Our original research set out to explore the role that powerful leadership development programs played in the overall leadership journeys of successful Jewish leaders. Across more than 80 interviews, we learned a lot about leadership journeys and the role that programs and experiences played during critical inflection points in the journeys of Jewish leaders. Across the interviews, leaders cited several key elements of their cohort-based learning experiences that were particularly powerful. Here, we explore those with a shifted focus toward how each can be leveraged for network building, and how each can be expanded or reimagined in order to move the sector toward interdependence. Specifically, we explore the following principles:
Throughout each of the sections below, we examine these design elements and their critical importance to program design through two additional lenses: through a reflection on the power inherent in each, and through a reflection on how attention to each helps envision the future network.
