Rockwood Leadership Program

Though “leadership” is of paramount importance in the Jewish community, few organizations offer cutting-edge leadership skills tailored to a Jewish audience. In partnership with the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, Rockwood created a leadership training program for the Next Generation of Jewish Social Change Leaders. 

Applicants were selected to participate in a “collaborative training” which delivers a powerful and tested core set of leadership skills—purpose, strategic focus, partnership, state- shifting, performance, authenticity and personal ecology—in a four day management and leadership retreat. By providing theory and practice from top-notch management trainings and linking those teachings to the challenges faced by emerging Jewish leaders, Rockwood is beginning to build a cohort of individuals dedicated to being effective and enduring leaders in the Jewish community. 

The program met with rave reviews in its first year. Follow-up modules are now offered for the original cohort and a second year of the Leadership Program is underway. This is “an exciting new initiative that supports next generation leadership.” “It is a powerful model with great long-term potential.”