Leading Change with Mike Perry
Learn to craft compelling public narratives, build strong teams, and design strategies that generate power for change.
Event Details
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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Online/Virtual
Cost: Free
Leadership Matters: Leading Change
Based on the Marshall Ganz/Harvard framework - proven in social movements, environmental advocacy, and community organizing - this workshop builds leadership skills rooted in a powerful premise: effective leadership doesn't come from authority, but from the ability to inspire action, forge relationships, and mobilize collective resources toward shared goals.
Participants will learn to:
- craft compelling public narratives through strategic storytelling;
- build and sustain successful teams and engaged constituencies; and
- structure strategy and tactics that generate power for change.
Drawing from Ganz's organizing principles and real-world examples from public health, care work and political campaigns, this session equips participants with practical tools to lead from a foundation of relationship and hope and design campaigns that win transformative, lasting change.
Presenter:
Mike Perry is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) at Trent's School for the Study of Canada. He has helped equip changemakers around the world with the concrete leadership and organizing skills they need to build power to win the change they, their people, and communities want to see. Having served as a Teaching Fellow for Marshall Ganz at Harvard University and former Executive Director of the Institute for Change Leaders (ICL) in Toronto, Mike has worked with students, labour leaders, activists, Indigenous governments, political candidates and parties, health care professionals, teachers, migrant worker leaders, and survivors of sexual violence to help bring about change. His most recent workshop for climate action was held at the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford. In 2022, Mike was elected Councillor, Ward 3, in his home municipality of the City of Kawartha Lakes.
Leadership Matters: Connecting Knowledge & Action
This virtual lecture series is hosted in partnership with Trent’s Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership and the Leadership & Democracy Lab, along with the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies and the Department of Political Studies. The series highlights diverse perspectives on leadership with the goal of sparking dialogue, sharing knowledge, and bridging leadership research with practice. Join leadership scholars, experts, and practitioners who showcase a diverse range of leadership expertise. View the full schedule of upcoming webinars.
Contact Info
Trent University Library & Archives