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Leadership as Connection: Understanding, Elevating, and Collaborating with Kate Rickord

This 90-minute interactive training is designed to help individuals explore their unique leadership style, deepen their ability to attune to the needs of others, and foster collaboration across diverse roles. Participants will gain practical tools to empower their leadership while recognizing the importance of connection and shared purpose.

Connected Cohort Objectives:

1. Understanding Leadership Styles & Interactions

2. Elevating the Leadership of Others 

3. Collaboration Across Roles

(Webinar is FREE for AspireMN Members)

Kate Rickord

Kate Rickord, MA, LP, SEP is a Master’s Level Licensed Psychologist, specializing in trauma, parenting, and somatic experiencing. Kate serves as the Director of Quality Parenting Initiative-Minnesota. She played a key role in bringing the national advocacy strategy to Minnesota in 2017. Additionally, Kate serves as the Quality Parenting Outreach (QPO) Lead at the Youth Law Center in California. 

Kate is committed to supporting transformation across personal healing, family dynamics, organizational structures, and policy shifts. Her work with QPI fosters diversity in perspective, helping to reimagine the child welfare system through collaboration with youth, families, professionals, and communities. By bringing together diverse voices, she helps shape more inclusive and effective approaches to parenting.

Kate holds a Master of Arts in Counseling and Psychological Services from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and an Interdisciplinary Certificate in Trauma Studies from the University of Minnesota. Kate is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and a board-approved supervisor for the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy. She is the Co-Director of the Resiliency & Health Institute. 

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This training is part of the 2025 AspireMN Leadership Certificate. This training is the sixth training for the Certificate.

Training is open to all AspireMN members. You are not required to register for the AspireMN Leadership Certificate to participate in this training.

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