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National Defender Leadership Institute (NDLI)


For program directors of all levels of experience, to enhance management and leadership skills and learn strategies that work.


NDLI Trainings

Nuts and Bolts of Leadership and Management (March 26-28, 2008)

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 will help 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.

Look below for NDLI Trainings in past years

New Leadership Training Seminar (August 23-25, 2006)

The National Defender Leadership Institute's (NDLI's) "New Leadership" seminar provides defender leaders with a set of skills they can deploy in their day-to-day work inside and outside the defender program. Developmental exercises involve practice sessions where communication skills are refined in core learning teams for small group sessions. Successful teaching models include: leadership practices inventory, "personal best" exercises, strategies for managing cross-function teams, managing organizational conflict, ways to develop cross-system partnerships and find unlikely allies for your public defense program.

Impact Leadership (May 30-June 2, 2007)

NDLI's "Impact Leadership" is an advanced training seminar for a select number of top-level defender leaders who will bring a current leadership challenge to be addressed over several days. The goal is to develop a very specific action plan and communications strategy for one issue that the defender leader wishes to impact. Communication skills, persuasion, and coalition-building skills will be emphasized. Each participant will explore specific ways to impact a group of stakeholders or generate positive change in a particular area of concern for public defense in their state.

More Information


For more information on schedules for future management and leadership training programs, contact Caitlin Colegrove at c.colegrove@nlada.org.