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This post is part of our In Relationship series, where we’re diving into what it means to truly be in relationship with others and why we make it our priority. The goal of creating diverse workplaces that are equitable and inclusive is not to make everyone happy all...
Welcome to our In Relationship blog series. We’ve recently written about how we prioritize relationship-building over productivity. In this series, we’re doing a deep dive into what it actually means to be in relationship with others. How do you know when it’s...
Whatever the goals of your organization, or yourself as an individual, one goal seems to have overshadowed the rest: productivity. When we reward and idolize productivity, the norm for work becomes busyness, stress, overwhelm, suffering, burnout, performing our value...
In our Reframing Series, we examine commonplaces that, upon closer look, reveal a toxic belief or harmful behavior. Read more from our Reframing Series: Reframing Boundaries; Reframing Burnout, Reframing Nice, Reframing Uncertainty. We Can’t Do It All At...
What started out as a typical newsletter call turned into something else this week. We were all set up on a group video call to create the next newsletter when the conversation took an abrupt turn. Our topic was values, something we talk about a lot. MJ wondered aloud...
Our company motto isn’t just something we help clients with. Our own team at Leverage to Lead has experienced (and continues to experience) moments when something previously hidden, often in service of upholding white supremacy culture, is made visible to us for the...
“If you can’t hear me, you can’t see me.” -Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement Our nation is struggling with, and sometimes feels stalled by, disparate beliefs—conflicting worldviews and beliefs about what facts or truths are valid. We all carry different...
A year ago, we published a newsletter titled Breaking the Rules of DEI where we exposed some of the toxic, unspoken “rules” of DEI. Contradictory, self-canceling, and paralyzing, such “rules” are really meant to undermine any real progress toward increasing diversity...
We’ve been writing a lot about seeing each other’s humanity —the full, unique individual made up of many identity markers and experiences. In Bobbie Harro’s Cycle of Liberation, this is part of the Waking Up and Getting Ready stages. You can see from Harro’s graphic...
When we see aspects of white supremacy culture arise during DEI work (perfectionism; assimilation; presumption of comfort, safety, and power; individualism), it’s rarely in the form of overt bigotry or discrimination. We’ve all been socialized with white supremacy...