Does Your Definition of Leadership Exclude Women of Color? with Dr. Marlette Jackson

Break Concrete: Black Women At Work

Far too often, we operate in workplaces where women of color leaders are lacking. However, that’s not because women of color lack leadership skills. Nor is it because of a lack of interest. Break Concrete is kicking off Season 4 with Dr. Marlette Jackson, a scholar, diversity and inclusion consultant, and co-author of the Harvard Business Review article, Does Your Definition of Leadership Exclude Women of Color? Dr. Jackson interrogates common leadership values and norms and how they exclude women of color. We talk about how organizations can expand their definition of leadership and assign value to qualities often overlooked or criticized when held by women of color.

Find links and show notes at https://breakconcrete.com/bc045.

Topics Covered:

• Barriers women of color face in career advancement
• Understanding invisible labor and how it impacts women’s careers
• Common leadership values and why companies should reexamine attributes of leadership they value
• Who is left out of common definitions of leadership
• Expanding our definition of leadership
• Defining cultural capital, resistance capital, and navigational capital
• Reimagining the workplace through a communal vs. individualistic lens
• Challenging problematic norms around leadership and getting buy in
• Questions organizations should ask when seeking leaders in the workplace
• Why we should look for unconventional leadership skills when hiring
• Problems with seeking company “fit”
• How to measure success when diversifying leaders in the workplace
• Retaining diverse leaders in the workplace

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