minimizing harm. The end goal is to pursue ways to move people from tourists to explorers and advocates of our land, water, and wildlife.

This series evolved from 2020 workshops called Beyond #ResponsibleRecreation to Human-nature connection. Anonymous data from these past participants will be sprinkled throughout.

The first session will focus on homework reflection, self-awareness, and self-care regarding nature. We will acknowledge ways our environmental identities develop. The second session will uncover access and dive deeper into aspects of environmental identity. We will be claiming our own environmental identities in session three. We will also finish our discussion of the nature-based model, including a gaze into transcendence and putting humans in perspective to nature. The final session will include an introduction to a nature relationship spectrum and a fishing program using the nature-based. It will conclude with breakouts to consider how to incorporate series concepts into agency relevancy.

What to expect:

• A pre-homework assignment and completion of a survey with your homework reflection is required for access to the series. We will provide modifications to anyone who cannot get outside.
• An environmental identity assignment between session 2 and 3.
• Engagement through a combination of breakouts, polls, and chat.
• Reflection on the previous workshop at the beginning of each new session.
• Small mindfulness and presence activities conducted throughout.
• A compiled list of ideas for agency relevancy discussed during the sessions.

Please note that this series was carefully designed to be effective with all four sessions.

Internal dialogue gives us clues to our deepest thinking. Learning to capture and use this dialogue improves emotional intelligence and leads to better conversations. During this webinar, we will learn and practice techniques to uncover our internal dialogue.

• Practice iterative listening
• Capture primal thoughts and feelings
• Turn personal triggers into useful responses
• Explain feelings of inferiority common to all humans

2-hour webinar

This condensed session is designed for conservation professionals seeking to enhance their skills in public engagement and community building within the sector. Through focused discussions, interactive exercises, and practical strategy development, participants will gain valuable insights and tools to navigate the unique challenges of conservation work.

• Discuss the significance of establishing rules of engagement for public interactions and meetings, and explore practical strategies for handling public attacks and contentious dialogues.
• Recognize the value of building supportive communities within the conservation sector and identify actionable steps to cultivate and nurture these networks for mutual support and resilience.

• Importance of rules of engagement in conservation work
• Strategies for effective communication in high-pressure situations
• The role of supportive networks in professional resilience
• Personal action planning for implementing learned strategies

This session offers a blend of expert-led discussions, small group collaborations, and individual reflection. It is ideal for conservation leaders, field workers, and anyone in the sector dealing with public-facing roles.

3, 2-hour webinars

Learn how to write your next Federal Aid report, briefing paper, or just about any other document using 25-30% fewer words, in plain English, and without losing any critical content. This webinar series includes numerous exercises to practice the techniques you learn and time to apply what you learn to one of your own documents. You will finally understand how writing in active voice uses fewer words to say what you want to say more directly and concisely. This webinar series meets three times, with homework assignments after each webinar session.

2-hour Webinar

Have you ever thought about the value of working more closely with the public as you go about your work? Whose resources are we managing?Join us as we explore this idea of involving the public in our work. We’ll examine what it means, why we should consider it and then review some best practices to help us try it out. We will draw on several resources including Bleikers’ Systematic Development of Informed Consent, materials from the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2), and a book by James L. Creighton, “The Public Participation Handbook”. According to Hans Bleiker of the Institute for Participatory Management and Planning, some of our projects will be doomed without public involvement. In today’s world that is a valid and sobering concern. Many state fish and wildlife agencies use public participation techniques in a variety of ways to inform, consult, involve, collaborate and/or empower stakeholders.

• Show why public involvement is mission-critical
• Identify the elements of fostering relationships and successful conservation projects

1-hour webinar

In today’s fast-paced, results-driven world, leadership often focuses on appearance and output. Lasting leadership, however, starts below the surface. This session introduces the Rooted to Rise leadership model, employing a powerful tree metaphor to explore what nourishes authentic leadership from the inside out. Through visual frameworks, group dialogue, and guided reflection, we’ll begin naming what we want to grow—and what we need to unlearn as leaders who can lead through uncertainty.

• Identifying characteristics of hollow vs whole leadership
• Clarifying personal leadership longings and growth edges
• Naming what may be getting in the way of your leadership goals
• Intro to Rooted to Rise Leadership Model to develop your core leadership

Who is this session for? Emerging or seasoned leaders who are ready to grow but unsure how to lead in today’s shifting landscape.

2-hour webinar

In today’s fast-paced work culture, unclear boundaries lead to burnout, stress, and miscommunication. Whether it's after-hours emails, constant interruptions, or an overwhelming workload, workplace boundaries are essential for both well-being and productivity.

This interactive webinar provides practical strategies to identify, set, and communicate professional boundaries that align with your workplace values. Through reflection, discussion, and a Boundary Mapping Exercise, participants will gain clarity on their strongest and weakest boundaries, learn how to assert them effectively, and handle pushback with confidence.

• Identify their strongest and weakest workplace boundaries
• Learn the 4-step formula for clearly communicating boundaries
• Explore how to align boundaries with workplace values
• Develop strategies for handling resistance and guilt
• Create a personalized boundary action plan to implement immediately

2-hour webinar

Do you feel buried under mundane tasks while your important projects fall behind? In this interactive session, discover how to build a high-trust team that gets things done without your constant oversight. You'll learn field-tested delegation strategies that work in conservation settings and receive our practical Trust in Action Guide. Perfect for managers ready to shift from doing everything themselves to leading an empowered team.

2-hour webinar

In conservation, we often lead with data, policy, and science—but it's stories that move hearts, shift mindsets, and build trust.

In this lively and interactive 2-hour webinar, we’ll explore how storytelling isn't just a leadership skill—it's your superpower. Whether you see yourself as a seasoned communicator or a quiet leader, you’ll learn to shape compelling stories that inspire action, build trust, and connect across differences.

We'll dive into the magic of the Hero’s Journey, play with Pixar’s storytelling secrets, and practice sharing stories in a supportive space. Come ready to laugh, reflect, connect—and discover that you’ve been a storyteller all along.

You don’t need slides. You don’t need polish. Just your story.

• Understand the role of storytelling as a leadership skill in conservation work
• Gain new insights into your own leadership journey through the Hero’s Journey
• Learn to craft compelling narratives using the Hero’s Journey and Pixar’s story formula
• Connect with fellow leaders through story sharing and reflection

Access a toolkit to bring stories into your work, your team, and your community.