Community Conscious Leadership

Description

Tagline:
Looking for real change? We facilitate the process to get you there.

Course Description:
Miscommunication, low morale, and cultural disconnects are symptoms of deeper organizational challenges. Without conscious leadership, these issues can escalate into avoidable conflict, mistrust, and even legal risk. Community Conscious Leadership is transformative training designed for 21st-century changemakers ready to build stronger, safer communities and institutions.

This 10-week workshop, grounded in T4T’s Transformational Framework© and Integrated Cohort Learning Model©, helps leaders move beyond buzzwords to cultivate authentic connections, trust, and skills. Drawing from brain science, emotional intelligence, and ancestral knowledge, participants will explore how trauma shapes responses and behaviors. Leaders will learn to recognize their own triggers, how to center themselves during high-anxiety moments, and lead from a place of clarity and compassion.

Participants will:

• Goals: Increase earned press and funding opportunities
• Gain a shared language for trauma-informed systems and healing-centered approaches
• Identify and address personal leadership challenges.
• Create a personalized leadership growth plan.
• Develop tools to transform workplace conflict, interrupt harm, reduce the potential risk of liability, and restore trust, thereby reducing waste and optimizing performance.
• Improve team morale, increase retention, and strengthen public reputation.

Intended Audience:
Ideal for educators, parents, school administrators, service providers, government officials, civic leaders, nonprofit organizations, universities, K–12 schools, activists, and anyone seeking to lead with consciousness and care in today’s complex social climate.

Course Format & Details:
● Platform: Zoom (Virtual)
● Schedule: 1 day per week for 10 weeks
● Session Length: 90–120 minutes (includes a break)
● Cost: $350 or 10 weekly payments of $40

Facilitator:
Shenmiakhu (Shen-mee-Ahoo) Pernebsati is a leadership educator and faculty development professional with a strong record of designing and implementing high-impact programs in higher education, teacher training, and workforce development. With over 15 years of experience in academic and administrative roles, he has led initiatives that strengthen institutional effectiveness, support faculty and staff growth, and prepare professionals to step into leadership roles confidently.

Experience: At Portland Community College, he served as Director of the Oregon Leadership Institute and Retention and Multicultural Center Coordinator. In these roles, he built mentorship pipelines, led strategic planning processes, and developed interdisciplinary programs supporting student success and faculty advancement. He also played a central role in the college’s fundraising and grant initiatives, doubling scholarship funding through strategic partnerships.

As a full-time faculty member at Oregon State University and Portland Community College, he developed and taught student leadership and college guidance courses. His curriculum has empowered students and colleagues to lead with clarity, purpose, and adaptability in complex organizational settings.

Research: An experienced trainer and program designer, Shenmiakhu created Community Conscious Leadership, a professional development series for faculty, administrators, and
emerging leaders. This program focuses on communication, whole-brain decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration.

Teaching: His teaching background includes working with professionals from the U.S. and internationally in business, law, education, and government sectors. From teaching Harvard Business Case Studies to international professionals earning a Master’s in Business Administration from Oregon State University and the University of Delaware to coaching aspiring language teachers through TESOL certification programs, his work has consistently emphasized real-world application and results-oriented learning. With a career grounded in academic excellence, strategic planning, and hands-on leadership, Shenmiakhu continues to shape institutions and individuals to meet the demands of a rapidly changing educational and professional landscape.