LEAD Local

The LEAD Local workshop series extends our commitment to leadership development beyond our 10-month Immersion Programs, offering continued learning opportunities for leaders in San Mateo County.

Through a flexible, mix-and-match format, participants select from a catalog of standalone workshops that align with their interests, availability, and leadership goals.

LEAD Local includes two distinct, but complementary, series:

LEAD Local: Elevate

LEAD Local: Engage

Niambi Clay, Executive Director, Equity, Social Justice, and Inclusion at the San Mateo County Office of Education, Kate Hiester, Peninsula Regional Director of Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY), and Amanda Anthony, Program Director at the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center ride the bus with their classmates on Intelligent Urbanism Learning Day field trip.

Photo of the thirty-six members of the Leadership CORPS Class of 2023 outside the City of San Mateo Main Library.

Posed, outdoor photo of the members of the Emerging Leaders Class of 2023 Community Acceleration Project Team that worked with Puente: From left to right, Federico Pacheco, Senior Public Affairs Manager at Gilead Sciences, Alex Golding, Health Equity Coordinator and Clinical Program Analyst at StarVista San Mateo Pride Center, Armando Castillo, Program Manager, San Francisco 49ers Academy, Alexa Altamirano, Oncology Registered Nurse, Stanford Health Care, Garrett Kuramoto, Community Library Manage at the San Mateo County Libraries, and Andrew Knaack, County of San Mateo Equity and Belonging Associate.

Seven members of the CORPS Class of 2023 form a circle in the courtyard of the City of San Mateo Library to work on an exercise together.

Elevate

Elevate Your leadership Skills

Strengthen your leadership toolkit with workshops designed for San Mateo County professionals and community members who want to elevate their leadership skills. Taken on their own or combined as a personal learning journey, these high-impact, half-day workshops offer practical skills to help you lead through change, think strategically, show up with presence, and communicate with impact.

Several of these in-person workshop also include follow-up virtual "application" sessions to deepen your learning and share with peers. Check the registration page for more information.

ELEVATE Workshops

2025-2026

Leading Through Change

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

registration closed

Strategic Thinking for Complex Times

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Leadership Presence: The Human Advantage in an AI World

Thursday, April 23, 2026

An Interactive Workshop with Stanford’s Tina Seelig

Date coming soon!

Registration
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Times and Locations

LEAD Local: Elevate 2025-2026 workshops will be held at:

Chan Zuckerberg Community Space, Redwood City

8:30 am - 12 noon

Engage

Engage in complex civic issues

This civic knowledge series offers engaging learning experiences that bring San Mateo County’s most pressing issues into focus, because informed leaders build stronger communities.

Through a flexible, mix-and-match format of interactive sessions led by local experts and thought leaders, you will explore critical civic systems in SMC and dive deeply into key issues shaping the County.

These sessions connect policy, people, and leadership to action.

ENGAGE Workshops

2025-2026

Communicate with Impact with Stanford Professor Matt Abrahams

Chan Zuckerberg Community Center

October 1, 2025, 8:30 am - 3:00 pm

registration closed

Shifting Shorelines: Adapting to Climate Change on the Coast

Pacifica Civic Center

October 29, 2025, 8:30 am - 2:30 pm

Registration closed

Arts & Culture: Supporting What Moves Us

Filoli Historic House & World-Class Garden

February 19, 2026

Times and Locations

LEAD Local: Engage 2025-2026 workshops will be held at various locations around San Mateo County.

Workshop hours are as specified above.

Please check the registration page for the most current information.

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