Featured Announcements and Events
Our grant program offer a unique opportunity to make lasting progress on your organization’s biggest challenges. Learn more and apply today!
Join us on October 1 for a launch event to celebrate the release of the Kansas Leadership Center’s first publication in Spanish, Comienza Contigo.
Join us October 15 for a special discussion on Winston Churchill, leadership and resilience with New York Times best-selling author Erik Larson.
At Third Floor Research,
we are asking the question: What kind of leadership does it take to tackle future challenges in an increasingly changing, complex and unpredictable world?
To support our partner organizations and ensure that our training remains accessible, our signature training programs have moved online for the rest of the year. We continue to provide free, interactive online training, open to anyone each week. And you may purchase our books, training guides and other leadership products through the KLC store. Scroll down and explore our offerings below.
Online Events Calendar
We offer weekly online learning sessions in English and Spanish and host civic discussion events.
Partner Support
Virtual services to address existing leadership challenges and respond to the public health crisis.
Civic Issues Journalism
Stories from The Journal, our nationally award-winning magazine covering civic issues in Kansas
Online Store
Books, magazines and merchandise as well as tools for teaching and learning adaptable for any setting.
Response to COVID-19
Read about our efforts to serve the common good in Kansas and beyond during a public health crisis.
Your Leadership Edge Online
A complete training course. Learn and practice our leadership framework at any time, at your own pace.
The KLC Path
EMBARK ON YOUR LEADERSHIP JOURNEY
Anyone can lead, anytime, and anywhere. Our leadership path will teach you how. Change the way you manage yourself and mobilize others. Transform your leadership skills and become more effective in solving problems with our three-step leadership development path.
What makes the Kansas Leadership Center different?
Leadership is a skill that can be developed through learning and practice. The principles and competencies covered at KLC can help anyone hone the skills needed to successfully confront problems that exist in organizations and communities. KLC is different in that it focuses on helping people from all positions, backgrounds and sectors learn the same four competencies of leadership.
We believe leadership is an activity, not a position, and anyone can learn to exercise leadership at any time. KLC has trained thousands of people worldwide around these four competencies which help people better diagnose problems and situations, manage themselves, energize others around a common purpose and intervene in ways that are more skillful and successful.
Register to redefine leadership today.
A PROVEN FRAMEWORK
SPACE TO PRACTICE
CHALLENGE AND SUPPORT
A PLAN OF ACTION
Some of our partners include:
Our Programs
To ensure that our training remains accessible during the pandemic, our programs will be offered as virtual experiences for the rest of 2020. To learn more about our offerings during the pandemic, click here. To access our free, daily interactive training, visit our online calendar.
Your Leadership Edge
STEP 1: GROW YOURSELF
A 2-day foundational training that introduces core concepts in KLC’s powerful leadership framework.
Lead for Change
STEP 2: MOBILIZE OTHERS
Continue learning with this multi-session. Deepen your skills and confidence to engage others.
Equip to Lead
Learn to build a culture of leadership where you live, work or volunteer in this 2-day program.
Avanzando Juntos
Aprenderá a ver el liderazgo de manera diferente inscribiéndose en el único programa en español de KLC.
Intensives
Journal Talks
Kansan Portraits: A Legacy of Leadership
Explore our ongoing blog series of historic Kansans whose work and lives have honored the notion that leadership is an activity, not a position.
