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NAPD Leadership Institute, Columbia, Missouri

April 11-14

This bring-your-own-challenge Leadership Institute features the country's top public defender faculty, intensive small group work, practical training skills, and the benefit of an enduring network of support. It has been developed for leaders, managers and supervisors. This training is open to all job types working in public defense (not just attorneys).

6 Week Online Courses including a mix of recorded videos and exercises with weekly Zoom small group workshops

For leaders and supervisors at all levels

Take your leadership to the NEXT LEVEL. Leadership is vital, yet sometimes we struggle to lead with the core principles of effective leadership. It is even more difficult to lead during times of adversity and crisis while helping others to maintain their stability.

Are you interested in:



• Discovering your leadership style and understanding what type of influencer you can be for your team(s)
• Learning the vital tenets of becoming a transformational leader during times of adversity.
• Developing skills to increase your leadership IQ?
• Developing skills and understanding in emotional intelligence (EI) and how EI influences team leadership and overall team performance?
• Learning strategies to help produce greater buy-in from those you lead to shift culture or achieve goals?

Program Highlights

Next Level Leadership takes place over several weeks and include engaging group learning sessions, self-reflection exercises, project-based learning applications, and one-on-one coaching, on a state the art online learning platform. The course is in a virtual classroom setting. No matter where you fall on the leadership spectrum of experience, there is always room for growth. Our course faculty are experts in the area of transformational leadership. This course will help leaders define what kind of leaders they aspire to be, and ways in which to achieve their leadership goals, and assist will assist participants by offering innovative ways to approach challenges and obstacles. In this leadership course, you will develop your leadership goals and we will help you develop plans to achieve them as well.

For Defenders Chief, Deputies and Leadership Team members

Often defender leaders feel as if they are “ballroom dancing in the middle of a minefield” as they face the complexities of the pandemic, demonstrations, riots, reduced resources, safety concerns, attacks on independence, and excessive workloads.

An online course for chief defenders, deputy chiefs, office directors, supervisors, and others in leadership positions. The course is conducted completely online.

When responding to a crisis, we have a choice. We can be overwhelmed, implement simple solutions, act out of anger. Or we can open the door and delight in the unknown. This is a course about delighting in the unknown and creating a field of possibilities. By the end of this course, the participant's journey will produce a plan for addressing a current adversity, complexity, and/or crisis in their office. The plan will build on their strengths and will take advantage of additional options on how they see and approach adversities, complexities, and crises.

There are a total of six sections, over six weeks. Each session section has videos to watch at your convenience and other materials to review at your convenience. Each session has an assignment that is based on your organization’s situation and you as a leader for you to complete. The videos and assignment will be discussed in a weekly small Zoom group with a structured discussion for an hour and a half. Through the course, you will learn common sense models for what leaders can choose to do in dealing with the unpredictable adversity, complexity, and crisis. You will develop a plan to address your organization’s complexity in a way that opens the door to opportunities. In taking this online course, you agree to keep conversations in the small group confidential.



Having a hard time committing to a particular date for online or in person training? Order videos from NAPD's Virtual Leadership Institute.

Over 10 hours of great training to watch when you need it for only $125.

See the schedule here.

Online Train the Trainer - 2 Week Intensive

Create Your Own Online Course

Jan 23 - Feb 3, 2023



NAPD's Public Defender Bring Your Own “Course” Train the Trainer program for the development of distance learning courses for your organizations.  This course will utilize both synchronous and asynchronous instruction methods. Participants will be expected to read materials and watch short videos on your own in preparation for each class meeting. The class will meet in regular online Zoom video conferences and will also use small group breakout sessions during class where you will work on the course that you are developing. We model best practices for you to incorporate into the course you create.