Aspire Cohorts

Aspire Cohorts are small, curated leadership groups for nonprofit and social impact professionals who are ready to grow, stretch, and lead with more clarity.

This is not a training, and it’s not a webinar series. It’s a transformation container. You bring your real leadership tensions, decisions, and aspirations. We bring structure, coaching, and a community that helps you move forward.

Apply for Spring 2026

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Why You, Why Now?

Perspective

Feeling stuck inside an echo chamber? Aspire gives you fresh lenses, honest reflection, and input from leaders outside your organization, so you can approach real problems with renewed creativity and clarity.

Career Growth

Ready to grow, but lacking access to leadership development that fits mission-driven work? Aspire helps you strengthen how you lead, expand your confidence, and take your next step with steadiness, right where you are.

Breakthrough

Sometimes the biggest hurdle is the story you’re telling yourself about what’s possible. Aspire helps you surface limiting patterns, unlock new strategies, and create real movement on a challenge you’ve been carrying.

Belonging

Many leaders feel alone, especially those leading with a different lived experience or perspective. Aspire connects you to a lasting peer network that stays valuable long after the cohort ends.

What is Aspire?

Aspire Cohorts are designed to build organizational capacity by strengthening the people carrying the work. When leaders gain clarity, confidence, and better tools for navigating complexity, their teams and organizations feel the difference.

Aspire is built for leaders who want meaningful growth without hype, and who value both practical tools and honest reflection.

The Outcomes we Coach Toward

Encouragement and Support

You’ll build trusted relationships with peers who understand the realities of nonprofit leadership. This cohort is designed to feel supportive, steady, and real.

Breakthrough on a Major Challenge

You’ll choose one meaningful leadership challenge and work it through over the arc of the cohort. Expect movement, not just insight.

Objective Self Awareness

Get clearer about your patterns, strengths, and blind spots, especially under pressure. The goal is not perfection. It’s fresh insight from peers your can trust.

A Safe Space to Vent and Be Human

Aspire makes room for the emotional load of leadership without turning the cohort into therapy. You’ll have space to name what’s true and move forward with more steadiness.

The Basics

Format: 5 live cohort sessions on Zoom
Session length: 90 minutes per session
Cohort size: Intentionally small to protect depth, trust, and real airtime
Who it’s for: Leaders across mid-career and executive roles who want to elevate how they lead, navigate a season of change, or stabilize under the weight of complexity and overload, without losing themselves in the process
Cadence: A consistent rhythm designed for busy leaders. Live sessions plus light between-session reflection or application
Time needed between sessions: Light lift. Expect no more than 60 minutes between sessions.
What you’ll get: Practical tools, peer support, coaching-style facilitation, and a clear arc that helps you apply what you’re learning in real time
Investment: $1,850 per participant
Scholarships & sliding scale: Availabile
Payment plans: Available
Employer reimbursement: Common. If you need a simple reimbursement letter for professional development funds, we’ll provide one.

Have a specific Question? Email us: aspire@thecollaborativecollective.org

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