Our fellowship offering
The Carold Institute is proud to continue its work through the Flourishing Leadership Fellowship Program, a new iteration of our longstanding commitment to supporting leaders creating transformational change. This program embodies our mission to support leaders who inspire, enrich, and embolden efforts to bring about systemic change in today’s world.
Embodies principles of care, equity, and reciprocity, providing a reflective sabbatical to nurture individual and collective insights for systemic change.
Embraces a decolonizing approach that upholds dignity, addresses power dynamics, and centers marginalized perspectives.
Acknowledges rest and healing as integral to generating insights and contributing to the broader field of social and climate justice starting with prioritizing the well-being of womxn on the frontlines of social and environmental change.
Recognizes and supports the often-overlooked work of practitioners scaling "deep" rather than "up and out."
Flourishing Leadership Fellow 2024
We are thrilled to introduce Louise Adongo as the 2024 Fellow of the Flourishing Leadership Fellowship. Louise is a bold, grounded, and visionary leader with over 15 years of experience in systems change, policy, and evaluation. She is the founder of Caprivian Strip Inc. (CSI) and serves as a co-steward of the Transition Bridges Project.
In Louise’s own words:
"The opportunity, as a Fellow of the Carold Institute, to step back and reflect on my experiences as a Black Woman in leadership across multiple sectors, while deepening my work on equity and climate justice, is a critical personal milestone. This sabbatical will allow me to tune into what system transformation leaders need to shape the work of building strong collectives to respond to the crises of our times.”
Louise’s work reflects a deep commitment to untangling complex challenges and fostering shifts toward resilience, sustainability, and impact. Her belief in co-creating agile, transparent, and innovative institutional spaces underscores her approach to the reinvention required in today’s rapidly changing world—a lesson underscored by the global pandemic.
Prior to her current roles, Louise served as Executive Director of Inspiring Communities from 2021 to 2023. In this capacity, she led efforts in Atlantic Canada to create thriving, equitable communities through collaboration, social innovation, and systems design approaches.
With Makeway Foundation's support we had the pleasure of hosting this self-direct Fellowship for Louise Adongo, a bold, visionary leader with a deep commitment to untangling complex challenges and fostering shifts towards resilience and sustainability.
Through this fellowship Louise had the opportunity to reflect on her extensive leadership experiences, and explore the many facets of rest. She shares much of her journey during the fellowship as well as some of the insights and learnings from this experience in a series of Blogs published on Medium.
We invite you to read these Blogs here.