Description: One of the deepest challenges we hear from Women Identified POC leaders centers around the disappointment and resistance they face from other staff of color for not being able to instantly transform oppressive organizational culture. On the staff end, we hear frustration over what they see as Women Identified POC leaders adopting oppressive behaviors as soon as they assume positional power or become ‘THE MAN’.  In this session, staff and organizational leaders have the opportunity to think interdependently and strategically about how to continue transforming oppressive organizational structures together as they move through positions of power.  (The structure of this exercise is based on the generational leadership workshop featured in the book Working Across Generations by Kunreuther, Kim, and Rodriguez.)

See companion session for organizational leaders and EDs here.

Purpose: To create space for staff and organizational leaders to think interdependently and strategically about how to continue transforming oppressive organizational structures together as they move through positions of power.  

Outcomes:

• Participants have a fuller understanding of their positional power and role in transforming oppressive organizational structures 

• Participants have a more nuanced understanding of the organizational challenges facing their colleagues.

• Participants see the work of transforming oppressive organizational structures as shared work

Process: minimum 2 hours over 2 parts

• Part 1: Intro and Reflection - Who is “the man”?!

• Part 2: Reflecting on Our Organization Together

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