This year has taken a lot from us. As we move through deep uncertainty — politically, socially, and personally — and experience great injustice, many of us have found ourselves questioning how best to respond, and where our leadership is most needed. At times we’ve acted boldly, at times we’ve paused, adapted, or leaned into care. This session is an opportunity to reflect on how we’ve each acted in response to challenge — and to reconnect with the agency and clarity we need to move forward.
Together, we’ll surface the range of ways people across our community have navigated this moment — whether by building bridges and connections, disrupting and raising the stakes, or other meaningful ways — and explore what each of these approaches makes possible. This isn’t about finding the one “right” way to respond, but about learning from the diversity of leadership choices and archetypes that are available for us to lean into.
Join us on December 12th for our final session of the year, Meet & Reflect: Navigating our Leadership Responses in Times of Uncertainty
Through reflection, story-sharing, and connection, we’ll explore how different approaches can enable us to act with agency and strategy. As we close out 2025, we’ll look ahead — by grounding ourselves in what we’ve learned in how we have responded to the challenges this past year, and how we want to show up in our work, our leadership, and our communities in the year to come.
This session will be led by Tanvi Girotra, non-profit leader, leadership trainer and coach.
Key Learning Points
Learning Objectives:
- Reflect on the range of ways you — and others in the LCN community — have responded to a year of global uncertainty, democratic backsliding, and deep injustice.
- Explore different leadership archetypes and actions in response to moments of challenge and crisis and consider what each approach makes possible.
- Ground yourself with a sense of agency, clarity, and purpose — and begin to map how you want to show up in your leadership and organizing in the year ahead.
Facilitator
Tanvi Girotra works as an advisor, trainer and coach to social impact organizations and mission-oriented leaders across the globe. Prior to learning Public Narrative and Organizing at the Harvard Kennedy School and joining Marshall’s teaching teams, Tanvi founded Becoming I Foundation – a young people’s movement focused on getting young people connected with community development and activism in India. She is the Vice Chair, Board of Directors of Fora – a center of excellence for young women’s leadership and was the National Advisor for GirlTrek – America’s largest health movement for black women. She is the Chair of the Board of Haiyya – one of India’s foremost capacity building organizations for young, feminist and anti-cast organizers.
Tanvi has served as an International Fellow for the Global Fund for Children and was awarded the William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India through which she helped build programs targeted at women and children in high risk communities. Tanvi has been awarded the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award, the Karamveer Puraskar for Justice and Citizen Action and her work has been recognized at the UN where she has been awarded for ‘Contribution to Humanitarian Development’. She has been invited to speak at the World Economic Forum at Davos, UN ECOSOC, UN WOMEN at the EU Development Days, the Clinton Global Initiative and at various TEDx conferences, alongside heads of state, social and business leaders.
Tanvi holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University where she frequently returns to teach and coach various student programs and fellowships on value-based leadership and storytelling. She calls New York and New Delhi home
