PACIFIC LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Our VISION: Sustainable public service systems grounded in love and compassion.
Our MISSION: Develop 21st-Centuiry leaders committed to awakening the heart of humanity.
Our STORY . . .The Pacific Leadership program came about because of the challenges facing local governments and other organizations providing public services. We are keenly aware of the difficulties faced to attract and recruit talent and retain employees in these activist and contentious times. Municipalities are facing the growing need for their work force to have meaning in why they show up every day. As a response, the Pacific Leadership Program was launched in 2017, as a new learning opportunity for west coast organizations. Program founders Stacey McLaughlin and Juan Lopez have served local governments for over 40 years and are dedicated to helping cities, counties and other agencies understand the motivations of emerging leaders while also providing the learning opportunities to respond to those needs.
As former local government administrators Juan and Stacey made the decision to develop the Pacific Leadership Program from conversations with thought leaders that included their former colleagues, current clients and personal mentors, many who are now members of the PLP staff.
We are facing some crazy times across the globe and here in our own country. These tensions trickle down into our local communities, organizations and each other in numerous ways. The Pacific Leadership program is an opportunity to examine these pressures, claim leadership and explore techniques to secure steadiness for our organizations, our communities, employees and ourselves.
Our program is focused on employee skill building that meets the mission of creating “new governance cultures that are a force for good.” Our program offers unique scholarship, combining realistic issues facing a local government with development of the personal attributes that enable the ability to interact effectively and harmoniously with others. At the Pacific Leadership Program, we work together in the spirit of compassion and love, a core principle of PLP, to refresh our spirits, renew our purpose and our commitment to serve.
"Of all the things that sustain a leader over time, love is the most lasting.
The best-kept secret of successful leaders is love:
staying in love with leading, with the people who do the work,
with what their organizations produce, and with those who honor
the organization by using its work."
-James Kouzes and Barry Posne