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ICL: Connecting Leaders to Action since 1993
ICL builds Maine’s civic capacity by training, supporting, engaging, and convening a growing network of skilled leaders. We bring innovative and inclusive models of leadership to Maine communities and organizations. We open doors and build new relationships. We inspire leaders. We move Maine forward. More »
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ICL Leadership Intensive
This 8-month, 14-day experience-based, skill development curriculum is for individuals, as well as senior and mid-management professionals of Maine’s public, private and nonprofit organizations. The Intensive teaches collaborative leadership and problem solving techniques. Now in its 20th year, the Intensive has graduated over 650 leaders and is widely touted by alumni as the best leadership training in Maine. More »
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ICL Consulting Services
We help organizations move forward using inclusive and thoughtful processes. Our highly-skilled, neutral facilitators and consultants are experienced solving complex communication and leadership challenges of Maine municipalities, for-profit and nonprofit organizations. More »
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ICL Emerging Leaders Program
ICL is working to reverse national statistics that suggest only 6 percent of board members nationwide are under 40 with an innovative program that prepares and launches Maine’s young emerging leaders to successful nonprofit leadership roles through leadership training, mentoring, matching and transitioning. More »
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[View all updates]Leaders Gathered for ICL 20th Anniversary...
posted on May 14th, 2013
A capacity audience of over 250 Maine leaders celebrated 20 years of ICL in our communities at Portland’s Ocean Gateway on May 2nd, 2013. The
More »Leading Change with Courage and Intention: an...
posted on April 2nd, 2013
Register for “Leading Change with Courage and Intention” a June 12th ICL workshop to be held at United Way Greater Portland, 9 – 4:30. Laura Moorehead and Amey
More »ICL 20th Anniversary Celebration May 2nd!...
posted on March 28th, 2013
Click to Visit our Events Page for Program Details on this Special Evening! THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS: Leader Sponsors: Woodard & Curran; WEX
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[View all Maine Leadership Stories]The Nature Conservancy...
In their combined 32 years with the Maine Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, ICL Leadership Intensive alumni Bruce Kidman as Director of External Affairs, and Tom Rumpf as Associate State Director, have provided ample opportunities to temper potentially – and sometimes actively – confrontational matters with collaborative approaches that enrich understanding and tolerance between stakeholders.
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Portland-based architecture firm Scott Simons Architects doesn’t get the easy projects, and that’s just the way the firm’s founder and an ICL alum, Scott Simons, likes it. Sometimes, his is the second or even third architect to be hired for a project, and thanks in large part to their ICL training, the firm that finally designs something the gets built. That was the case with the Portland Public Library. From the start, the firm had to overcome the obstacle of an eight-year gap since the design by the architect originally hired for the project’s design floundered from funding challenges.
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