All of a sudden - overnight, in an instant, day by day, we changed. The pandemic hit and we have mobilized. We are shifting some rules of the game, cutting s...

#purposefirst Purpose is not about your passion. Purpose is about how you are in relationship to the collective, your role in the bigger picture. It is the ...

I was the keynote speaker at the Agora Theatre for the Cleveland Neighborhood Progress. This keynote asked us to consider the ways in which we hold back prog...

Taking action to be more inclusive, just, and to create belonging does not require permission (or for that matter forgiveness, sorry Grace Hopper). In my coa...

Let's explore one of the most challenging parts of organizational change towards the active practice of racial equity. Resistors. There are different ways pe...

"We are considering if we want to bring racial equity into our strategic plan." "We have created a committee to explore if equity should be part our work." "...

Speed. Silence. Shame. White supremacy is designed to thrive and flourish on speed, silence, and shame. An essential part of racial equity work to understand...

We need more healers, fewer “leaders” in our racial equity, justice, and belonging work. We need more people willing to heal disease of “standard operating p...

There are lots of tired folks out there. Many people of colors are exhausted by the ongoing racism, bias, diminishment and marginalization of their voice, id...

The more deeply I engage in the work of advancing racial equity, the more often I see the myriad of ways the real work is deflected, lost in the noise, and h...

During a client conversation about outcomes and deliverables for organizational racial equity work, we had generated quite a list of "change opportunities." ...

Here is a short excerpt from a recent keynote I gave at the end of 2018. With community leaders from around the US, we explored how we move racial equity in...

My Dad often asked me as I grew up: are you helping people? Among his many amazing sayings that have a lasting impact on me, this one served both a the root...

Saathi has been in several years of partnerships and work to design a practice that empowers residents build solutions in new ways. It has been a beautiful o...

I'm in Seattle with the Environmental Grantmakers Association to coach philanthropic leaders on how to advance racial equity. Our session is called From Prin...