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Inclusive Leadership

Aware Definition

Per Jennifer Brown's definition in How to be an inclusive leader: Your role in creating cultures of belonging where everyone can thrive (2022), Aware is defined as: 

In the Aware stage, you learn more about the concept of privilege and understand better that the playing field is not level for everyone. You educate yourself about your own identities and those of other people and how our identities shape the way we experience the world around us. As you learn more about different lived experiences, you develop empathy and are motivated to contribute to the change effort. (p. 10)

Aware: Practical Tools

Dallas Center for Mindfulness and Compassion. (2021). Programs & events.

Inclusive Leaders Group. (2023). Inclusive leadership - Self assessment.

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. (2021). Implicit bias toolkit

National Equity Project. (n.d.) Equity tools.

University of Southern California. (2020, November 5). Diversity toolkit: A guide to discussing identity, power and privilege.

Aware: Popular Media & Opinion

Coleman, P. T., & Chen-Carrel, A. (2023, October 30). How to keep diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives alive at work. Greater Good Science Center.

Grant, A. (2023). Hidden potential: The science of achieving greater things. Viking.

Morgan, C., & Portincaso, M. (2020, July 28). Why CEOs need to read poetry - yes, poetry - to lead in the post-COVID world. Fast Company. 

Pueblo, Y. (2018). Inward. Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Tennant, M. (2023). The power of empathy. Chronicle Books.

Mindfulness:

Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. (2022, October 5). Research: Self-compassion applied to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB)

Dallas Center for Mindfulness and Compassion. (2021). Resources.

Mindfulness. (2023, September 6). What are the most successful mindful leadership practices for promoting diversity and inclusion? LinkedIn.

Aware: Scholarly Resources

Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989(1), 139-167.

Fernandez, O., Lawrence, A., Shaquid Pirie, M., & Ring, G. (2023). Leveraging a campus equity walkthrough evaluation (CEWE) ePortfolio to assess first-year students’ equity-minded learning and campus belongingInternational Journal of ePortfolio, 13(1), 21-54.

Goldman Schuyler, K., Watson, L. W., & King, E. (2021). How generative mindfulness can contribute to inclusive workplaces. Humanistic Management Journal, 6(3), 451-478.

Kealoha, M. M. (2020). Chasing rainbows: Finding our interwoven narrative and voice through collaborative auto-ethnographic poetryInternational Journal of Human Rights Education, 4(1), 7.

Kite, M. E., Case, K. A., & Williams, W. R. (2021). Navigating difficult moments in teaching diversity and social justice. American Psychological Association.

Lawton-Misra, N., & Pretorius, T. (2021). Leading with heart: Academic leadership during the COVID-19 crisisSouth African Journal of Psychology, 51(2), 205-214.

Levey, J., & Levey, M. (2019). Mindful leadership for personal and organisational resilienceClinical Radiology, 74(10), 739-745.

Maldonado Franzen, R., & Benavides, M. T. (2023). From talk to action: An appreciative inquiry approach to diversity and inclusion work within a community of practiceJournal of College and Character24(2), 100-119.

Nakamura, Y. T., & Milner, J. (2023). Inclusive leadership via empathic communicationOrganizational Dynamics, 52(1), 100957.

Neff, K. D. (2023). Self-compassion: Theory, method, research, and interventionAnnual Review of Psychology74, 193-218.

Aware: Multimedia

RBC. (2020, January 22). That little voice [Video]. YouTube.

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