Our most anticipated annual event is back once again! Join us and embark on an extraordinary journey at the Leading Change Network’s Annual Community Meet 2024 (ACM24).

This year, we’re dialing up the excitement with an inspiring lineup of speakers, including the legendary Marshall Ganz, distinguished members of the LCN community, and dynamic community voices that bring our shared vision to life!

Designed with our global community in mind, the event is hosted in 2 sessions across 2 timezones (Asia Morning and Americas Morning) to ensure everyone, regardless of where they are in the world, can be a part of our unfolding story.

Following last year’s gathering, which marked an unforgettable saga of unity, strength, and optimism, we are poised to elevate this year’s experience to new heights of inspiration and collective action. Whether you’ve been a cornerstone of the LCN community or have recently embarked on this transformative journey with us, your role is pivotal. We invite you to immerse yourself in our shared vision and celebration!

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15th May – Asia Morning Session
18th May – Americas Morning Sesssion

• Aspiring Change-Makers passionate about making a difference, looking for the tools, knowledge, and network to kickstart or advance their impact journey.
• Activists and Community Organizers eager to learn new organizing and narrative techniques to mobilize their communities for action and advocacy.
• Members of nonprofit organizations seeking innovative strategies to enhance their mission effectiveness and community engagement.
• Visionary entrepreneurs and business leaders driven by a mission to solve social issues and create sustainable change through their enterprises.
• Academics, teachers, and students in fields related to social change, public policy, and leadership looking to deepen their understanding and apply these insights in educational settings.
• Anyone who is interested in leading for change!

At ACM24 you’ll:

• Hear from Marshall Ganz and other visionary leaders on strategies in organizing and narrative practices, offering unparalleled insights into community organizing.
• Network and connect with a global community of change-makers and build valuable relationships that could shape the future of your projects and initiatives.
• Be motivated by innovative and inspiring real-life success stories from individuals and organizations that have made a tangible impact and driven change within their communities.

As Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing and Civil Society at the Kennedy School of Government, Marshall Ganz teaches, researches, and writes on leadership, narrative, strategy and organization in social movements, civic associations, and politics. He grew up in Bakersfield, California where his father was a Rabbi and his mother, a teacher. He entered Harvard College in the fall of 1960. He left a year before graduating to volunteer with the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project. He found a “calling” as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and, in the fall of 1965 joined Cesar Chavez in his effort to unionize California farm workers. During 16 years with the United Farm Workers he gained experience in union, political, and community organizing; became Director of Organizing; and was elected to the national executive board on which he served for 8 years. During the 1980s he worked with grassroots groups to develop new organizing programs and designed innovative voter mobilization strategies for local, state, and national electoral campaigns. In 1991, in order to deepen his intellectual understanding of his work, he returned to Harvard College and after a 28-year “leave of absence” completed his undergraduate degree in history and government. He was awarded an MPA by the Kennedy School in 1993 and completed his PhD in sociology in 2000. He has published in the American Journal of Sociology, American Political Science Review, American Prospect, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Stanford Social Innovation Review and elsewhere. His newest book, Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement was published in 2009, earning the Michael J. Harrington Book Award of the American Political Science Association. In 2007-8 he was instrumental in design of the grassroots organization for the 2008 Obama for President campaign. In 2010 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in divinity by the Episcopal Divinity School. In association with the global Leading Change Network of organizers, researchers and educators he coaches, trains, and advises social, civic, educational, health care, and political groups on organizing, training, and leadership development around the world.