Thank you for agreeing to host an event to promote When Everyone Leads and to inspire others to build cultures where everyone can see and seize their moments to lead.

By promoting KLC’s new book you are helping build capacity to address the toughest challenges facing 21st century organizations and communities. When everyone understands that leadership is an activity, we can work tougher better to achieve big aspirations.

Why this book matters

When Everyone Leads: How the Toughest Challenges Get Seen and Solved offers a countercultural approach to leadership and a way forward that is both optimistic and pragmatic.

Leadership is not about authority and position. Leadership is actually an activity—small actions taken in moments of opportunity.

That mean everyone can lead, no matter where you sit in your organization or community. And when more people feel empowered to see, and seize our moments to lead, we make more progress on our most important challenges. When Everyone Leads is a new book from Bard Press and the Kansas Leadership Center. It’s a resource to help you tap into your power and unleash capacity among your peers and teams.

Why you should host or attend a When Everyone Leads event

You have challenges you care about. Maybe you are stuck and need inspiration. You’ll find it in When Everyone Leads. Or maybe you want to energize others to take action on an important challenge. When Everyone Leads helps you inspire others to see and seize their moments to lead.

When Everyone Leads, gives you a new mindset about leadership, a way to understand why you are stuck, what you could do differently, and some tools and tactics to move forward. With a new attitude about leadership, you’ll seize opportunities and make more progress on your toughest challenges.

Check out this video. Then, join in the conversation. Discover new ways to move forward on what matters most.

Agenda

This agenda is suitable for a 60-minute virtual event or a 90 minute in person event.

Gathering and mingling, in person events only (15 minutes)
Welcome and introductions (15 minutes)

• Host welcomes people and speaks about
• Why you love When Everyone Leads and want to encourage others to read it.
• How the KLC ideas/ideas from the book have helped you make more progress on what you care about.
• Preview the agenda and promise to end on time.
• Have participants introduce themselves (in the full group or, if the group is more than 15, in small groups) and respond to the prompt: What intrigues you about the title of this book, When Everyone Leads: How the Toughest Challenges Get Seen and Solved?

Book talk and/or reading (20-30 minutes)

• A speaker (one of the authors, a KLC staff member, the host, or another KLC champion) highlights ideas from the book.
• Opportunity to use 2 or 3 slides from this toolkit.
• Opportunity to share 1 video from this toolkit.
• Opportunity to engage the audience with cartoons and discussion questions from our 90-minute book discussion guide.

Q&A (15 minutes)

• Audience opportunity to ask questions about When Everyone Leads, KLC, etc.
• Speaker answers what they can, engages other audience members in the more adaptive questions, and tags questions they can’t answer for KLC to follow-up on.

Mingling if the event is in person (30 minutes)

RESOURCES

1. Illustrations to go with each section of the book.
2. Pre-order single copies here
3. Pre-order discounted packages of 20 books here

Video Resources

Part 2 Video

Part 5 Video