• Disrupting Traditional Leadership and Rebuilding Community

  • Lead the Way is putting the power into the hands of the People.

  • We are redefining what leadership looks, sounds, and feels like, in order to disrupt structural barriers, injustice, inequity, and social decay in our communities.

Featured Programs

Grounded in Mission and Anchored by Your ‘Why?’

A LEAD THE WAY Intro Workshop

  • LEAD THE WAY is offering an introductory workshop to groups where participants will have the opportunity to engage in spirited, wholistic, brave, and transformational spaces with innovative and groundbreaking leadership principles that teaches community and supports the unleashing of their own limitless imagination and dreams.

    We design and facilitate spaces with deep intention using the following frameworks: Community Building and Care, Youth Development Methodologies, Groundbreaking Leadership Philosophy, and Anti-Oppressive Leadership Practices.

    Group outcomes:

    • Deepened sense of belonging amongst group

    • Group is able to connect their personal mission to larger group mission

    • Group is able to articulate the intended impact on community and connect it back to the mission

    • Each individual feels seen, heard, and valued

    Workshop Structure

    This workshop is offered virtually

    This workshop can be facilitated in one 2 hour session (for maximum impact we recommend two workshops length depending on the size of the group)

  • Register your group for this workshop HERE!

Community Freedom Leaders Seminar

For High School & College Students

  • The Community Freedom Leaders Seminar will gather students on campuses and in their classrooms for a non-partisan interactive experience where they will:

    • Learn how young people have been a fundamental driver of major movements throughout the history of the United States

    • Be introduced to the history of freedom leaders in America

    • Deepen connectedness to community

    • Learn the intersection of ones purpose and the vitality of community

    • Define their purpose in community

    • Experience the power of group grounding exercises

    Participants will identify how they will contribute to the collective way forward. Learn more about this program here.

  • This workshop is 90 mins. Click here to request more info and sign your student group up!

WE WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM People-to-People Workshops

For Everyday Concerned People

  • We Who Believe in Freedom is a transformative workshop designed for everyday concerned individuals seeking to align their personal mission with the collective pursuit of freedom and justice. Drawing inspiration from the wisdom of our ancestors and the lessons of history, participants will embark on a journey of rediscovery, personal empowerment, and community building.

  • These workshops will be hosted at the MLK Memorial Library in Washington D.C. click here to join the waitlist.

Our Five Elements for Groundbreaking Leadership

  • Anti-oppressive Leadership Development & Capacity Building

  • Youth Leadership & Development

  • Community & Movement Building

  • Program Development & Strategic Planning

  • Civic Education & Political Development

“Anywhere there’s people, there is power.” 

– Revolutionary Fred Hampton, Youth Activist and Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement

Our Change Values

  • Commitment

  • Community

  • Collaboration

Land Acknowledgement

Lead the Way delivers programs on the occupied lands of the Piscataway and Susquehannock, the Indigenous people of what today is known as Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. We recognize the history of colonization and its impact on first peoples. Find out whose land you occupy.