You’ve read all the latest anti-racism books, attended all the trainings and pledged to make change in your organization.  And yet, despite your best efforts, the culture of your organization hasn’t shifted. 

Here’s the underlying truth, most management and leadership “best practices” reinforce white supremacy culture in our organizations. These practices sabotage even the best equity plans because they were designed to uphold systems of oppression.  Mainstream versions of “effective” management practices have taught us that leadership is all about power, domination and control. And yet, many leaders, especially those of us who have done equity work, can feel that something is off.  You know there’s a better way to lead but can’t quite figure out what that better way is.

Leading for Liberation is a 6-month learning journey and community for organizational leaders who are ready to transform their institutions into fertile spaces for freedom while also achieving their mission and meeting their bottom line.  

Based on a Black queer feminist analysis of power and oppression, Leading for Liberation will teach you how to decolonize your leadership practice.  With a mix of practical skill-building, resource-sharing, and self-reflection, you’ll learn how to change your organization by changing how you lead. 

You’ll be part of a cohort that explores new ways of leading that ripple throughout your organization and community, to set the stage for the new multiracial democracy that we all deserve. 

You don’t have to do this alone.

You’re not the only leader who is overwhelmed by racial equity work.  Especially if your heart is in the right place, it’s easy to get lost in the enormity of effort needed to undo over 400 years of oppression while trying to make payroll and fill out grant reports. Combine that overwhelm with the pressure to create equitable workplaces at the pace of social media, many leaders are exhausted, frustrated, and losing faith in their ability to make change.

Leading for Liberation is a compassionate community where you can share your struggles with other leaders and build connections with social justice-minded visionaries who, like you, are fumbling toward freedom. 

Release perfection and embrace progress in a community dedicated to love, political education, and intellectual rigor.

In Leading for Liberation, we are imagining and co-creating a new leadership practice that is not based on control or charisma but is grounded in our visions for a healed society that exists beyond oppression. Together, we’ll explore what leadership looks like in a truly liberated world.