Scientists, engineers, and community leaders with differing backgrounds and experiences can bring a variety of ideas and perspectives to focus on resilience. Collaboration should help scientists, engineers, managers, executives, staff, and citizen scientists to combine forces to improve coastal resilience. The practice of collaboration involves sharing information, resources, and responsibility. Collaborative leaders exploit the diversity of opinions and ideas among teammates to increase the likelihood of improving coastal resilience. The results are more engaged team and community where stakeholders feel trusted and are more likely to take ownership of the approaches. Through collaborative leadership, scientists, engineers, and community members create an inclusive environment that energizes resilience projects by releasing creativity. It includes the idea of co-design, which further helps to integrate differing experiences, values, and insights.