2011-2026 | CELEBRATING 15 YEARS
PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOP SERIES
An interactive workshop for organizations navigating high-stakes environments
In today’s volatile environment of fear, uncertainty, and harm, organizations are being tested. Should we operate under the radar? How do we protect our people while living our values? How much do we risk and remain financially viable? This workshop introduces a practical, values-centered framework for developing your organization’s strategic fitness in these times–helping your leadership team navigate power, calculate risk, and expand choice in difficult circumstances.
In a supportive setting grounded in real scenarios, collective reflection, and applied tools, your organization's decision-makers will gain:
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A shared language for discussing compliance and resistance
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Greater confidence in navigating power in high-stakes or ambiguous moments
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Practical tools to support personal, organizational, and community-level decision-making
Our Workshop
Build Your Organization’s Strategic Fitness
Leaders are asked to make difficult choices every day. Strategic Fitness is not about having all the answers. Growing your strategic fitness during this time of extraordinary volatility means exercising four muscle groups:
Assess Your Power and Strategic Position
Ability to continually assess your organization’s power by assessing your networks, practicing power mapping, and learning to distinguish between your public stand and your most authentic interests.
Identify and Interrupt Strategic Habits
Awareness of your organization’s strategic habits. Does your team tend to comply? Resist? Lay low? Take initiative? Becoming conscious and intentional about these patterns translates to more intentional strategic choices.
Define Your Organization’s Role and Priorities
Maintaining clarity about your organization’s role in meeting the moment. Not every organization can do everything needed to ease our country’s crisis. But every group can do something. Knowing your organization’s strengths and capacity, aligning around your highest-priority values, and understanding the range of roles organizations play in a shifting political landscape will strengthen your strategic fitness.
Build Alignment and Make Decisions Under Pressure
Building capacity to negotiate alignment under pressure. Group strategic thinking is essential, and your ability to facilitate strategic decision-making on your senior team is key to your strategic fitness.
The objective of the When to Comply and When to Resist workshop is to offer your board and leadership team practical tools and a supportive setting to navigate strategic minefields.
Using clear frameworks, real scenarios, and practical tools, the workshop helps participants assess risks, understand power dynamics, and make principled decisions that strengthen their leadership and their organizations.
Meet your Presenters
This workshop is offered by Dragonfly Partners, a consulting collective that partners with movement organizations, networks, and leaders advancing justice and liberation. As part of Dragonfly’s signature engagements and professional workshop series, it features co-creators as presenters; however, each can be facilitated by any Dragonfly Consulting Partner.
Rooted in a collaborative, curiosity-driven culture, they create an environment where participants feel supported, challenged, and equipped to apply what they learn long after the workshop ends.
