Steady Leadership in Unsteady Times

AFTER COMPLETING THIS COURSE, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO:

• Apply the five pillars of leadership to lead with clarity and confidence through periods of financial instability and rapid change.
• Develop a strategic and operational plan tailored to their library's current challenges and community needs.
• Build creative, resilient budgeting approaches that hold up under financial instability and shifting political pressures.
• Lead change and manage projects effectively, using practical tools to prepare staff and services for what's ahead.
• Foster accessible, inclusive leadership that supports cultural change within their organization.
• Balance people-focused leadership with organizational tools and systems, knowing when to lean on each.
• Use data collection and analysis to evidence impact, inform strategy, and make transparent decisions.
• Leave with a customized resource guide, including templates for planning, budgeting, and change management, ready to implement in your own library.

COURSE INSTRUCTORS

Frank Berlanga, Resource and Operations Manager

Frank Berlanga is an experienced Resource and Operational Manager, having worked across industries and large scale corporations to deliver operational and change and transformation of all types. Having worked extensively in his field he now delivers training and consultancy to support businesses in their leadership approaches and business continuity planning. Additionally he is highly experienced in using and training in advanced Excel, multiple WFM systems such as Teleopti, Injixo, Verint. Working knowledge of SQL and Snowflake

Amy Stubbing, University Librarian at Solent University, Southampton

Amy brings a wealth of experience across library leadership, collection management, and customer services. Amy is passionate about data literacy and integrating data practices into decision-making, and significant experience in supporting librarians to gain the skills to enable them to succeed in this area. As the author of the "Data-Driven Decisions Toolkit for Libraries," she has worked with libraries across the globe to implement these practices and offers bespoke training in a variety of settings.

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE

This course is designed for public and academic library leaders.

GROUP OPTIONS

Training a team? Choose the setup that matches how you want to plan and pay :

Group course enrollment: Enroll 3+ staff in this course and save.

Bulk course credits: Prepay once, get the highest per-seat discount on every course, and assign seats later.

Unlimited annual licensing: System-wide access for a year with no per-course approvals.

Request Discounted Group Pricing

Questions? Email groupsales@libraryjournal.com.

COURSE FORMAT

This will be an online course and will include:

Live sessions: Guest speaker presentations by leaders in their field. All sessions are recorded for on-demand access for six months after the course ends.

Facilitated discussions: Audience participation in Q&A and discussion with guest speakers.

Asynchronous workshop: On-demand project-based modules connecting what you’re learning to your professional practice. Includes peer-to-peer sharing via discussion forums.

Online classroom: The virtual learning platform holds all course content and remains accessible for six months after the course ends.

Note: The asynchronous work is designed to be completed over three weeks, but you will have six months of access to work at your own pace.

EXPECTED TIME COMMITMENT

If you attend or watch recordings of all live sessions and complete the 4-module workshop, you will spend approximately 12 hours on this course. You will earn 12 hours of professional development credit and a Library Journal certificate of completion.

ALL THE DETAILS

This will be a course focused on building the leadership skills required to thrive within modern library services during times of extreme and rapid change and financial instability. The workshops emphasize practical, forward looking leadership, encouraging participants to reflect on practice while developing the confidence to lead with clarity, inclusivity, and evidence-based decision making. This course makes use of a unique approach of combining the knowledge and skills of people focused leadership from an experienced library leader, and the specific techniques and approaches used for organizational planning in corporate environments.

The course will be delivered by Amy Stubbing and Frank Berlanga across two live sessions, allowing time for discussion, application, and reflection between sessions. All sessions are underpinned by skills in data collection and analysis, ensuring participants can evidence impact, inform strategy, and make confident, transparent decisions.

By the end of the two sessions, participants will have a resource guide that includes documents that can be used directly in your own organizations to plan and organize wholesale change and create planning processes for their service. This will include access to resource planning spreadsheet templates, strategic and operational plan templates, change management protocols and more.

ON-DEMAND ACCESS

All live guest speaker sessions are recorded and available on demand for six months following the initial broadcast as part of your purchase.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

Complete all course requirements to earn 12 professional development credit hours and a Library Journal certificate of completion. Certificates are emailed upon completion.

ACCESSIBILITY

All video recordings feature auto-captioning. If you require accommodations, please email course-support@libraryjournal.com upon registration and we will make our best efforts to support your needs.

SUPPORT

For technical or course-related support, please contact course-support@libraryjournal.com.