A Free Strategic Leadership Course for the Sustainable Building Community

Join Kathleen O’Brien and amplify your leadership effectiveness today

In a series of 20 presentations and interviews recorded in 2014, Kathleen O’Brien shares the strategic leadership model that is at the core of EMERGE programs, along with case studies, and practical guidance to assist you on your personal leadership journey.

The EMERGE Leadership Project is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to energizing the emergent leadership capabilities of green building professionals and sustainability advocates through training, mentoring, community engagement, and other support, with the ultimate goal of fostering a thriving and life-sustaining environment.

Kathleen O’Brien brings 30-plus years as an award-winning educator, writer, strategic planner, and project consultant in the sustainable building field to her work as Founder of the EMERGE Leadership Project. Through this project, O’Brien has been providing leadership development support including training, mentoring, and tools to green building professionals and advocates with the ultimate goal of making this world a better place for all living species, now and into the future.

Professionals who have participated in EMERGE programs have successfully launched policy initiatives, commercial enterprises, professional career transitions, community projects and more. The sustainability coordinator of one leading design firm has called EMERGE training “life-altering.”

Emerge: A Strategic Leadership Model for the Sustainable Building Community (Spring 2016) describes the EMERGE Leadership Model and provides practical guidance to help you apply it. With purchase of the book you have access to a personal leadership development template, bonus exercises, helpful links and suggested reading to enhance your leadership journey.

Enroll in EMERGE: Strategic Leadership for the Sustainable Building Community

Learning Objectives

• Understand the concept of emergent leadership and how it is particularly suited to creating sustainable solutions and transformation.
• Learn the conditions for positive change to occur, and what you can do to foster those conditions.
• Understand the practice of emergent collaboration and learn how you can plan for it.
• Learn the importance of creating a personal plan to develop a strategic approach to leadership.

It’s a BOOK too! Emerge: A Strategic Leadership Model for the Sustainable Building Community (Spring 2016) describes the EMERGE Leadership Model and provides practical guidance to help you apply it. With purchase of the book you have access to a personal leadership development template, bonus exercises, helpful links and suggested reading to enhance your leadership journey. Watch the videos and read the book for an enriched learning experience! 

Meet Kathleen O’Brien – Executive Director, EMERGE

Kathleen O’Brien, LEED AP, CSBA, is a long time leader in the sustainable building field, recognized in 2008 as a lifetime Cascadia Fellow for her work developing collaborative green building programs, conducting research to support enabling green building policy, coordinating policy demonstration projects, and empowering professionals through tailored continuing education curriculum, such as the Sustainable Building Advisor Program. Thousands of professionals, organizations, and building projects nationally and internationally reflect the benefit of her leadership work over her 30+plus year career, in particular during her tenure at O’Brien & Company, one of the first green building consultancies in the U.S. Kathleen has an MA Environment & Community at Antioch University-Seattle where she was recognized as Distinguished Alumna in 2009, and now sits as a Board Trustee. She has founded and directs The EMERGE Leadership Project, a 501c3 non-profit, which is dedicated to “energizing the emergent leadership capabilities of green building professionals and advocates through training, mentoring and other support, with the ultimate goal of fostering a thriving and life-sustaining environment.”