The Kansas Leadership Center offers three intensive courses for leadership developers. Each is a stand-alone program that may be taken in any order:
When Everyone Leads Facilitator Certification
Become certified to teach KLC’s popular When Everyone Leads one-day program in your setting.
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Advanced Leadership Development
Practice an experiential method that turns real-time interactions with a team or class into a case study for building leadership.
Leadership Coach
Your path to professional coaching or a coach approach to managing others: 60 hours of ICF-approved training, practice and assessment.
When Everyone Leads Facilitator Certification
Get certified to teach KLC’s popular When Everyone Leads program in your setting. Learn how to successfully deliver this highly interactive and inspiring leadership development program, suitable for individuals and teams, for college students and adult learners at all levels in nonprofit organizations, educational institutions and community settings. Gain exclusive authorization and access to course materials, including a personalized assessment that adds value to every interaction with students and clients. Practice and get feedback from KLC teachers including Joseph Shepard, Lalo Muñoz and Julia Fabris McBride, co-author of KLC’s bestselling book When Everyone Leads: How the Toughest Challenges Get Seen and Solved. Get connected to a dedicated cohort of leadership developers who share your aspiration to build cultures where everyone leads.
A Certification for Nonprofit Sector Professionals
If you work in community development, education or the nonprofit sector; if you embrace the principle that leadership is an activity available to everyone; and if you believe we need more people authorizing themselves to contribute to progress on the toughest challenges facing companies and communities – this certification program is for you. The When Everyone Leads Certification Program is for college professors, community leadership program facilitators, high school teachers and youth developers, independent nonprofit coaches and consultants, HR professionals, and anyone else working in the nonprofit sector who seeks to build leadership capacity in others. It is for experienced teachers and facilitators who want to add to their toolbox a proven program to inspire others to exercise more leadership on important challenges.
Facilitator Certification Outcomes
Through this 2-day certification program, you will:
- Debrief and explore the When Everyone Leads program with an eye toward facilitating it yourself. (NOTE: Participation in the When Everyone Leads program either in-person or virtually is a prerequisite.)
- Adapt examples and exercises to fit your context.
- Demonstrate a basic level of proficiency by passing an assessment of their teaching the following sessions:
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- Life in the Gap
- Make Multiple Interpretations
- Use the Heat
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- Demonstrate the ability to
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- Use a 90-second story to underline a teaching point.
- Use the When Everyone Leads Facilitator Guide and other course materials to support their work at the front of the room.
- Achieve participant learning outcomes for When Everyone Leads.
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- Understand the responsibilities of certified When Everyone Leads facilitators and the policies that govern the partnership between the facilitator and KLC.
- Gain access to a KLC-sponsored community of practice and consultation to support their success in delivering the When Everyone Leads
- Receive a non-credit When Everyone Leads Facilitator credential badge from KLC partner Kansas State University for completion of the program.
As a certified facilitator, you’ll help participants:
- Begin to internalize the KLC principles:
- Learn and consider application of big ideas from the book When Everyone Leads.
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- Experience The Gap and consider what it means to “put the challenge, not the person, at the center.”
- Learn the definitions of “technical problems” and “adaptive challenges.”
- Know the five most common barriers to progress.
- Move from experiencing heat or discomfort as something to be avoided to something that can fuel progress and help get groups unstuck.
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- See more opportunities to exercise leadership after the program.
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- Seize your moments: Ask powerful questions, make tough interpretations, act experimentally.
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- For those with some authority, make leadership less risky for others.
- Become eligible to enroll in Your Leadership Edge, Step 2 on the KLC Path of leadership courses.
Benefits of Certification
Certified facilitators enjoy exclusive access to branded resources, recognition from KLC partner Kansas State University and more:
- When Everyone Leads Facilitator Guide
- Slides and other facilitation tools
- Participant resources
- Pre-program When Everyone Leads participant assessments and individualized reports
- Promotional materials
- Post-program participant satisfaction and impact surveys
- Updates to materials
- Access to support through the When Everyone Leads facilitator network hub
- Facilitator credential badge from Kansas State University (non-credit)
What Participants are Saying about Our Programs
When asked how likely they were to recommend the Kansas Leadership Center and its facilitator certification program to a friend or colleague, alumni gave us an overall Net Promoter Score of 97. The When Everyone Leads program itself also earned a Net Promoter Score of 88 from alumni. Both are world-class ratings! Here’s what participants have to say in survey responses following the one-day When Everyone Leads program:
“I felt very energized when we were meeting with small groups about some of our challenges.”
“This experience has been profound. I have no doubts I will share what I learned passionately with my colleagues, family and friends.”
“I was energized as soon as I started reading the book. I felt engaged through the entire program.”
“It’s great to hear everyone else’s perspectives!”
“I appreciated the stories and examples from facilitators. The time for reflection and to work through the questions in the guide was also helpful for me to connect the learning to my personal context.”
“I feel more compelled to continue experimenting with different ways to engage our staff and reinforce the challenge in the center, rather than authority.”
Program Details
Prerequisites: Participants must have completed When Everyone Leads prior to attending certification program.
Program Dates: Offered twice in 2026 – May 13-14 | October 20-21
Program Days: Two consecutive days; 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. (CDT/GMT-5)
Location: In-person at the Kansas Leadership Center located at 325 E. Douglas Avenue, Wichita, Kansas.
Deadline: Registration closes four weeks prior to each program or once maximum capacity is reached.
Tuition fee: $4,495* + $5 non-refundable cost for When Everyone Leads Facilitator Guide provided day of program. Purchase of When Everyone Leads book is also required.
*Scholarships available. Learn more and apply.
Required Texts: When Everyone Leads, available in multiple formats including large print, audiobook and print and eBooks in both English and Spanish. Purchase from your favorite bookseller, our online store or our custom shopping page.
Pre-Work: Completion of KLC’s one-day When Everyone Leads program, one-hour orientation webinar and successful completion of content and policy knowledge assessments will be required prior to attending this program. Details will be sent 4 weeks prior to the start of your program.
Advanced Leadership Development Intensive
Do you need to build leadership capacity on your team or in your organization? Do you want new methods to help people practice leadership skills in real time? Looking for ways to make learning experiential? Learn and practice an experiential method that turns real-time interactions with a team or class into a case study for building leadership. Expand your skills with KLC’s advanced course in group dynamics and the Case-in-Point teaching method.
With KLC’s Advanced Leadership Development Intensive you develop capacity to:
- Engage people in experiential learning about leadership using Case-in-Point.
- Foster productive group dynamics within teams, organizations and coalitions.
- Identify patterns and roles within a system for improved outcomes.
- Leverage tension and navigate conflict in a group.
- Use coaching skills to encourage people to disrupt patterns and create change.
- Manage self when emotions run high.
When you add Case-in-Point to your toolkit, the people you teach, consult or manage will:
- Recognize their own behavior patterns and the roles they typically play in systems.
- Understand how they can influence group dynamics.
- Exercise more leadership.
- Make more progress and solve problems faster.
What is Case-in-Point?
Case-in-Point is an experiential method in which facilitators use a group as a case study to learn about and practice leadership in real time. It is a pillar of Adaptive Leadership, developed at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. In classrooms and boardrooms, the Case-in-Point methods helps you co-create learning experiences with your participants.
Resources for consideration
Intrigued, but need more information? Click the links below for additional resources to help you understand how Case-in-Point can generate such powerful, even life-changing experiential learning. KLC teacher Jill Hufnagel’s explainer outlines “Six Anchors for Turning Classrooms into Living Leadership Labs” and her podcast interview for 10,000 Swamp Leaders with host Rick Torseth includes a discussion on Case-in-Point. KLC Teacher Tim Steffensmeier co-authored an article in New Directions for Student Leadership for educators on emergent-based teaching pedagogies that provides a literature review and describes the history and use of Case-in-Point in various contexts around the world.
What is the Advanced Leadership Development Intensive?
Our four-day program offers a rare opportunity to learn and practice incorporating this transformative technique in your teaching, training or consulting. You’ll connect with leadership development professionals from around the world and find a strong support system of Harvard-trained master-practitioners Tim Steffensmeier and Jill Hufnagel. Our Advanced Leadership Development Intensive gives you the training and assistance you need to make full use of this singular tool for leadership education and practice.
Who Should Attend?
- Anyone who seeks to enhance the impact of experiential learning about leadership.
- Professionals in leadership, organizational and human resource development.
- Executives and managers seeking new tools to analyze and address leadership issues, including change management.
- Internal and independent consultants.
- Professionals familiar with the Adaptive Leadership framework or the KLC Leadership framework.
Through this immersive experience, you will:
- Prepare to use Case-in-Point virtually and in-person.
- Practice using Case-in-Point in your teaching, training or consulting.
- Get real time feedback from peers and KLC’s master practitioners.
- Experiment with what works, and what doesn’t, in a supportive group environment.
- Connect with other accomplished leadership development professionals.
This program will help you:
- Evolve your leadership skills with advanced group dynamics; identify patterns and roles within a system for improved outcomes
- Foster healthier group dynamics within organizations
- Practice self-discipline when emotions run high
- Embrace personal discomfort and take calculated risks at the front of the room
- Leverage tension and manage conflict in a group for productive discoveries
Using Case-in-Point helps participants:
- Recognize their own behaviors, the roles they play within a system, and why
- Understand how they can influence group dynamics to make progress
Through the 4-day intensive, you will:
- Practice using Case-in-Point in your teaching, training or consulting
- Get real time feedback from peers and KLC’s master practitioners
- Receive personalized mentoring
- Experiment with what works, and what doesn’t, in a supportive group environment
- Connect with other accomplished leadership development professionals
Endorsements
Marty Linsky, co-founder of Cambridge Leadership Associates and co-author with Heifetz of the best-selling book, Leadership on the Line, highly recommends this program. “KLC is the perfect place to perfect your Case-in-Point delivery skills. Using the class as a case is a challenging and powerful method of enhancing people’s leadership capacity. And for me at least, doing it well is a life-long learning journey.”
Read what others are saying about this intensive (formerly called Case-in-Point Intensive).
Audrey Lee
President, Aurelia Leadership
Kurt O’Brien
Kurt O’Brien Consulting, LLC
Heloisa Haist
ESOL Teacher, USD 259
Liz Hamor
Chief Empowerment Officer, Center of Daring
Shane Iwashige
Owner, The Rock Group
Heidi Dala
Executive Director, Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation
Anita Wang
Executive Coach
Stuart Reid
Owner, Stuart Reid Consulting, Ltd., United Kingdom
Pam Coleman
Coleman Consulting
Shannon Wallis
Managing director, Cascade Leadership
Program Details
Program Dates: March 30 – April 2, 2026
Program Days: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. (CDT/GMT-5)
Location: All sessions with be held at the Kansas Leadership Center, 325 E. Douglas Ave, Wichita, Kansas, 67202.
Deadline to register: Registration closes two weeks prior to each program or once maximum capacity is reached.
Tuition fee: $2,995 + $5 non-refundable cost for Advanced Leadership Development Intensive Workbook provided day of program. Purchase of KLC’s Teaching Leadership book is also required.
Required Text: KLC’s Teaching Leadership book is required for purchase in the KLC Store.
Pre-Work: Familiarity with the Case-in-Point methodology and KLC’s Leadership Framework will be required prior to attending this program. Reflection and pre-reading details will be sent 3 weeks prior to the start of your program.
Have questions or want more information? Contact KLC Programs at programs@kansasleadershipcenter.org or 316.712.4950.
Leadership Coach Intensive – All 60 hours offered virtually
The Leadership Coach Intensive pairs the Kansas Leadership Center’s proven framework with the International Coaching Federation’s Core Competencies in a one-of-a-kind program designed to develop your coaching mindset. Multiply your impact by helping others unlock their own potential and make greater progress for the organization.
Imagine making an even greater impact in the lives of others; an impact that leads to transformation.
With excellent coaching skills, you’ll develop the ability to ask just the right question at the right time to help unlock potential in others. You’ll enable your participants, clients, or employees to find greater purpose, enhance performance, and make more progress toward their goals.
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients (or employees) in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
Our own Leadership Coach Intensive supports all ICF updated credentials and standards of the Level 1 accreditation. The program is designed to help build professional coaching skills through a 60-hour coach training that will qualify for ICF’s Associate Certified Coach credential (ACC), a Level 1 Accreditation program.
Learn and understand the mastery of coaching techniques, ethics, and core coaching competencies from experienced leadership coaches Tim Link, MCC, Teresa Schwab, MCC, Joyce McEwen Crane, PCC and Seth Bate, PCC. All courses are offered in English.
Through the 60-hour intensive, you will:
- Learn and practice all 8 International Coaching Federation (ICF) Core Coaching Competencies.
- Experience coaching as an act of leadership based on the KLC principles and competencies.
- Experience the possibilities for transformation and progress in a leadership coaching partnership.
- Practice skills and get feedback from certified coaches.
- Prepare to coach professionally or put skills to use in your context.
Requirements for KLC’s Leadership Coach Intensive:
- 25-hour week-long course
- Written knowledge assessment
- 30 hours of virtual training including Coaching to Make Progress on Adaptive Challenges, Practice Skills and Mentor Coaching
- Practice with feedback from ICF certified mentor coaches
What Alumni Are Saying
Anne Pratt
Harvard Fellow, multi-awarded businesswoman
Adrion Roberson
Founder and CEO, DESTINY! Consulting
Rommy Vargas
Owner, Spanish Ad Hoc Translations
Scott Metzler
Principal, Human Centered Leadership Group
Brandi Turner
DEI Officer, Kansas Department for Children & Families
Dale Caveny
Trustee, Blue Ridge Conservancy
Kristena Shiflett
Engineering manager, NetApp
Joe Charleston
Director of Engineering, Qual-Tron
Michelle Vann
CEO, Vanntastic Solutions
Cy Rogers
Community Program Specialist, WSU Community Engagement Institute
Cindy Claycomb
Professor Emerita, Wichita State University
Carl Bowden
Founder and coach, Exemplify Leadership
Kendra Moody
Head of Community, The Thread
Emily Wilder
Associate director, University of Kansas Transportation Center
Jessica Schrock-Ringenberg
Director, Center for Anabaptist Leadership and Learning
Andrea Dalton
Consultant and trainer, Center for Trauma Informed Innovation, Truman Medical Centers
Heidi Unruh
Consultant, Congregations & Community Outreach Project
Lynn Wood
Vice President, Wood Communications
Angela Gieras
Executive Director, Kansas City Repertory Theatre
Lisa Reddick
Talent Strategy Director, POET
Program Details
Week-long course: June 8-12, 2026, from 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Central Time
Coaching to Make Progress on Adaptive Challenges course: Six 90-minute online classes – Tuesdays, June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2026; 8:30-10 a.m. CST
Foundations for Professional Coaching Practice Course: Three 3.5 hour online classes – Thursday, July 16, August 13, September 10, 2026; 8:30 a.m.-noon CST
Group Mentor Coaching: Five 90-minute online classes – multiple cohorts. Dates available upon registration.
Location: All hours delivered virtually via Zoom Conference Software
Deadline to register: May 25, 2026
Tuition fee: $4,495* + $5 non-refundable cost for Leadership Coach Intensive Workbook provided one week before program as well as up to $20 for coach session transcription service. Purchase of KLC’s Teaching Leadership and Your Leadership Edge books is also required.
*Scholarships available. Learn more and apply.
Required Text: KLC’s Teaching Leadership book is required for purchase in the KLC Store as well as Your Leadership Edge which you may purchase from your favorite retailer or from our bookstore. You will need both books in the program.
Pre-Work: Reflection and prompts to prepare for coaching, policy acknowledgment, mentor sign-up and pre-reading will be required prior to attending this program. Details will be sent 3 weeks prior to the start of your program.
Have questions or want more information? Contact KLC Programs at programs@kansasleadershipcenter.org or 316.712.4950.
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