I was sharing with one of my mentors today that increasingly, I am aware that what I do and who I am indivisible - a head/heart thing with like-minded individuals and organizations, enabling my efforts toward real belonging and real inclusivity. I am thrilled that so many people and organizations – get it!
I started down this path in 1999 as a personal quest for a feeling of belonging. I discovered amazing leaders along my journey and later awakened to the realization that Leadership, Engagement and Diversity/Inclusivity (LEaD) worked in tandem. That it is about how we lead, who we select as leaders and how we engage each other in building community… that sense of belonging …of inclusivity.
It is my hope that the heightened sense of awareness that is so rapidly evolving across communities will be accompanied by a self-correcting mechanism, so that the allure of feeling that building inclusive communities rests with any single organization or any single leader is but fleeting ...because if we take that path, we risk fostering the opposite – exclusivity.
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