Intentional Leadership
Online Course
Intentional leadership means leading with purpose and awareness. Intentional leadership enables the people you lead to thrive.
Intentional leadership means leading with purpose and awareness.
Intentional leadership enables the people you lead to thrive.
The next live group sessions run from January 10 to February 14, 2022.
See below for more details.
Intentional Leadership
In this course, you’ll learn our system for Intentional Leadership. There are different ways of thinking about leadership. Many think of it as one person exerting power over others, but this is a very unhealthy view. My approach to leadership is different. I think it’s in everyone’s best interests when leadership creates a healthy group environment and is intentional, as I explain below.
Leadership is INTENTIONAL when it is...
- Done with purpose
Your acts as a leader are in alignment with your group’s shared goals and values.
- Done with awareness
Instead of acting on auto-pilot, you act with awareness of how you’re leading and its likely long-term consequences.
- Done with a sense of choice
With a greater understanding of the different ways to lead, you have more opportunity to choose your leadership styles according to the outcomes you seek.
- Done by design, not luck
You’re not an effective leader by luck, you’re effective by design. You intentionally develop strategies that are more likely to produce the group outcomes you are seeking.
- Done with the long-term in mind
Long-term effects and outcomes are given more weight than short-term fleeting gains.
- Liberating
Instead of doing things because you were told “that’s what leaders do”, your new understanding of leadership frees you to experiment with new strategies that benefit everyone.
The Leadership Superpowers
Intentional Leadership is the goal. In this course, you’ll learn how to develop your Leadership Superpowers – the knowledge and strategies that make Intentional Leadership possible. We’ve integrated different areas of leadership and psychological research to develop these Leadership Superpowers and our approach to strengthening them. Once you understand the Leadership Superpowers, you’ll see leadership differently – your own leadership and that of others. It will become easier for you to determine what’s needed to make it easier for group members to do what they intrinsically want to do: their best work in the service of a social group or organization that they care about. This is what the leadership superpowers are all about.
The 5 leadership superpowers are...
- Self Leadership
How you lead yourself to be intentionally productive is important practice for how you lead others. And if you’re unproductive, you’ll simply be less effective at taking action on your group’s behalf.
- Group Identity Leadership
You’re leading a group of people who share certain values, beliefs, goals, etc. The cohesiveness of your group around this shared identity can strongly influence your group’s collective productivity.
- Productivity Leadership
One of your core tasks as a leader is to make it easier for your group’s members to individually and collectively work towards the group’s goals.
- Relationship Leadership
The quality and strength of connections between you, group members, and the group’s vision all influence people’s motivation and ability to be productive.
- Feedback Leadership
- Feedback Leadership
Going with your gut will often take you in the wrong direction. You also need to collect the right types of feedback from your group and external environment so that you can adjust how you use your other leadership superpowers as needed.
This course is for you if you want to...
- Become aware of how well you're doing on core leadership activities
- Take the actions needed to create a productive and healthy group environment
- Be looked to by group members for support and guidance
- Remove obstacles to your group members’ productive action
- Leverage shared organizational values to mobilize action
This course is for leaders in ALL domains
- The Intentional Leadership model focuses on the core leadership processes that are critical for leading all types of group action – for-profit, nonprofit, and social action
- Leaders in the for-profit world will learn how to lead in a way that helps group members to find meaning and satisfaction in their work
- Leaders in the nonprofit world will learn how to keep all stakeholders actively engaged
- Leaders trying to lead social movements will learn how to turn a shared vision for the future into productive and lasting social change
Which course to start with?
- If you're interested in both the Intentional Productivity and Intentional Leadership Courses, I recommend that you start with the Intentional Productivity course. The Intentional Productivity system is actually central to the Intentional Leadership system, which partly involves applying Intentional Productivity strategies to yourself (Self Leadership) and the people you're trying to lead (Productivity Leadership).
Course Pricing & Package Options
Since 2015, I’ve been developing and honing the Intentional Leadership system. I came to the current pricing for the course based on the amount of work I’ve done in the past and the amount that I continue to put into refining the system, the amount of time it took to create course materials (and to continue refining them as needed), and the time I’ll spend with you in the course, both through the discussion forum and through live group sessions (if you choose that option). I think you’ll see that I’ve put a lot of time and effort into this course: from the hand-drawn images that capture key concepts, to the concise instructional videos, to the reflection exercises, to the various online forms and tools that you receive in the course. All are things that I developed myself and that you won’t find elsewhere.
But ultimately, the most important thing to me is that the knowledge and strategies from this course get into the hands of people trying to do good work, which is why I attempted to make the pricing reasonable and fair for people in different circumstances through different course packages and options for discounted pricing. In addition, all courses come with a 60-day, 100% Money-Back Guarantee so that you can be confident your money will be put to good use.
30-Day, 100% Money-Back Guarantee
I don’t want concerns that a program won’t work for you to prevent you from giving it a try. I’m confident in the quality and effectiveness of my programs; If within 30 days of purchasing the program you are unsatisfied with it for any reason, I will be happy to give you a full refund, no questions asked. Just email me at matt@productiveforgood.org to request the refund.
Course Packages
I want the content of this course to be accessible to as many people as possible because I strongly believe these leadership strategies will benefit you, the people you lead, and the organization you serve. One thing I’ve done to make the course more accessible is to break it into different packages that better fit people’s available time and finances.
Self-Paced: The Self-Paced course package gives you online access to the Intentional Leadership course content so that you can work through it at your own pace. The Self-Paced course includes concise instructional videos (typically 15-20 min long), hand-drawn images for easy review of key concepts, reflection exercises, and online forms/tools. You can also get feedback from me and others as you progress through the course via the private discussion forum. You will have unlimited access to the course materials into the future, including updates and additions to the primary course materials.
Live Group Sessions: The Live Group Sessions course package gives you access to the online course and also has live sessions over 6 weeks in which I delve a bit deeper into course content and answer your questions. These sessions are recorded for revisiting later or for those unable to make the live sessions. You can begin working through the content by yourself before the live sessions begin or wait until the live sessions begin. The live group sessions usually take place on Mondays at 12:00pm ET/9:00am PT. The next live 6-week session dates are TBD. If you register for the Live Group Sessions course package now you’ll have access to the next 6-week series or can choose to participate in any future series after that. With the Live Group Session package, you will also be able to sit in on future Live Group Sessions for free in order to get a refresher on course content.
Guide Certificate: The certificate program is for those who want to be Leadership Guides. These are people trained to help guide people through the Intentional Leadership system. Guides can also help point their own clients or students towards the resources they most need in their own leadership. In order to complete certification, students will need to work through the Intentional Leadership course content, participate in or observe one 6-week series of Live Group Sessions, participate in a 4-week Live Guide Training program (next session dates TBD), and complete a Guide Project in which they guide some other person in need of help with their leadership through the Intentional Leadership system. There is no deadline for project completion, so students can take the time they need.
Course Package Summary
What you get
Self-Paced
Live Group Sessions
Guide Certificate
Concise videos on concepts and strategies
Digital & printable tools to help you implement course strategies
Free access to future updates & additions to core course materials
Lifetime access to online discussion forum with peers and instructor
6 live group sessions (+ free audits of future live group sessions)
Guide-specific videos, exercises, & other resources
4 live guide training sessions
Weekly time commitment
30-60 min/wk (videos, exercises)
30-60 min/wk + 60 min weekly group session
30-60 min/wk + 60 min weekly group session + time for guide project
Course Package Summary
Self-Paced
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Videos & exercises
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Digital & printable tools
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Free access to future updates & additions
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Discussion forum access
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Time needed: 30-60 min/wk (videos, exercises)
Live Group Sessions
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Videos & exercises
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Digital & printable tools
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Free access to future updates & additions
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Discussion forum access
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6 live group sessions
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Time needed: 30-60 min/wk + 60 min weekly group session
Guide Certificate
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Videos & exercises
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Digital & printable tools
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Discussion forum access
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Free access to future updates & additions
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6 live group sessions
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Guide-specific videos, exercises, & other resources
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Time needed: 30-60 min/wk + 60 min weekly group session + time for guide project
Discounted Pricing Options
In order for Intentional Productivity and Intentional Leadership to be used for the good of all, it needs to be accessible to all. Yet we live in a world that has inequity embedded into it. The social and political forces that shape our lives concentrate resources, wealth, and opportunities into the hands of a few, to the detriment of the many. Systemic inequities and racism continue to hurt BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ people, as well as disabled people, refugees, and migrant workers. Our discounted pricing options reflect a desire to actively work against this inequitable distribution of resources and opportunities, regardless of whether you can or cannot comfortably afford to pay the normal course rate. If you fit in one (or more) of these groups, please take a look at the discounted pricing options. We also offer discounted rates for people working in a nonprofit, in education (as educator or student), doing social justice work, or doing ecological justice work. If you are in one or more of these groups that are eligible for a discount but prefer to pay the normal rate for any reason, that’s completely your choice.
We recognize that these rates, even when discounted, may still be uncomfortably high for some. We also recognize that many are currently facing financial hardship. If you worry that the cost would make it difficult for you to afford necessary monthly expenses (e.g., rent, utilities, groceries), then email matt@productiveforgood.org so that we can explore other payment options. If you feel a need for a particular program, we don’t want money to be a barrier.
Group Packages Available
One-on-One Executive Coaching
If you want to work with me to tailor this system to your own work situation and the specific obstacles that you run into, take a look at our Executive Coaching page for details.
Add-On Pricing
If you prefer to start with just the Self-Paced program before trying the Live Weekly Group program, or perhaps you decide that you want to do the Guide Certificate program after having done the Self-Paced or Live Weekly Group program months or years ago, you can individually add the additional programs you need using the links below. Note that the Guide Certificate program requires that you do the Live Weekly Group sessions as well, so if you only did the Self-Paced program in the past, you would need to then do both the Live Weekly Group program and the Guide Certificate programs below.
- Pre-requisite for Live Weekly Group Program: Self-Paced Course
- Pre-requisites for Guide Certificate Program: Self-Paced Course & Live Weekly Group Program
In summary, if you’re completely new to the Intentional Leadership course and haven’t done any of the programs before, then you can ignore this chart and focus on the Course Package Summary above. But if you’ve completed the Intentional Leadership course in the past and now want to go deeper with the Live Weekly Group program and/or the Guide Certificate program, below is the pricing for those additions. Note that you can only use the links below if you’ve already completed the prerequisite program(s). If you have questions about any of this, please email matt@productiveforgood.org.
Live Weekly Group
Add-On
Guide Certificate
Add-On
Live Weekly Group +
Guide Certificate*
Add-On
Live Weekly Group Add-On
$150
Guide Certificate
Add-On
$925
Live Weekly Group +
Guide Cert*
Add-On
$1025
As with the normal package pricing, discounted rates are available for Add-On programs to those who qualify. Please visit the discounted pricing page for more details.
