Strengthening Grounded & Culturally Aligned Leadership
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This session invites BIPOC nonprofit leaders into a space for reflection, connection, and shared learning. Through guided dialogue and experiential practices, participants will explore how to strengthen leadership that is grounded in cultural values, community relationships, and collective responsibility.
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Leadership in our communities is more than strategy and deliverables. It is relational, cultural, and embodied.
This session invites BIPOC nonprofit leaders (executive directors, staff, and board members) into a space designed for connection, reflection, and restoration. Together, we will explore how culturally grounded leadership shows up in our daily practice and how we align our values with the decisions we make. We will also reflect on the ecosystems we are part of: our organizations, our communities, our histories, and our own bodies.
We will also take time to pause, breathe, and reconnect with what sustains us in this season of leadership.
Participants can expect a supportive and welcoming container to connect honestly with peers, process the realities of leadership, and share lived experiences in ways that feel constructive and generative. This is a space for meaningful dialogue, reflection, and collective strengthening where we can name challenges, gain clarity, and build deeper collaboration.
Through guided dialogue, ecosystem mapping, and accessible somatic practices, we will:
- Ground our leadership in cultural values, community knowledge, and lived experience
- Strengthen collaboration rooted in trust and shared responsibility
- Explore resilience practices that move beyond burnout culture
- Practice community-centered decision-making that reflects our values
Participants will leave having connected with peers who understand the context of their work, reflected on leadership through a cultural lens, and identified ways to stay aligned in their day-to-day decisions within a space that recognizes the realities they carry as leaders.
This session is presented through the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Learning Hub and is part of the BIPOC Nonprofit Leader Series program. This event is free; registration is required.
About the Learning Hub
The Santa Fe Community Foundation proudly offers our Learning Hub as an educational space for nonprofit board, executive directors, staff members, and donors. Each year, the Hub offers dozens of events, workshops, and learning circles that promote leadership, skill building, and peer-supported growth.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Vickie Oldman
Vickie Oldman
Vickie K. Oldman is a founding partner of Seven Sisters Community Development Group, LLC; Principal of Kitseallyboy Consulting, LLC; and founder and host of the Real Native Roots: Untold Stories podcast. She also serves as Board Chair of First Peoples Fund. With more than 30 years of experience, Vickie advances culturally grounded, relational approaches to organizational development, specializing in strategic planning, governance and board development, leadership training, and executive coaching to strengthen Native, rural, and movement-based organizations. A nationally recognized facilitator and trusted capacity coach, she partners with foundations and community leaders across environmental justice, gender and reproductive equity, Indigenous sovereignty, housing, and economic development. Vickie holds an MSW from New Mexico Highlands University and a BSW from Arizona State University, and she is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, proudly carrying her clan, Black Streak of the Forest.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Meet the people leading the conversation
Vickie Oldman
Vickie Oldman
Vickie K. Oldman is a founding partner of Seven Sisters Community Development Group, LLC; Principal of Kitseallyboy Consulting, LLC; and founder and host of the Real Native Roots: Untold Stories podcast. She also serves as Board Chair of First Peoples Fund. With more than 30 years of experience, Vickie advances culturally grounded, relational approaches to organizational development, specializing in strategic planning, governance and board development, leadership training, and executive coaching to strengthen Native, rural, and movement-based organizations. A nationally recognized facilitator and trusted capacity coach, she partners with foundations and community leaders across environmental justice, gender and reproductive equity, Indigenous sovereignty, housing, and economic development. Vickie holds an MSW from New Mexico Highlands University and a BSW from Arizona State University, and she is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, proudly carrying her clan, Black Streak of the Forest.
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