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, 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.
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.
EVENT INFO:
Thursday, September 17, 2026
9am – 4pm MDT
Location To Be Announced
Calgary, Canada
GO TO THE HOST’S WEBSITE TO GET TICKETS HERE
Early Bird tickets available before June 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.
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!
