PMWL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: MODULE 1
the next chapter OF PUBLIC MEDIA depends on courageous leaders like YOU.
The PMWL Leadership Academy isn’t just a training series—it’s a movement. Level up, build your skills, expand your influence, and help shape independent, trusted, and unstoppable public media for the future. Lead boldly. Inspire change. Make it yours.
Participants in the PMWL Leadership Academy gain access to a rich bundle of career-boosting resources designed to extend learning beyond the live sessions. This includes recordings of every course, practical tip sheets, planning guides, templates, and actionable tools to help you implement strategies immediately. Plus, curated materials for reflection, goal-setting, and skill-building ensure you leave each session equipped to take bold steps, advance your career, and amplify your impact in public media.
SCHEDULE: pmwl LEADERSHIP ACADEMY MODULE 1 - February 18 - March 26, 2026
Career Catalyst: Future-Proof Your Career
Through interactive courses, coaching, and hands-on exercises, you’ll future-proof your career, lead with purpose, innovate with confidence, and build the relationships that open doors. The stakes have never been higher, and the impact has never been greater. Your leadership will ensure that public media remains fearless, trusted, and unstoppable—today and for generations to come.
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Instructor: Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 10 AM TO 12 PM PST / 1 PM TO 3 PM EST
The rules of the “game” are constantly changing, and it is critical that you learn to manage change and disruption so you can harness opportunity. Learn how to reframe how you look at the world of work, your options, and your career path to continually create opportunity and mitigate risk. Learn to identify thought patterns that stop you from creating opportunities and leave with concrete steps you can take to secure your career future. -
Instructor: Iris Drayton-Spann, MA, PHR, CDE, SHRM-CP
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 - 10 AM TO 12 PM PST / 1 PM TO 3 PM EST
Get the tools you need to lead with clarity, confidence, and impact. Define your personal purpose through coaching, strengthen your essential soft and strong skills, and learn how to build intentional, relationship-driven networks. You’ll complete this course with practical strategies to grow influence, navigate change, and position yourself for opportunity at any stage of your career, empowering you to lead authentically and effectively in today’s evolving workplace. -
Instructor: Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch
Wednesday, March 4, 2026- 10 AM TO 12 PM PST / 1 PM TO 3 PM EST
Learn to leverage the Design Thinking process to build career confidence, create opportunities and level-up your career/life in ways you might not be able to imagine today. The Design Thinking methodology can help you move toward an unclear future, accelerate a goal you want to achieve, or create new ways to think about problems and situations where you feel stuck and powerless. -
Instructor: Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 - 10 AM TO 12 PM PST / 1 PM TO 3 PM ESTIn a rapidly evolving media landscape, career paths are no longer linear – especially for workers balancing passion, purpose, and personal growth. Whether you are feeling stuck, seeking more alignment, contemplating a bold leap into something new entirely, this session provides inspiration, practical frameworks, and actionable strategies to help you gain clarity and take your next step. Drawing on insights from design thinking, psychology and career coaching, participants will explore what fulfillment means to them now, uncover overlooked strengths and transferable skills and begin shaping a career story that feels both meaningful and sustainable.
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Instructor: Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 10 AM TO 12 PM PST / 1 PM TO 3 PM ESTBuilding a professional network is more than just asking people to connect on LinkedIn or trading business cards at an event. It is about building relationships over time that lead to mutual benefit. Learn how to build your “relationship capital” through a variety of active and passive strategies that ensure your name stays top of mind, so opportunities flow your way.
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Group Leader: Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch
GROUP MENTORING SESSION A
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 - 10 AM TO 12 PM PST / 1 PM TO 3 PM ESTPMWL’s group coaching sessions with Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch provide an excellent chance to reinforce and expand on the insights and strategies from her courses. A trusted career and leadership coach with over 20 years’ experience, Ingrid brings deep knowledge, skilled facilitation, and actionable guidance to every session. Participants will reflect, engage, and apply course concepts to their own career paths—building clarity, accountability, and forward momentum in a collaborative, supportive group environment.
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Group Leader: Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch
GROUP MENTORING SESSION B
Thursday, March 26, 2026 - 10 AM TO 12 PM PST / 1 PM TO 3 PM ESTPMWL’s group coaching sessions with Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch provide an excellent chance to reinforce and expand on the insights and strategies from her courses. A trusted career and leadership coach with over 20 years’ experience, Ingrid brings deep knowledge, skilled facilitation, and actionable guidance to every session. Participants will reflect, engage, and apply course concepts to their own career paths—building clarity, accountability, and forward momentum in a collaborative, supportive group environment.
Meet Your Instructors
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Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch, MA
Iris Drayton-Spann, MA, PHR, CDE, SHRM-CP
Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch is a sought-after career and leadership coach, employee engagement consultant and speaker. Her unique experience working at the intersection of design thinking, cognitive psychology and creative thought has helped over 5,000 people transform their careers and businesses.
With over 20 years of experience, Ingrid has worked with a globally diverse population across a wide range of industries and sectors. She speaks regularly at businesses, educational institutions and professional organizations, including Harvard University. Whether addressing large audiences or working one-on-one, Ingrid is known for her engaging, practical, and deeply human approach to career and leadership development. Ingrid is not a typical career counselor, trainer, and coach.
In addition to her professional work, she is an internationally recognized artist known for transforming recycled and everyday objects into something entirely new. This creative process mirrors the way she coaches clients – helping them see new possibilities and reimagine what is possible in their careers and businesses. Ingrid is the founder of Mosaic Careers and past Director of Career Development andEngagement at AAFCPA’s a public accounting and consulting firm.
Iris Drayton-Spann, MA, PHR, CDE, SHRM-CP, is a Managing Director at Stanton Chase in Washington, D.C., with extensive experience in executive search across for-profit, nonprofit, and public media sectors. She specializes in executive placements, board appointments, leadership assessments, succession planning, and DEI-focused consulting, as well as executive coaching.
Prior to Stanton Chase, Iris served as Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Diversity Officer at WETA TV, one of the nation’s largest public television producers. She holds a Master of Arts from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Howard University, and is certified by SHRM, HRCI, and The Institute for Diversity as a Certified Diversity Executive.
Iris has been recognized among Mogul’s Top 100 DEI Leaders, DCA Live’s 25 HR Leaders of the Year, and received the President’s Award from the DC Chapter of the National Black MBA Association.
Ready to take your leadership to the next level?
JUST A FEW SIMPLE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
1. Review the course schedule (listed above)
2. Pick your course
3. Complete your payment (click here)
4. Register for the Zoom session for your specific course (see above)
5. Check out the course materials (we’ll send then to you after you register)
6. Join us and come ready to grow!
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PMWL Members receive discounts on Leadership Academy courses. Join us today!
LEADERSHIP ACADEMY IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE SUPPORT OF OUR MEMBERS AND FUNDERS:
Wyncote Foundation: Investing in Leadership
Wyncote Foundation has been a visionary partner to PMWL at a pivotal moment for public media leadership. Its early and sustained investment helped launch and strengthen PMWL’s most critical initiatives, including the CEO/COO Boot Camp and the evolution of that program into today’s Leadership Academy. At a time of unprecedented disruption and turnover across the system, Wyncote’s support ensured that public media leaders were equipped with the tools, confidence, and peer networks needed to lead through complexity and change.
Through its strategic commitment to leadership development and organizational capacity, Wyncote Foundation has played a central role in building a national pipeline of resilient, values-driven leaders. Its support has enabled PMWL to expand access beyond small cohorts, integrate mentoring and learning technology, and design scalable training that reaches professionals at every stage of their careers — from those in the trenches today to the executives of tomorrow. With Wyncote’s partnership, PMWL’s Leadership Academy is cultivating the next generation of leaders who will sustain public media’s mission, strengthen its institutions, and shape its future.
CARS: Driving Leadership and Equity in Public Media
CARS (Charitable Adult Rides & Services) is a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Since the very beginning, CARS has been a foundational partner with PMWL, helping to shape and sustain public media’s most trusted leadership programs. Through its visionary support of initiatives like the CEO/COO Boot Camp and Brave Talk, CARS made strategic investments in PMWL's programs to help to build a national leadership pipeline, advance women into executive roles, and strengthen a more representative, values-driven leadership ecosystem for public media.
As a strategic partner, CARS continues to bring not only resources but expertise and a commitment to equity and inclusion, ensuring that public media leaders are equipped to navigate complex challenges, protect its mission, and innovate for the future. With its renewed support for PMWL’s Leadership Academy, CARS will power interactive workshops, mentorship, and professional development—cultivating the next generation of leaders who will connect, inspire, and make public media unstoppable.