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Bonus Episode: High Tech High Unboxed- Improvement as a tool for our collective liberation, with Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford
Unleashing Social Change Podcast has a featured episode for you this week!
High Tech High Unboxed, hosted by Alec Patton. In this Episode, Stacey interviews Brandi. Stacey Caillier talks to Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford about what Improvement Science looks like when equity and liberation are embedded in the PROCESS, not just the hoped-for result. This interview is rooted in two things, how improvement science can be a tool for our collective liberation and what we do in the meantime before that liberation comes about. Hope you enjoy this week's Bonus episode.
Show Resources:
HTHunboxed Podcast: https://hthunboxed.org/podcast-home/ (https://hthunboxed.org/podcast-home/)
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8 Jun 2022
Unpacking Mentorship; Humility, Authenticity, and Curiosity.
Nicki Roth and I met back in 2003 working on the 100,000 homes campaign. She is currently heading the executive leadership coaching offered to all MBA students at MIT Sloan School of Management. She has published two books on leadership and is the co-founder of The Messy Truth Leadership. I am honored and SO grateful that Nicki listened to the entirety of Season Four and brought her wisdom and expertise to this debrief.
Nicki is unafraid to call a spade a spade, or an asshole, and for that I love her. Unapologetic in her mission to develop leaders that are able to lift and progress teams rather than exhaust them with tone deaf egos, Nicki has decades of experience working in leader development and has her pulse on what leaders across sectors need.
In this episode we unpack the magnitude of the season. We discuss the threads of leadership lessons we saw woven throughout decades of service and the most prominent characteristics of authentic leadership.
To sit down in conversation with my old friend was a treat. Enjoy the last episode and then start all over again.
Show Notes:
The difference seeing leadership development as a profit generator versus a necessity.
There is more clarity of purpose in mission driven organizations.
Commonalities between nonprofit, military, and corporate leaders.
The journey from being externally motivated to developing intrinsic self worth.
The opposite of humble leadership is “I’m in charge”
The nuance of navigating ego as a non-dominant group leader.
How ego driven leadership limits careers and exhausts staff.
Never underestimate how honored a leader will be if they are asked to be a mentor.
People in non-dominant groups must have internal mentors to advocate for them, to help them navigate systems, see them, hear them, experience them, and help develop their talents.
Leadership isn’t about the leader, it's about the group.
Show Resources
Nicki’s Projects
The Messy Truth Leadership
Sloan's approach to leadership
Private audio coaching
Nicki’s Books
The Messy Truth About Leading People
Beyond Passion: From Nonprofit Expert to Organizational Leader
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24 May 2022
56: Sharon Kanis: A Profile in Interconnectedness of Communion
My last mentor of the season is one who has known me since before I was born, my Aunt and Godmother, Sharon Kanis of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
Taking her vows at the age of 19, Sharon has since gotten a degree in chemistry, a masters in applying Jungian theory to biblical archetypes, and a PhD in how people experience their spirituality in their bodies. When asked if I could introduce her as Doctor Sharon Kanis SSND she scoffed and said the phd was just a thing she did a while ago.
Sharon is a truth teller and willing to question her own assumptions with enduring humility. She has traveled the world to pay witness and be of service. An educator through her decades of service, she brings people and their shared experiences together in community. Sharon has rooted her service in the interconnectedness of the web of life and is unwavering from the oneness of the universe.
In this episode, you’ll hear that the thing Sharon attributes her progress to is also the biggest obstacle she’s faced as a leader - mutual accountability; showing up, consistently, willing to meet someone where they’re at, to get the work done. And although sometimes inconvenient, it is necessary and rooted in justice.
Show Notes:
The lesson I taught her at three years old.
The difference between community and communion.
Theology isn’t about answers, it's about questions.
Our identities are not reasons for division but markers for community.
How to stay in communication with people when egos inflate the room.
Consensus is not always efficient but it is necessary.
The philosophy of mutual availability.
The web of life and what it means to be interconnected.
Making time for contemplative practice.
What happens to one of us happens to all of us.
Weaving together common experiences as a mode of operation.
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