by drjeanneporterking | Sep 16, 2020 | Inclusive Leadership, Women's Leadership
If you focus on the barriers—and they are everywhere—you’ll get overwhelmed and even use them as excuses for not moving toward your goal. Instead focus on your goal, look at where you are and where you want to go and break that down into manageable goals. Make that...
by Kiandria | Aug 7, 2020 | Inclusive Leadership, Women's Leadership
Editor’s note: This week I am happy to bring my sister Kristen into our series! She recently read a book called The Memo that shares tips on navigating the corporate culture as a Black woman. **** When I graduated college in 2015, nobody told me I...
by drjeanneporterking | Jun 15, 2020 | Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Race, Transformation
This has been a tough season for Black people for sure, and it is a moment of reckoning for the nation, even our world. Sustained mass protests calling for reform or radical reshaping of racist structures have caught the nation’s attention. The clarion call...
by drjeanneporterking | Feb 27, 2020 | Inclusive Leadership, Inspiration
For Black History Month, I read Howard Thurman’s autobiography, With Head and Heart. Thurman was a prolific author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader. For instance, his book, Jesus and the Disinherited has...
by drjeanneporterking | Oct 23, 2019 | Church Leadership, Faith At Work, Inclusive Leadership, Influence, Purpose, Religion & Spirituality, Women's Leadership
Recently I had the great pleasure of speaking at two leadership conferences that got me to thinking about my own leadership as a calling. As many of you know, I have been writing on the topic of women’s leadership since my first book, Leading Ladies, was...
by drjeanneporterking | Nov 17, 2016 | Brain, Implicit Bias, Inclusive Leadership, Race
Note: This is Part 1 of a Two-part Post. A coworker is silently angry with a colleague for voting against his candidate. An upper middle class woman emotionally volleys back and forth with her neighbor on their different votes in this past election. On Sunday,...
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