Extension Leadership Lab – Extension Foundation

Customized High Impact Leadership and Strategic Support

EXL is your destination for personal, professional, and organizational health. Whether you’re stepping into leadership for the first time, guiding teams through change, or shaping larger strategy, EXL provides the trusted support you need to lead with confidence, clarity, and impact. We do this by connecting our Land-grant partners with our network of expert partners including leaders from higher education, business, and beyond, who bring real-world experience and proven practices to help you succeed.

Our Partners

What’s Offered?

Development of People and Teams

Empowering individuals and teams to lead with purpose & effectiveness at every level.

Leadership Development: Practical, research-based programs to build authentic, self-aware leaders through coaching, workshops, and tools like Diary Detox®, Inner Leader, and cognitive mindset shifting.
Team Collaboration & Performance: Interactive workshops and facilitation to improve trust, psychological safety, communication, and shared accountability.
Change Leadership & Resilience: Simple, proven tools for navigating change, reducing resistance, and fostering engagement through inclusive leadership.
Practical Leadership Tools: Hands-on resources including effective human relations, influencing without authority, and emotional intelligence.
Leadership Transitions & Coaching: Individualized coaching for leadership transitions, from emerging leaders to senior executives, with customized development paths.

Strategic Consulting and High-Impact Engagements

Helping organizations align culture, structure, and strategy for maximum mission impact and sustainable growth.

Organizational Culture & Mission Alignment: Facilitated sessions to ensure culture supports mission, values are lived daily, and teams operate with clarity and purpose.
Organizational Assessments: Data-driven diagnostics revealing hidden barriers to performance, including time-waste patterns, leadership gaps, and culture misalignments.
Executive & Management Consulting: Strategic coaching on operational leadership, decision-making, stakeholder engagement, and growth planning.
Vision & Growth Strategy: Cross-team collaboration, retreats, and planning processes to co-create bold visions, align priorities, and drive growth.
Flexible Short- & Long-Term Support: From single-session facilitation to multi-year partnerships supporting leadership pipelines, organizational change, and community impact.

Your mission deserves support customized to your unique challenges.

Results You Can Expect

Self-aware, empowered leaders at all levels
High-performing, collaborative teams
Aligned organizational culture with clear purpose
Streamlined time use, reduced resistance to change
Clear, actionable strategies driving sustainable community impact

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The Extension Foundation is a nonprofit established in 2006 by Extension Directors and Administrators nationwide. Extension Foundation is embedded in the U.S. Cooperative Extension System and serves on Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP).

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This website is supported in part by New Technologies for Ag Extension (funding opportunity no. USDA-NIFA-OP-010186), grant no. 2023-41595-41325 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or the Extension Foundation.

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