Nathalie Al-Zyoud led a session on shifting power dynamics for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy during EPIP's annual conference in Detroit, Michigan.

Power, in the field of conflict resolution, is defined as the ability to bring about a preferred outcome. Traditional leadership has typically relied on directive strategies to manage employees, fearing that shared decision-making risks a loss of one’s chosen solution.

To help create a cohesive team based on the inclusion and respect for diverse value systems, future leaders will be challenged to recreate institutional structures that weave together a number of different threads instead of relying on the status quo to guide their path. In this session, participants practiced finding common ground that honors a broad range of experiences and worldviews.