Our Approach

Leadership is relational. Change is collective.

The network could articulate a few principles rather than presenting itself as having a single model of “queer leadership.”

Queer leadership is contextual

There is no single way to be a queer leader. Leadership is shaped by institutional, geographic, cultural, social, and historical contexts.

Knowledge lives in many places

Research matters. So does lived experience, community knowledge, organizational memory, and the knowledge developed through everyday acts of resistance and care.

We learn across difference

Our network intentionally brings together people with different experiences of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, ability, geography, generation, and professional context.

We value action

Dialogue is a starting point, not an endpoint. We are interested in how ideas can become practices, policies, relationships, and organizational change.

We build across generations

Emerging and experienced leaders have different forms of knowledge to share. Creating opportunities for reciprocal mentorship helps ensure that knowledge is not lost and that new possibilities can emerge.

The emphasis on cross-generational knowledge-sharing and different intersecting experiences comes directly through in your source document and could become a particularly distinctive feature of the network.