Bring the Institute for Secular Leadership’s full 8-week leadership program directly to your organization through a private cohort designed specifically for your leadership team.
Instead of sending a single employee to training, this format allows your entire leadership team to learn together, develop shared leadership language, and immediately apply new tools and concepts within your organization.
Participants will engage in the same interactive curriculum used in the Institute’s public cohorts while working alongside their own colleagues to strengthen communication, collaboration, and leadership capacity.
Private Leadership Team Training is ideal for organizations that want to develop stronger leaders, build more effective teams, and create lasting leadership impact across their organization.
Each private cohort includes:
• The full 8-week Institute for Secular Leadership program
• Participation for up to 10 members of your leadership team
• Interactive discussions and practical leadership tools
• Opportunities to apply lessons directly to your organization
Foundations of Secular Leadership provides the structural backbone every secular organization needs. Through research-informed principles and practical tools, participants gain clarity around mission, behavior, meetings, delegation, and team systems.
Whether you are stepping into leadership or strengthening your current role, this course equips you to build healthy teams and sustainable organizations grounded in shared human values—not ideology.
Session 1: Leadership in Secular Organizations
Establishing a shared leadership framework grounded in human values and understanding the unique challenges of leading outside religious or ideological systems.
Session 2: Mission, Vision & Behavioral Alignment
Turning purpose into measurable behaviors and cultural clarity that strengthen accountability and organizational coherence.
Session 3: Meetings & Decision Architecture
Designing structured meeting and decision systems that improve transparency, participation, and effective action.
Session 4: Team Leadership & Delegation Systems
Building healthy team dynamics, strengthening ownership, and distributing responsibility for sustainable performance.
Courses 1–4
The Leadership Foundations series establishes a shared framework for ethical, effective leadership in secular organizations. Participants explore the psychology and philosophy of leadership, develop core team-based leadership skills, and build practical competencies for meetings, organizational culture, and responsible decision-making.
This series is designed for current and emerging leaders who want to lead with clarity, integrity, and confidence—grounded in evidence-informed practices and free from ideological or belief-based frameworks.
Work directly with Dr. Darrel Ray in a focused, private coaching session designed to help you strengthen your leadership, clarify your strategy, and navigate real-world challenges with confidence and integrity.
Whether you're building a secular organization, leading volunteers, managing conflict, or refining your public voice, this session provides direct, personalized insight from decades of leadership experience.
This 60-minute virtual private session is an opportunity to work directly with Dr. Darrel Ray to address your specific leadership questions and goals.
Refine your leadership vision
Navigate organizational challenges
Improve communication strategy
Strengthen volunteer engagement
Clarify boundaries and authority
Develop confidence as a public-facing leader
Strategize growth for secular initiatives
Each session is focused, practical, and tailored to your needs.
Current or emerging leaders
Board members
Nonprofit organizers
Volunteer coordinators
Advocates and community builders
Clear next steps
Strategic perspective
Actionable leadership insights
Increased confidence in decision-making
A focused plan for moving forward
Why are all the major religions consumed with sex? What makes sex so important whether Buddhism or Islam, Christianity or Mormonism? What is the impact of religion on human sexuality. This book explores this and more. It ventures into territory that has never been examined. You will be surprised at how much religion has influenced your sexuality, who you marry, the pleasure you get or don't get from sex and what you can do about it.
Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Dennett opened the door to a hard nosed look at religion in our society but no one seemed to be using their concepts to explain the psychology of religion and its practical effects on people. Dr. Darrel Ray, psychologist and lifelong student of religion stepped into this gap to discuss religious infection from the inside out. How does guilt play into religious infection? Why is sexual control so important to so many religions? What causes the anxiety and neuroticism around death and dying? How does religion inject itself into so many areas of life, culture and politics? Dr. Ray explores this and much more in his book, The God Virus: How religion infects our lives and culture. This second generation book takes the reader several steps beyond Dawkins, et al. into the realm of the personal and emotional mechanisms that affect anyone who lives in a culture steeped in religion. He uses examples that anyone can relate to and gives real world guidance in how to deal with and respond to people who are religious among our families, friends and coworkers.
The Performance Culture gives leaders a set of practical tools for building and sustaining an environment that support high performance teamwork. How to integrate organizational culture and teamwork is a key concept throughout the book. Chapters deal with leader behaviors, team disciplinary procedures, tips on how to intervene and develop teams and much more.
Plenty of books will tell you why self-directed teams are good for businesses and the people in them. But very few also show how to set teamwork into motion, day by day and year by year. If you're seeking that second-generation level of guidance - how-to, detailed, based on struggles and successes at organizations just like yours - look no further than Teaming Up. Dr. Darrel Ray has front-line experience in helping teams grow at manufacturing and service companies, government and social service agencies, Fortune 500 giants, and small firms. His approach has been proven to work in union and non-union environments, and the payoffs have been measurable: higher morale, better use of resources, and dramatic positive impact on bottomline profit.
Courses 1–4
The Leadership Foundations series establishes a shared framework for ethical, effective leadership in secular organizations. Participants explore the psychology and philosophy of leadership, develop core team-based leadership skills, and build practical competencies for meetings, organizational culture, and responsible decision-making.
This series is designed for current and emerging leaders who want to lead with clarity, integrity, and confidence—grounded in evidence-informed practices and free from ideological or belief-based frameworks.
Courses 5–8
The Leadership Intermediate series builds on the Foundations curriculum to deepen leaders’ capacity to navigate complexity, make sound ethical judgments, and lead effectively within dynamic organizations. Participants explore advanced topics in team leadership, organizational systems, strategic decision-making, and sustainable leadership practice.
This series is designed for leaders who already attend our Foundations series and want to refine their skills, strengthen organizational impact, and lead with confidence in real-world situations—grounded in evidence-informed approaches and free from ideological or belief-based frameworks.
Our next course begins April 30, 2026 at 7pm CST please take mind of your time zone when signing up for this course.
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