Collective Leadership stories
Creating Inter-Generational Partnerships for Student Success in South Texas
Collective Leadership Principle Learned: How to engage the community in owning the work and creating inter-generational partnerships for student success.
Improving Native American Education in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Collective Leadership Principle Learned: How to listen and develop partnerships within and across racial groups.
Working across racial barriers in Buffalo New York
Collective Leadership Principle Learned: How to listen deeply to work across racial barriers and appropriately engage people of color in establishing agendas to address racial equity across issues.
Using Gracious Space to hold difficult conversations between Native Americans and Whites at Salish Kootenai College, Montana
Collective Leadership Principle Learned: How to create Gracious Space where Native Americans and Whites can have difficult conversations and develop mutually respectful relationships.
Partnering Across Small Towns in Northwest Wisconsin
Collective Leadership Principle Learned: How to partner across small towns and generations in rural communities where isolation and independence are prominent.
Overcoming Historical Divides, Eastern Cibola County, New Mexico
Collective Leadership Principle Learned: How to cultivate courage and patience to overcome historical divides and work together across Pueblo and Hispanic jurisdictions and cultures.
Roca, Inc. - Moving from Adversarial role to Collaboration in Chelsea, Massachusetts
Collective Leadership Principle Learned: How to move from an adversarial role with public systems (social services, police, courts, enforcement agencies, schools) to collaborating with them to achieve common goals.
Unleashing Generosity, Tenacity, and Resilience at Big Creek People in Action, Caretta, WV
Collective Leadership Principle Learned: How, in the midst of great community pain, to draw on collective gifts of deep hospitality and generosity, to support relationships with external groups that in turn support the community.
Helping African American Youth Access College, Boys & Girls Club of Benton Harbor, Michigan
Collective Leadership Principle Learned: How African American men can support each other in stepping up to help youth succeed by holding high expectations and developing special personal relationships with youth.
Cultivating Trust Within a Multi-Service Community-Based Organization, Mi Casa Resource Center, Denver, Colorado
Collective Leadership Principle Learned: How to use youth and adult partnerships to cultivate trust and align the values within a multi-service, community-based organization with the community they serve.
Cultivating the Next Generation of Native American Leaders, Lummi CEDAR Project, Washington
Collective Leadership Principle Learned: How to let go and allow leadership succession to take place in a culturally appropriate way in a Native American community-based organization.
The Collective Leadership Storybook: Weaving Strong Communities (2010). This book describes the patterns of working together that encourage collective leadership. Read first hand accounts of communities where people have made these patterns a way of life to advance the common good. 
The Collective Leadership Framework Workbook, (2008), describes the Collective Leadership Framework and how it has been used by communities to create change. 