The most advanced of NDLI's training programs, Impact Leadership is an intensive training program designed for chiefs, deputies, and other high-level administrators of any type of defender program, including appointed counsel leaders. Indigent defense reform advocates and members of community justice organizations are likewise welcome. Participants will bring a current leadership initiative to be addressed over several days, and are encouraged to attend as a team.

To be a successful manager you need a successful theory of management or supervision. Just as it takes a good theory of defense to win a criminal trial, it takes a good theory of management or supervision to solve problems in your office.

This seminar helps you learn to identify and develop your own skills, and use them to fashion a theory of management or supervision that will solve the problems and identify opportunities in your work.

This training session was targeted for current defender leaders and defense litigators who are making the transition to a leadership position. Interactive sessions explored the different dimensions of leadership including internal office responsibilities and developing skills for engaging in external outreach to other stakeholders in the criminal justice system and wider community.