
We get it – it can be tough out there.
Much is asked of your library right now: Serve wide-ranging, often stressed, and increasingly vulnerable communities with creativity, care, and skill. Do so with limited capacity in the midst of intense public and stakeholder scrutiny.
In this complicated moment, your library doesn’t have to turn away from what’s challenging, controversial, or sensitive. This is the time to lean in.
Embolden by Design (ExD) helps your staff gain skills and confidence to deliver programs emboldened.

WHAT IS ExD?
ExD is a holistic training experience to help your library staff deliver bold programs that address a deeply fragmented, polarized society. In one of the last true public spaces where all are welcome, library staff play an essential role in bringing people together to meet this moment.
Through compassionate structure and support, ExD builds confidence and skills so your staff feel safe, prepared, and excited to take smart programming risks, even as they navigate the daily demands of serving the community.
ExD isn’t about teaching staff what they already know how to do. It’s about strengthening the mindset, capacity, and practice of boldness in complex times.
Library teams worldwide are looking to deliver bold, community-centered programming with confidence. Embolden by Design is exactly the style of training we need to move from ambition to action.
Marie Østergård
Library Director, Aarhus Public Libraries
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