Many leaders within health systems, social service agencies, and community-based organizations are quietly experiencing a form of moral injury due to rising compliance mandates, shifting policies that erode the mission they signed up for, and constraints that prevent them from acting on what they know is right. This working session names that tension directly and moves leaders from moral injury to agency — giving them a framework and language they can immediately bring to their board, funders, or leadership team.

Session level: Intermediate

Who should attend: Health system executives, senior clinical leaders, and CBO leaders who feel the gap between their mission and their organization’s willingness to act on it, and who want a framework to help close that gap.

Capacity: Registration required beforehand; capacity is limited.

Cost:

Session objectives

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Name and validate the moral injury leaders are experiencing so that participants recognize the gap between their mission and their organization’s willingness to act as a legitimate, shared leadership challenge rather than an individual burden.
2. Equip leaders in their organization with the 5-Rs framework (Risk-sharing, resource-sharing, response coordination, rights-protection & resistance, reimagining policy & power) to assess and respond to political and policy threats facing their organization.
3. Build capacity across the 7 Core Competencies for Collaborative Power to give leaders practical language and tools they can bring back to their board, funders, or leadership team immediately.