#78: Tilling the Soil for Equity Leadership

Are you taking some of the important steps needed to support diversity, equity and inclusion goals in your organization?  Do you review & actively live into your organizational mission, vision and values? Are you leading by example and doing your own deep work to effectively lead and build a culture of equity?  Today, our guest is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant Felecia Boone. Felecia shares poignant stories from her upbringing and describes how those shaped the work she does today. In our conversation we:

• Hear how crucial it is to have a mission statement and values that are used within an organization as living documents

• Learn about the importance of social change leaders doing their own self care when engaged in anti-racism work

• Understand how social change leaders need to learn the art of “turning up the heat, but not too hot” when supporting equitable practices

• Learn about the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and other assessments that will support 

• Understand the importance of getting out of our heads and getting into our hearts while making embodied anti-racist practices a habit

• Discuss the importance of recognizing when individuals are hitting the wall and need a bit of space / support

• Hear about the importance of leveraging the skills, expertise and assets within your organization to best [ be better allies, co-conspirators and activists] build diversity, equity and inclusion practices

• Hear about the importance of leveraging the skills, expertise and assets within your organization so everyone can be better allies, co-conspirators and activists while build diversity, equity and inclusion practices

More about Felecia:

Felecia A. Boone is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant in local government, where she is also the administrator of a Diversity Leadership Mentoring Program. Outside of work, she serves as vice-president of the Minneapolis Area Synod in the ELCA; is chair of the nonprofit Crossroads Community Organization board; is a member of the Board of Regents at Wartburg College; serves on the board of several other equity-focused community organizations; and leads and collaborates on a range of committees at her home church, Calvary Lutheran, always through a racial equity lens. Felecia is also a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).

To connect further with Felecia:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/feleciaboone/

https://www.facebook.com/felecia.boone