Community & Influence Series™

Black Women Who Mentor™ Pathway
8 Modules | 8 Learning Hours | Certificate Awarded | 180-Day Access

Leadership grows through relationships.

Leadership does not develop in isolation. It grows through the relationships that shape trust, belonging, access, accountability, learning, opportunity, and influence. The Community & Influence Series™ is an eight-module leadership development experience that helps learners strengthen the relational practices required to mentor, sponsor, communicate, collaborate, and use influence in ways that create meaningful opportunity for others.

Through reflection, practical application, and intentional action, learners examine how they show up in relationships, how their credibility is experienced, how they develop and advocate for others, and how their presence can strengthen teams, professional communities, institutions, and the spaces they are positioned to serve.

Grounded in the CODE™ Standard and Guided by the Purple Emergence Methodology™

Every Leadership Pathway™ within the Center for Leadership Excellence is grounded in the CODE™ Standard—Competence, Oversight, Documentation, and Execution—and guided by the Purple Emergence Methodology™, which moves learners through reflection, discovery, practice, and transformation. Together, these frameworks help learners translate relational leadership knowledge into purposeful, accountable, and sustainable action.

What You’ll Learn

• Build stronger, more intentional leadership relationships grounded in trust, reciprocity, and accountability.
• Mentor and develop others in ways that strengthen confidence, judgment, capability, and agency.
• Use sponsorship, advocacy, access, and credibility responsibly to help create opportunity for others.
• Communicate and collaborate with greater clarity, courage, dignity, and awareness of power and difference.
• Steward networks, presence, and influence with purpose while protecting boundaries, authenticity, and sustainability.

Who Should Enroll

• Emerging leaders
• Supervisors and managers
• Directors and executives
• Entrepreneurs
• Educators
• Mentors and sponsors
• Nonprofit and community leaders
• Professionals who lead teams, committees, programs, or partnerships
• Anyone committed to strengthening relationships and using influence in service of others

Series Modules

Module 1: Relationships as Leadership Infrastructure™

Explore how the relationships around you shape your confidence, judgment, belonging, access, accountability, and growth.

Module 2: Trust, Reciprocity & Relational Credibility™

Learn how trust is built through consistency, reliability, honesty, boundaries, accountability, reciprocity, and follow-through.

Module 3: Mentorship that Develops Others™

Strengthen your ability to mentor in ways that build another person’s confidence, judgment, capability, and independence.

Module 4: Sponsorship, Advocacy & Opening Doors™

Learn how to use access, credibility, relationships, and influence to help qualified people become visible and considered for opportunity.

Module 5: Communication that Builds Connection™

Develop communication practices that create clarity, dignity, participation, trust, and responsible follow-through.

Module 6: Collaboration Across Difference™

Learn how to create collaborative spaces where people with different perspectives, roles, identities, and experiences can contribute meaningfully.

Module 7: Networks, Presence & Purposeful Influence™

Move beyond transactional networking and learn to steward relationships, credibility, visibility, access, and influence with purpose.

Module 8: Leadership Studio™: Influence in Service of Community™

Bring the full series together by creating a focused Community & Influence Leadership Blueprint and a realistic 90-day leadership commitment.

Purple Harvest Trilogy™ Companion Resource

The Purple Harvest Trilogy™ serves as a companion resource for the Black Women Who Mentor™ learning journey. Learners are encouraged to engage with the trilogy as they explore identity, wellness, leadership, relationships, purpose, and legacy.

The trilogy is available for purchase on Amazon.

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The books are recommended companion resources and are not required for course completion.

Completion Information

Learning Hours: 8
Certificate: Awarded Upon Successful Completion
Access Period: 180 Days

Course completion does not remove access during the enrollment period. Certificates remain available throughout the active access period.

Continue Your Learning Journey

Leadership development is a lifelong journey. Continue building your knowledge, strengthening your relationships, expanding your influence, and deepening your impact by exploring additional Leadership Pathways™ through the Center for Leadership Excellence at Purple Sheep Institute™.

Leadership Reflection

“Your influence is not measured by how many people know your name, but by how intentionally your leadership helps others grow, connect, contribute, and become more capable.”

— Purple Sheep Institute™