[VIRTUAL] Leadership Development Academy
Welcome to the Leadership Development Academy!
In partnership with the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits (OKCNP) and the Oklahoma Partnership for School Readiness (OPSR), this six-session program was developed by leadership coach Marc Pitman. It is designed to help child care providers across Oklahoma navigate an increasingly complex operating environment marked by funding instability, regulatory demands, and workforce challenges. The primary goal of the Leadership Development Academy is to strengthen providers' leadership capacity and long-term sustainability.
There are six (6), 2-hour session offerings to be held between September and November 2026. We encourage you to attend each session, as the content will build upon previous offerings, though attendance is not required. For each of the "live" Zoom sessions you attend, you will receive a Certificate of Completion from OPSR. To earn your certificate, you must engage in the entire 2-hour "live" offering. These sessions will be recorded for future viewing, however viewing the recordings will not qualify you for the Certificate of Completion.
By the end of the program, you will be better equipped to:
- Apply your leadership style with greater intention — and use that self-awareness to recognize and develop the leadership potential in your staff and volunteers.
- Evaluate competing options and make sound decisions even when circumstances shift and there is no clear path forward.
- Craft communication and storytelling strategies that strengthen staff engagement and hold your team culture together even when under pressure.
- Construct staff, parent, and community engagement approaches that build shared ownership and broader external support.
- Design staffing and transition strategies that sustain team momentum, reduce burnout, and grow leaders from within.
- Create systems and practices that translate your vision into sustainable, lasting organizational change.
2-hour sessions will be offered from 9:30am to 11:30am CT on the following dates:
- Session 1: Finding Your Leadership Style, Tuesday, September 8, 2026
- Session 2: Leading Through Change, Thursday, September 24, 2026
- Session 3: Using Story to Engage Your Team, Thursday, October 8, 2026
- Session 4: Connecting With Your Community, Thursday, October 22, 2026
- Session 5: Smooth Transitions, Thursday, October 29, 2026
- Session 6: Casting a Vision for the Future, Tuesday, November 17, 2026
***CECPD/OPDR Credit***
CEO, Concord Leadership Group
Marc is the founder of Concord Leadership Group and has served as its CEO for 20 years. In that time, he has presented trainings and keynotes to over 27,000 participants in North America, Europe, Mexico, and New Zealand; coached more than 130 CEOs, C-suite executives, directors, and owners — through the dot-com bust, the aftermath of 9/11, the 2008 recession, and the COVID-19 pandemic; and in the last few years has certified an additional 45 Quadrant 3 Leadership Coaches, who have gone on to coach and train more than 45,290 leaders in corporations, government, associations, and nonprofits. Marc holds his masters in organizational leadership from Regent University.
He is a Certified Franklin Covey Coach, a Certified Speaking Professional of the National Speakers Association, and past-president of the South Carolina chapter of the International Coaching Federation. He has appeared in or been recognized by media outlets and publications including NBC, Fox News, Al Jazeera, Success magazine, Real Simple, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Marc is the author of Ask Without Fear!®, which has been translated into Dutch, Polish, Spanish, and Mandarin. His latest book is The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be. Marc speaks nationally and internationally on leadership, influence, storytelling, and fundraising and is the voice behind FRC, one of the longest-running blogs in the nonprofit sector (est. 2003). He is executive director of The Nonprofit Academy; an advisory board member of innovative fundraising platform Pennybridge in Orebro, Sweden; and a former advisory panel member of the Rogare Think Tank at Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom.
He is married to his best friend and is the father of three amazing kids, who, if he’s belting ’80s tunes, will deny they know him.
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