Pathways to Leadership: A Self-Paced Journey for HBCU Librarians

Your expertise brought you here. Strategy will take you further.

Pathways to Leadership is a self-paced course designed for early and mid-career HBCU library professionals, with four meaningful modules and a companion workbook to help you reflect and plan as you go. Each module includes Thoughts from the Field, where you will hear from colleagues who bring real experience, honest perspective, and proof of where the work can take you. Here’s a look at what you’ll explore.

Module One: Career Discovery starts with you: your strengths, your values, and your personal brand.
Module Two: Emerging Leadership Skills is about leading from where you are, building the communication, influence, and trust that move you and your team forward.
Module Three: Intergenerational Management and Succession Planning prepares you to navigate a multigenerational workplace, build stronger teams, and position yourself for new opportunities.
Module Four: Fundraising and Budget Management shows you how to read the funding landscape and make the case for your library.

Meet Your Instructors
Kimberly Brown, CEO, Brown Leadership
LaTrice Curtis-Istance, Interim Library Director, Coppin State University
Dawn Kight, Dean of Libraries, Southern University and A&M College