Organizational Change Initiative

Organizations are more effective in achieving their mission when they are healthy, supportive workplaces. We know that internal organizational work isn’t separate from external programs. We’ve seen the world and people’s relationship to work change over the last few years.

The Roundtable helps organizations create these work environments by offering a variety of organizational change programs to create more ease navigating shifting expectations in the workplace and build skills around decision-making, conflict, communication, trust, and transparency.

We started the organizational change initiative by building understanding across the network about the patterns, challenges, and opportunities around conflict we’ve seen across the field. Through this process, we also built investment among key Roundtable stakeholders to address it.

We chose to focus on conflict skills in an effort to name and normalize conflict practices. We offered spiritual tools and frameworks for understanding conflict, personal skill-building opportunities, and organizational coaching and cohort programs to address conflict at the system level.

We then introduced and began to train the network in the core skill we are focused on: communicating effectively across conflict. We supported our affiliates to build (and rebuild) relationships in the Jewish social justice sector so that leaders can share successes and challenges in organizational culture work and ask for peer support. In the first year of this work, over 150 individuals from 45 organizations were trained or supported in their organizational culture work either through a virtual or in-person training, a cohort, or a 1:1 consultation.