What this is not
This is not a leadership seminar. It is not a motivational program. It is not a networking event dressed up as education. The Leadership Lab is a 12-week cohort-based program in which participants build an actual community initiative from scratch — with real mentorship, real accountability, and real peers doing the same thing beside them.
The 12-week structure
Diagnosis (weeks 1–3)
Identify a specific, local problem worth solving. Map existing assets and stakeholders. Define success concretely. Most leaders fail here — they're too vague too early.
Design (weeks 4–6)
Structure the initiative. Build the team. Create the participation model. Learn facilitation, conflict navigation, and distributed leadership tools.
Launch (weeks 7–9)
First public event or action. Real people, real feedback, real adjustments. The cohort supports each other through the vulnerability of starting.
Sustain (weeks 10–12)
Build the systems that keep it running without you. Hand off where needed. Connect to the Human Unity network. Commit to the next 90 days.
Who should apply
People who have thought "someone should do something about this" and are ready to become someone. No prior leadership experience required. Required: a specific community you are embedded in, a problem you care about, and 5–8 hours per week for 12 weeks.
What you leave with
A working initiative
Not a plan — an active, running community project with real participants and a 90-day momentum plan.
A cohort
14 peers who went through it with you. A peer accountability and support network that continues after the Lab ends.
A facilitator toolkit
Frameworks, templates, and tools for running groups, navigating conflict, and sustaining momentum.
Network access
Connection to the Human Unity network — resources, mentors, and other chapter leaders nationwide.