Initiate Change
Jean Latting
The most successful people in any field know how to seek the expertise of other successful people in order to improve themselves and their performance.
Jean Latting
Dr. Melissa Ochoa has a few things to say about the word Latinx; mainly, she doesn’t like it. For one thing, it doesn’t work in Spanish. Hear what she proposes instead.
Jean Latting
Unsung heroes are all around us. Many were women; in many cases, their work was known but men took the credit.
Jean Latting
Journalist Talia Lavin began a social experiment aimed at understanding and exposing the White nationalist movement.
Jean Latting
What is the culture – police and American – that allows this to continue? What are the obstacles? What can we as individuals do about it?
Jean Latting
When disaster inevitably strikes, what is your response? Wait for someone to fix it, dwell on the unfairness of it all? What do you need to move ahead?
Jean Latting
It’s the new year, and we all have good intentions. What about our determination to stop procrastinating now?
Jean Latting
What if you had no inner critic telling you you’re just not good enough? What if you learned to silence your inner critic? What could you accomplish?
Jean Latting
Dina Gilio-Whitaker answers what would be lost if Indigenous people were completely assimilated into White society and if they would even be accepted?
Jean Latting
As initiators of change, the ICTJ works with victims and survivors of massive human rights violations to hold those responsible to account.
Carole Marmell
Our online membership program, Pathfinders: Leadership for social and racial justice, uses the blog posts for members to read, reflect, and discuss.
Jean Latting
The California Reparations Task Force is seeking reparations to overcome the legacy of privileged whiteness and racism in this country.
Leading Consciously
We are living in turbulent times. What to do? How to cope? How are each of us in Leading Consciously coping?
Carole Marmell
This post explores how "not changing much" in the past three years proved that I did, indeed, take some huge risks.
Jean Latting
This discussion covers the roots of racism, who suffers from it, and what can be done about it. Spoiler: it’s not just people of color.
Jean Latting
Stephen B. Karpman’s drama triangle represents a pattern of dysfunctional relationships. It can exist in domestic situations and in the workplace too.
Jean Latting
Jean asks André Harris about his sickle cell, his experience with sexual assault, and his ability to thrive where others might have given up.
Francine Derby
Are you consumed by work? And how can you produce excellence without burning out? Francine Derby has a lot to say about it.
Jean Latting
John Fisher depicts the emotional roller coaster we ride during a change. Jean uses the graphic to illustrate her journey toward realizing a vision.
Jean Latting
Think about a time when you were marginalized by a superior…or worse, when you did the marginalizing. You’re a good person. What can you do to change?
Nonjabulo Mlangeni
What did it take to make ordinary Germans into killers? Were there unusual circumstances, or could this still happen?
Jean Latting
The R-word can set nerves on fire. How do we talk about racism without engaging others' emotions and shutting down their ability to think clearly?
Jean Latting
Brandon discusses stereotyping, ostracism, effemiphobia -phenomenon of people not wanting to be associated with the negative parts of themselves & BLM.
Jean Latting
Jean talks about relative advantages of implementing policy changes through an incremental approach versus a confrontational, direct action strategy.
Jean Latting
When self-doubt threatens our purpose and we feel incapable of overcoming, what can we do about it? Jean’s story is of overcoming self-sabotage.
Peter Michaelson
Harnessing our internal strength in battle, we will combat American authoritarianism. Peter posits you cannot fight power without finding your own.
Jean Latting
Angela Blanchard built a solid foundation for BakerRipley by not just doing food but building platforms that make it possible to do good.
Jean Latting
Well-meaning people adopt ideals of justice - including punitive and restorative. How do we live those ideals?
Jean Latting
A list of resources to start you on the road to knowledge and understanding about anti-Black racism.
Jean Latting
Charles speaks about exploring generational identity and professional lives of Black women. No one has heard any of their stories.
Jean Latting
States around the country are banning lessons on systemic racism and critical race theory. Many on both sides having no real idea of what it means.
Jean Latting
From a sense of “otherness” as an Indian in London, Sunita Sehmi developed a coaching practice on belonging as part of people’s needs in the workplace
Jean Latting
How do we find the courage? Would we have had the courage to provide Frederick Douglass with false papers, risking our lives to save his?
Jean Latting
In these perilous times, we all are familiar with anxiety. As an emotion, it’s universal. How can we tame this anxiety and build resilience?
Jean Latting
A community in Fourth Ward, Freedmen’s Town, became the community for former slaves from all over that part of Texas.
Jean Latting
Change is hard. But to create change, one first has to see the structure that keeps the current system in place.
Jean Latting
Why do people bully each other? Wendy Harpur, a HR professional, has written on LinkedIn about workplace bullying and talks about her own experience.
Jean Latting
In this guest blog post, Jessica Kanzler shares how in her experience with higher education, unconscious bias is more subtle than overt.
Jean Latting
Today’s blog post speaks to three strategies you can use to stick to the changes you want to make.
Jean Latting
Cindy Wigglesworth talks about how she developed a skills assessment for spiritual intelligence. Also her journey in personal growth and development.
Jean Latting
Jean describes the private troubles that resulted from the raging storm and the implications this has for public issues that we need to consider.
Jessica Kanzler
Some signs make you look like an empathetic person. Find out more from leading Consciously what happens when you do and don't show empathy.
Jean Latting
What did Martin Luther King stand for? Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. discusses the watering down of his message to make it more palatable to people in power.
Jean Latting
Learn how Cherry Steinwender went from picking cotton and cleaning houses to co-founding the Center for the Healing of Racism.
Jean Latting
Now it’s time to look ahead. I have five items on my wish list for social justice next year, for all of us. See if you can add some of your own.
Jean Latting
Our online racial justice training program is open. Read on to find out more about Pathfinders: Leadership for Racial and Social Justice.
Jean Latting
In this post, I’ll share my thoughts on how to bridge the divide with the 47% who voted for Trump.