The Steady Heart of Leadership: Lunch & Learn with Fellowship Alumni

In-Person
  • DATE / TIME
FROM   February 25, 2026 - 11:30 AM PST
TO   February 25, 2026 - 1:30 PM PST

Lunch and Learn for Jewish LearningWorks Fellowships Alumni

As professionals in Jewish communal life, the last two years have led us to significant personal and organizational inquiries, putting us face-to-face with the how of leadership. Our next Fellowships Alumni Gathering aims to respond to this reality by creating a space for playful collaboration, text study, and adaptive leadership strategies to help you shift your mindset to the why of leadership — the steady heart that sustains you, and your work.

During our time together we'll explore:

  1. Personal strengths to move forward
  2. Strategies to stay aligned to your values, vision and mission
  3. Components of change to undo and remake

Program Details

  • Aimed at: Alumni across Jewish LearningWorks Fellowships.
  • When: Wednesday, February 25, 2026 from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm.
  • Where: Jewish Experience Lab at Congregation Emanu-El (2 Lake St. San Francisco, CA, 94118)
  • Facilitated by: Dr. Mindy Gold.
  • Contact us: For more information or any questions you may have, please contact Jenni Mangel, Senior Director of Impact and Evaluation, at jenni@jewishlearning.org.

This is an invitation-only event.
Lunch will be provided. Please view our kashrut policy.

About Our Facilitator

Dr. Mindy Gold is the founder and principal consultant of Gold Learning Solutions, a consulting practice focused on supporting professional learning and organizational change in Jewish educational contexts. As a former elementary school teacher, she brings her classroom and leadership experience to her work with early childhood, K-12, and communal leaders. Mindy is a faculty member of the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute (MTEI). She teaches in MTEI’s Educators as Designers strand, focusing on participatory action research and design thinking methodologies. In addition, she provides instructional design support for the MTEI faculty and is the instructor for the MTEI-Hebrew Union College Certificate in Jewish Educational Leadership course series.

As part of her commitment to research in Jewish education, Mindy serves as Associate Editor, Practitioner Research Portfolio for the Journal of Jewish Education. Based in Nashville, TN, Mindy enjoys the long garden growing season and music venues with her husband as well as being an honorary Hawkeye and ‘Cane in support of her two sons’ collegiate journeys.

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