Our Services

You're responsible for guiding significant change in your district or organization, but traditional strategic planning approaches feel inadequate for the complexity and unpredictability you're facing. You need flexible frameworks that keep equity at the center while allowing you to adapt as conditions shift.

Change Management
NEP will support you in applying an approach to change management that builds community trust, creates responsive implementation structures, and transforms conflict (both historical and real-time) into problem-solving opportunities. Guided by practical tools, methods and frameworks, you'll learn to design flexible goals, meaningfully engage diverse stakeholders, and measure progress in ways that honor both data and lived experience, building your system's capacity to navigate change with equity and intention.

You're leading a system-level initiative or project that requires you to bring diverse stakeholders together, navigate resistance and complexity, and sustain momentum toward ambitious goals. You need more than a technical fix; you need facilitative leadership skills to guide groups through adaptive challenges and build collective ownership of the work.

Coaching & Capacity Building
NEP provides customized coaching and facilitation support tailored to your real-time challenges. Through a combination of 1:1 coaching, collaborative planning, and direct facilitation support during key meetings, we strengthen your capacity to design meaningful convenings, navigate group dynamics, build high-functioning teams, and integrate equity into how decisions are made and voices are elevated. This developmental work is responsive to your context and focused on strengthening your facilitative leadership practice over time.

Your district is committed to educational equity, but you know that changing student experience requires more than new programs—it demands leadership teams with the capacity to redesign the organizational conditions that shape students' daily lives at school. You need strategic frameworks, sustained support, and connection with districts doing similar work.

District Redesign Network

The District Redesign Network (DRN) is a two-year leadership cohort (Fall 2026 to Spring 2028) that builds collective leadership capacity to transform how students experience school. Through structured convenings, ongoing coaching, and peer learning, your cross-functional team will ground redesign in the lived experiences of students most impacted by inequity, build practices for navigating complexity and making equity-centered decisions, and design and test changes to systems and structures that shape daily student experience. You'll develop the capacity to lead liberatory design cycles of inquiry and action as an ongoing practice in your district, building the internal leadership and organizational conditions necessary for sustained transformation. Learn more and apply for the next cohort.

Your organization, region, or cross-sector collaborative is committed to equity, but you recognize that meaningful change requires ongoing learning, relationship building, and collective capacity development. You need structured opportunities for staff or partners to develop shared understanding, challenge assumptions, and strengthen their practice together over time.

Communities of Practice
NEP facilitates year-long or multi-session Communities of Practice that center learning and adaptation as drivers of organizational change. Bringing together people from various programs, departments, or institutions, we create intentional learning communities where participants develop shared language and analysis, expand their capacity to use equity and systems thinking lenses, shift their practice in real time, and cultivate authentic relationships that interrupt existing institutional dynamics. The design is responsive to your context and goals, whether you're serving a single organization or cross-sector partners.

You recognize that incremental improvements won't address the deep inequities embedded in how your system functions. You're ready to fundamentally rethink structures, processes, and practices—but you need approaches that are grounded in data and lived experience, responsive to complexity, and co-designed with those most impacted. You want strategies, not rigid plans, that allow for learning and course correction as you go.

System Design & Redesign
NEP partners with you in adaptive, collaborative redesign processes that center equity and build your system's capacity for ongoing learning. Through a liberatory design process that incorporates stakeholder engagement, systems mapping, root cause analysis, and iterative prototyping, we help you understand how your current system functions, identify leverage points for change, and co-design approaches with diverse stakeholders, especially those that have been historically marginalized. We develop flexible strategies that account for complexity, interrogate power dynamics and resource distribution, and establish feedback loops so your system can continue evolving beyond the initial redesign. The timeline and scope are tailored to what you're reimagining, whether it's internal structures, cross-institutional initiatives, or community-wide efforts.

You want every student to experience authentic connection and see their identities affirmed in learning, but you're navigating questions about how to make this real in practice. You need approaches that go beyond surface-level strategies and help you understand what students are actually experiencing, build genuine partnerships with them, and make instructional decisions that are truly responsive to their needs.

Student Experience Design
NEP strengthens educators' capacity to build equitable instructional practices grounded in student experience and authentic partnership. Through professional learning, collaborative inquiry, and instructional coaching, we support you in gathering and acting on student voice and experience data, and building learning partnerships that center student humanity. Implement instructional frameworks (like Universal Design for Learning) in equity-centered ways and develop cultures of belonging where students engage as their whole selves. Our support is customized to your context and designed to deepen instructional practice over time.

Your team has been engaged in equity work, but momentum has stalled, capacity feels stretched, or you're facing new challenges that require fresh thinking. You need professional development that doesn't just deliver information but renews commitment, builds specific skills, and catalyzes actionable strategies your team can implement immediately.

Customized Professional Development
NEP provides customized professional development designed specifically for your district or organization's context and goals. Rather than one-size-fits-all workshops, we design experiences that meet your team where they are, introduce innovative concepts and tools, and create space for collaborative problem-solving. Our professional learning offerings renew teams' sense of purpose, equip leaders with practical skills they can apply right away, and generate the kind of fresh thinking that moves equity work forward.

You want access to proven frameworks and practical leadership development, but a custom engagement isn't the right fit for your current context. You need options that allow you to learn as an individual or bring a small team, connect with peers from other organizations facing similar challenges, and choose the format, focus, and time commitment that works for you right now.

Open-Registration Professional Learning
NEP offers open-registration professional learning (in-person institutes, virtual courses, and workshops) grounded in frameworks we've developed over 30 years including Leading for Equity™, Liberatory Design, and leading in complexity. Deepen your practice in coaching and managing for equity, designing and facilitating meetings, or navigating complex systems change through skillfully facilitated, experiential learning alongside peers from across sectors and geographies. Learning in community with leaders from different contexts enriches the experience, surfacing new questions, challenging assumptions, and deepening your understanding of how frameworks apply across different settings. Engage in transformative learning designed to catalyze your leadership and strengthen your practice. Learn more and register.

You're committed to strengthening your capacity to lead for equity, but you need flexibility to learn on your own timeline. You want access to proven frameworks and practical approaches that you can apply immediately in your context. You need foundational skills in areas like coaching, facilitation, and design, but scheduled cohorts or trainings don't fit your current reality.

Center for Equity Leadership Online (CEL Online)
We offer a library of self-paced courses grounded in NEP's Leading for Equity™ Framework, developed and refined over 30 years with thousands of leaders. You'll build practical leadership skills through interactive courses on coaching and managing for equity, designing and facilitating meetings, liberatory design, and leading in complexity. Each course includes videos guided by expert facilitators, reflective exercises to apply learning to your context, and tools and resources you can use immediately. Develop the capacity to see, engage, and act in new ways on your own schedule. Learn more here.