The Right Use of Power provides practical tools and real-time insights that help foster more collaborative, impactful, and healthy workplace cultures.
Right Use of Power for Leaders
Sunalta Community Hall
Calgary, Canada
Description
Nonprofit leaders carry immense responsibility.
Whether leading organizations, managing teams, overseeing programs, stewarding donor relationships, engaging communities, or navigating complex stakeholder dynamics, leaders in the social impact sector are constantly balancing competing priorities and difficult decisions.
They are expected to care deeply about people while delivering results. To navigate scarce resources while meeting growing needs. To support staff through burnout, uncertainty, and change while remaining accountable to boards, funders, and the communities they serve.
In these environments, the use of power matters deeply.
Every decision, conversation, policy, and leadership action has the potential to build trust, strengthen relationships, and create positive impact - or unintentionally cause harm.
The Right Use of Power™ is a dynamic, inspiring, and relational approach to the ethical use of power to promote well-being, the common good, and right relationship. It offers a practical language and framework for understanding and navigating power with strength AND heart.
Right Use of Power™ programs focus on increasing awareness, skillfulness, and engagement in the use of power. Leaders learn to recognize the influence they hold, understand the impacts of their decisions and actions, and develop practices that foster accountability, trust, and empowerment.
It is ethics from the inside out.
This in-person training in Calgary is brought to you in collaboration with the Nonprofit Chamber, the Right Use of Power Institute, All Thrive, Modern People Solutions and the team at The Ally Co.
Join us for a full-day, engaging, and hands-on learning experience to deepen your understanding of power and strengthen your capacity to lead with integrity, courage, and compassion.
Empowering, relevant, and dynamic, this program is presented through engaging presentations, facilitated discussions, experiential practices, and opportunities to connect with fellow nonprofit leaders facing similar challenges.
Early Bird tickets available before July 30th.
Bringing your leadership team? Group registrations are available (select the table of eight option, or reach out to discuss bulk ticket options).
Check out both the Right Use of Power for Professionals workshop (September 15th) and Right Use of Power for Human Resources (September 16th), in-person in Calgary, AB.
Content at each workshop is similar, with activities and discussions oriented towards the unique needs of the different audiences.
Workshop objectives & outcomes
Understand the five types of power and how they show up in leadership, decision-making, organizational culture, and relationships with staff, boards, funders, and community partners.
Deepen your awareness of your own power and influence, gaining insight into how your actions, communication, and leadership presence impact others.
Develop a stronger understanding of power differentials, helping you navigate complexity, accountability, conflict, and change with greater skill and confidence.
Learn practical approaches for using power ethically and effectively, fostering trust, psychological safety, empowerment, and healthy boundaries within your team and organization.
Leave with actionable tools, new perspectives, and a shared language for power, enabling you to lead with greater integrity, courage, and compassion.
Lineup
Dr. Amanda Aguilera
Let’s talk about power! I’m Dr. Amanda Aguilera, and I support individuals and organizations in navigating the dynamics of power that shape our lives, our work, and our relationships. As the Executive Director of the Right Use of Power Institute, I advocate for a world where we participate in power in ways that bring us closer to right relationship. I believe we often lose connection to ourselves and others when striving for perfection—when we are trying to fit into systems instead of cultivating belonging within ourselves. Whether I’m speaking on a stage, working 1:1 as a power-conscious guide, leading the Right Use of Power Institute, or sharing the framework in my new book, Shaping Power for Good: Wayfinding to Right Relationship, my mission is to move us toward more authentic connection.
Jeff Couillard
I help organizations build leaderful teams - teams where power is used wisely, trust is practiced daily, and people are equipped to navigate the real tensions of modern work. My work sits at the intersection of leadership development, team facilitation, and organizational culture. I’ve had the privilege of supporting leaders at TC Energy, the City of Calgary and the Calgary Fire Department, Electronic Arts, Bayer, Hull Services, and other mission-driven organizations across sectors. I design and deliver learning experiences that are practical, participatory, and immediately operational - whether through executive workshops, keynote speaking, immersive team sessions, or long-term leadership development programs. My approach is grounded in the Right Use of Power, deep coaching practice, and over a decade of work in addiction and mental health, where clarity, compassion, and accountability are non-negotiable.
Leah Fink
My passion is supporting employees' mental health in the workplace. With All Thrive, I develop leadership and culture transformations that focus on advancing communication skills, deepening team connection and engagement, and shifting inefficient systems. Mental health isn't just an individual issue. Workplace culture and leadership have a huge impact, and I love supporting leaders to ensure that the impact they are having is a positive one!
Testimonials
"This training is packed full of wisdom and illuminates and articulates aspects of power that I have never been offered in any of the leadership courses and workshops I’ve taken.
An amazing training! I feel more confident personally and professionally. RUP helps me to work skillfully with identities and social conditioning in a compassionate manner.
FAQs
- Who is this training for?
This workshop is designed for leaders working in nonprofit, community-serving, and social impact organizations.
Participants often include:
Executive Directors and CEOs
Senior leaders and directors
Managers and supervisors
Program leaders
Team leads
Board members and board chairs
Emerging leaders
Consultants and advisors who support nonprofit organizations
If your role involves leading people, making decisions, influencing organizational culture, allocating resources, or navigating complex stakeholder relationships, this workshop is for you.
- What is the Right Use of Power?
The Right Use of Power™ is a practical framework for understanding and using power ethically, responsibly, and effectively.
For leaders, power shows up every day - in decision-making, performance management, communication, resource allocation, strategy, organizational culture, and relationships with staff, volunteers, boards, funders, and community members.
This workshop provides a language and framework for understanding these dynamics and using power in ways that build trust, accountability, and healthy relationships.
- Is this workshop only for Executive Directors or Senior Leaders?
No. While Executive Directors and senior leaders often find the training highly valuable, the workshop is relevant for anyone with leadership responsibilities, including managers, supervisors, team leads, project leads, board members, and emerging leaders.
Leadership creates influence and responsibility at every level of an organization.
- Do I need previous experience with the Right Use of Power?
No prior knowledge is required.
This workshop serves as an introduction to the Right Use of Power framework and is designed for both new and experienced leaders seeking to strengthen their leadership practice.
- How is this relevant for my day-to-day leadership challenges?
Power dynamics influence many of the situations you navigate every day, including:
Giving feedback and managing performance
Leading organizational change
Resolving conflict
Setting boundaries and expectations
Managing up, down, and across the organization
Working with boards and governance structures
Balancing accountability with empathy
Building a healthy organizational culture
Participants leave with insights they can apply immediately in their leadership roles.
- How is this training different from other leadership workshops?
Many leadership programs focus on strategy, communication, management skills, or organizational performance.
Right Use of Power focuses on the often-overlooked dynamics of influence, authority, responsibility, and relationship. It helps leaders understand not only what decisions they make, but how their use of power affects trust, engagement, accountability, and organizational culture.
It is leadership development through the lens of ethics, self-awareness, and right relationship.
- What if I have additional questions?
We'd be happy to help. Contact us, and we'll gladly answer any questions about the workshop, registration process, or whether the training is the right fit for you or your leadership team.
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