Our Offerings
We offer developmentally designed, after school programs, summer camps, and individualized programs for schools or community locations for girls in grades 3rd-5th and 6th-8th.
Our girls can continue with the work by becoming a youth or teen mentor at our summer camps or a teens mentors in our after school programs. We offer high school and college internships, and train individuals drawn to this work as facilitators for our programs. We use co-facilitation as a training model for those interested in becoming a facilitator by pairing founding facilitators with those new to this work. Many of our facilitators are educators.
Based on Research
Girls Leadership Collaborative draws from the research from many thought leaders and expert practitioners, and researchers in the fields of leadership theory, gender equity, and the future of work and skills training. We inform our work through Strengths-Based Leadership practices.
Research driven, yet accessible and fun for young people, GLC seeks to contribute to the social and emotional development of adolescent girls in the following ways:
- Equip girls to develop and identify as leaders
- For over a decade we have facilitated Gallup's Strength-Based Leadership Assesment tool with participants and facilitators.
- Identiy and develop interests and passions
- Develop verbal and non-verbal communications skills
- Uncover phenomena related to gender bias and blindspots
- Understaning social interaction in adolescence and group formation theory
- Application of leadership skills esigning philanthropic projcets
- Collaboration vs. Cooperation for global change
Select from Our Signature Program Offerings
Bring one of our programs to your school today, meet with Meg to discuss the possibilities! HERE
Planting the Seed for Learning to Lead
Our signature program is designed for our youngest emerging leaders in grades 3-5th and 6-8th. This program features our signature elements and is designed to be the introduction to our work at GLC. Strengths-Explorer tool, group challenges, individual coaching, group formation theory, verbal and non-verbal communication, basic neurobiology and relevant developmental psychology made easily accessible and, most of all, FUN!
3 - 5th Grade
6 - 8th Grade
Girls in the Lead: Leadership Through Service (Levels 1 & 2)
Girls in the Lead: Leadership Through Service (Levels 1 & 2) Develop or hone the skills to design and execute a community-driven service learning project.
3 - 5th Grade
6 - 8th Grade
Creating Community
Identify the elements necessary to generate a productive, inclusive, and connected community. Practice using your strengths to amplify your voice, and the voices of others to achieve belonging. Apply this to your own communities (schools, teams, clubs, networks, volunteering, and life!)
6 - 8th Grade
Speaking, Presenting, and Putting Yourself Out There
This program focuses on the key drivers of effective communication: saying what you mean & meaning what you say. We provide real-world practice in public speaking, and is highly interactive. Verbal and non-verbal communication are broken down, revealing our risk/reward systems.
3 - 5th Grade
6 - 8th Grade
9 - 12th Grade
Girls in the Lead: Being Your Best Self
The first person you lead is YOU! This program focuses on each leader and her top 5 strengths. We explore themes of: self awareness, agency, autonomy, identity, self-concept vs. self-esteem, naming your strengths, sharing your strengths with others, and ultimately, identifying and leveraging the strengths in others.
6 - 8th Grade
Click, Post, Like & Comment: Looking at Leadership Through Mainstream Media
This new program will examine the relationship between what we see depicted in the media and how this affects our still-developing understanding of leadership. This thematic program will combine our signature elements and methods of creating a collaborative community with our fun and interactive group challenges and activities related to depictions of leadership in the media. Participants will receive a code to take the Strengths-Finder assessment tool, providing us with a deeper look at individual talents, which, when nurtured and practiced in a safe, supportive environment, become strengths that can be leveraged in a variety of situations. Girls will each develop her own schema for leadership and apply these new understandings to what they see and hear demonstrated in mainstream media. No prior GLC participation necessary to participate in this interactive and engaging program! (6-8th)
6 - 8th Grade
High School Leadership Institute: Path to Purpose (2 day or 1 week)
This program brings 9-12 graders together to help emerging leaders uncover their purpose. Through the stories of visiting game-changers who share their why and the impact they are making in the world, our leaders explore the threads and throughlines among their interests, how and where they spend their time, and what they would chose to work on to no fanfare or when nobody’s looking. Girls take part in mapping out their most meaningful inflection points to discover purpose and what motivates them. We turn these retrospective maps into navigational tools to live and engage more intentionally in things that matter to them. All participants take the Strengths-Finder assessment and receive individualized coaching. Girls define success for themselves and explore topics such as how to spot adaptive vs technical challenges, and how to leverage their strengths in their activities and communities.