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Connect 
to your courageous leadership.

As a social change leader, are you yearning to step fully into your power?

In the face of complex and daunting obstacles, leaders need more than a box of tools. We need a way of operating that is guided by our core values, connects us with our inner strengths, and builds momentum that drives us towards our vision for a just and affirming world.

I believe we need a system of leadership to guide us as we courageously navigate through treacherous territory. I’ve spent the last decade creating this kind of system that can be applied to any situation we face. After testing it out with hundreds of leaders across the country, I wrote this book as an offering of support for leaders like you who are out there on the front lines day and day out giving their heart and unwavering commitment to making change for our communities.

Choosing to Lead Against the Current: The Courageous Operating System for Changemakers. Empowering leaders to transform the world.

Choosing to Lead Against the Current

The Courageous Operating System for Changemakers

Heart-centered tools for social change leaders to build their well of courage, harness momentum, and power up their leadership

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This is the blueprint we need to lead with audacity, transform oppression into power, and ignite a future rooted in collective liberation.

Lateefah Simon, US Congress member and MacArthur Genius Fellow

Shen masterfully weaves wisdom from her decades of experience as a social change leader with inspiring stories and actionable practices, creating a must-read resource for those committed to leading with purpose.

Dimple Abichandani, Philanthropic Advisor and Author of A New Era of Philanthropy

This book encourages us to discover and honor the unique gifts we each bring to our leadership, as we make the change we so urgently need in this moment. This book is for any leader working to envision a better world.

Heather McGhee, New York Times bestselling author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Eveline Shen
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Hi, I’m Eveline Shen.

As a leader for over two decades, I learned a lot of important lessons the hard way.

I want to help make things easier for other leaders.

I work primarily with women and gender expansive leaders of color to fuel their superpowers and become the vibrant, authentic, and bold leaders they are meant to be, using the Courageous Operating System.

Because in these dangerous political times, connecting to your courage in a systematic way is the most effective means of stepping into your power and amplifying your leadership.

Learn More About My Work with Leaders

Ev has been a lifeline for me — to able to call her up and say ‘I’m struggling.’ She is a gracious, amazing, powerful, grounded, experienced, humble, compassionate leader who holds a vision of what we can all become with the ability to lay the foundational stones to help us get there. She brings that calming fierceness to everything that is reproductive justice, women, families LGBTQA … a wholeness of community.

Corrine Sanchez, Executive Director, Tewa Women United

Ev is a mentor, leader, educator, movement builder, and somebody who negotiates movement spaces with grace and kindness. I’m proud to have been under her tutelage in my formative years.

Shanelle Mathews, Communications Director, Movement for Black Lives

Our movement is undeniably stronger because of Ev’s visionary leadership and steadfast support for all of us.

WENDY CHUN-HOON, President of CLASP, the Center for Law and Social Policy