$2,500
Scholarship Seat
What your gift does
Funds one leader’s place in the 2027 Founding Cohort.
Founding Cohort 2027 · Salt Lake City
Do good better.
Utah has the heart. This is the room where its best leaders put it to work — together.
IHLab brings together leaders from across Utah’s nonprofit, civic, and business sectors to elevate their sights and each other — built by Dignity.Us, The Other Side Leadership Institute, and Utah Advocacy Coalition, three organizations that have spent years doing this work separately, now doing it in one room.
November 3, 2026 · Salt Lake City
Be in the room where it begins.
The founding conversation for IHLab happens over lunch on November 3. Come hear from the people behind it, meet the leaders who’ll be in the room, and see why this cohort is the one to be part of.
Featured speakers
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Keynote
Dr. Timothy Shriver
University of Utah Impact ScholarCo-Founder & CEO, Dignity.Us
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Keynote
Dr. Jody Olsen
Former Director, Peace CorpsUAC Advisory Board
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Featured speaker
Preston Cochrane
CEO, The Other Side VillageRepresenting The Other Side Leadership Institute
Limited seating
Seating is limited. The first leaders in the room will help shape what this becomes.
The cohort
Eight sessions at The Other Side Village. People who will come to know your work.
A lot of you got here on grit, mostly on your own. Growing from here usually means a stronger board and a team that knows what’s riding on the work, and that’s hard to build by yourself.
Biweekly sessions at The Other Side Village in Salt Lake City. A focused talk, then table work with facilitators trained by Dignity.Us, and leaders who take the time to understand your organization. Fifty seats. $2,000 if you register by January 15, $2,500 after. Cohort I launches in 2027.
What You Gain
- A clearer way through hard conversations. You’ll practice the Dignity Index so a tense board meeting, pushback from the community, or a team that isn’t on the same page doesn’t cost you the relationship.
- Accountability your team can actually sustain. TOSLI leads a session on radical accountability, grounded in lived experience at The Other Side Village.
- Your budget and your people behind the same goals. Spend money in ways that leave your organization stronger next year.
- Relationships with leaders who know your work. Fifty leaders, plus facilitators trained by Dignity.Us, who take the time to understand your organization and stay in your corner.
- A plan you can take home. Start mapping out your next three years with tools you can use right away.
- Somewhere to go next. After the cohort, you can bring a full partner program into your organization.
Partner with Cohort I
Put someone in the room.
Utah’s most committed frontline leaders often have the tightest budgets. A sponsored seat changes that — and sends someone back to their organization with more capacity to serve the people who need it.
Ways to give
$10,000
Cohort Partner
What your gift does
Underwrites a full peer table for leaders who need a sponsored seat, and includes an advisory seat during working sessions.
$25,000
Founding Partner
What your gift does
Helps shape Cohort I alongside Utah’s most consequential civic leaders.
Gifts are tax-deductible and go to a scholarship fund that opens the cohort to leaders who need it most.
Three organizations. One table.
Each has its own mission. Together they built something none could offer alone.
IHLab grew from a simple belief — that better systems start with how we see and treat people. Dignity.Us, The Other Side Leadership Institute, and Utah Advocacy Coalition have each spent years putting that belief to work. This is what it looks like when they do it together.
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Convener & Strategy Hub
Utah Advocacy CoalitionUAC
Utah Advocacy Coalition connects family-serving organizations across Utah’s care system to build nonpartisan, community-driven solutions that bridge policy, practice, and lived experience. In the cohort, Utah Advocacy Coalition shapes the arc of the eight sessions, brings the curriculum together, and invites guest presenters.
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Experiential Civic Leadership
The Other Side Leadership InstituteTOSLI
The Other Side Leadership Institute develops leaders through responsibility, accountability, and relationship, grounded in lived experience at The Other Side Village. In the cohort, The Other Side Leadership Institute leads the session on radical accountability.
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Communication & Cultural Frameworks
Dignity.Us
Dignity.Us gives people a practical way to understand what happens in hard conversations, and to choose dignity when disagreement gets difficult. In the cohort, Dignity.Us leads the opening session on dignity, and its facilitators, trained by Dignity.Us, lead the table work.
Each organization sees leadership from a different angle. In the cohort, you’ll get all three — and leave with a clearer sense of how they fit together in your own work.
Be first to know.
We’ll send news about the launch and let you know when Cohort I registration opens in December 2026.