The LELI curriculum is the engine of the framework — a structured course of preparation that refines lived experience into living expertise. Here's what consultants learn, how it's taught, and how it adapts to your county.
The curriculum isn't a generic civics course. It's constructed from the county's own public resources — adopted budgets, organizational charts, board and commission agendas, published strategic plans, department presentations. Consultants prepare on the actual documents and structures they'll be advising on.
Consultants arrive with deep knowledge; the curriculum is built to organize and extend it, not talk past it. Sessions are discussion-driven and grounded in what consultants have lived — every structure studied is one someone in the room has navigated.
Every domain pairs learning with doing: reading a real plan, interpreting real performance data, drafting real findings. By deployment, nothing is happening for the first time.
County staff and system partners participate throughout — presenting how their departments work, joining discussions, building the working relationships Phase Two depends on.
The map of how the county actually works.
The machinery behind the services, from the other side of the desk.
Translation in both directions: policy into plain terms, expertise into policy terms.
The professional practice of lived experience consulting.
Scale for the analysis, judgment stays human.
Consultants move through the curriculum as a cohort — a community of experts learning alongside each other, comparing what each has navigated, and building the peer network their consulting practice will draw on.
Sessions combine structured learning, guest presentations from county staff and system partners, and applied assignments tied to the county's live documents and processes. Wraparound support — transportation, technology, scheduling — is built in so the full cohort can participate fully.
The curriculum runs months one through four. By its close, consultants have read the county's actual plans, interpreted its actual data, drafted findings in the formats its departments use, and met the staff and partners they'll be working with.
Deployment isn't a leap — it's a handoff. Phase Two advisory work begins with relationships in place, fluency established, and expertise ready to deploy.
The five domains are constant. Everything inside them is built for the implementing county:
Curriculum development is part of every LELI implementation — scoped during the design phase.
For counties: see what the curriculum would look like built on your county's structures. For consultants: no policy background required — this is where it gets built.