Course: NYU Certificate in Faith, Innovation, and Social Impact

As clergy, lay leaders, and civil society leaders in the 21st century, we face leading our organizations through rapidly emerging complexity, with significant challenges and opportunities. Our organizations are also rooted in communities experiencing that same complexity through new and evolving social challenges—climate change, gun violence, housing affordability, economic disparity, racial injustice, mental health crisis, and more. As we seek to lead evolving organizations, serve evolving communities, and address evolving challenges, we need some new strategies and mindsets. We need to be able to innovate—to think about problems differently, to see new opportunities, to build new solutions. Leaders who serve with an innovation mindset stand to contribute exponentially, both in their organizations and in the community at large.