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Ideas, inspiration, and insights on today’s most pressing topics.
Exploring the KOAN method: A Bolder Vision
Today’s challenges require solutions that our current systems and organizations are not designed to produce repeatedly or reliably. Creating conditions where purpose-driven, authentic leaders can thrive requires us to cultivate a new approach — one that is both possible and within reach.
KOAN Conversations: A Growing Network of Breakthrough Leaders
Join a community of leaders ready to connect, innovate, and inspire through monthly explorations of the concepts behind the KOAN method, a new way of leading and organizing that invites us to use diversity and difference as fuel for innovation.
Embracing Empathy to HEAL
Organizations, systems, and communities have legacies that can keep us mired in old patterns. The HEAL mantra helps us explore the past with curiosity and care so that we can build a better tomorrow.
🎥 Color blind or color brave – Mellody Hobson
🎥 The geography of inequality – Kevin Ehrman-Solberg
🎥 The problem with race-based medicine – Dorothy Roberts
🎥 How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time – Baratunde Thurston
📰 How to Be Less Stupid About Race – Crystal Marie Fleming
📰 The Urgency of Intersectionality Ted Talk – Kimberlé Crenshaw
📰 “The Unbearable Grief of Black Mothers” – A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez
📰 “George Floyd’s Mother was not there but he used her as a Sacred Invocation” – Lonnae O’Neal
📰 How to Be a Good American – Dana Brownlee
📰 CNN’s Omar Jimenez Could Have Been Me — Or Any of My Black Colleagues – Jada Gomez
📰 What We Should Have Learned From the L.A. Riots – Erik Parker
📰 How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change – Barack Obama
📰 Maintaining Professionalism in the Age of Black Death Is… A Lot – Shenequa Golding
📰 How White Women Can Use Their Privilege to End Racism – Tikia K. Hamilton, PhD
📰 My Dad Warned Me About the Myth of Racial Progress — He Was Right – Drew Costley
📰 We Won’t Let This Moment Be a Trend – Vanessa K. De Luca
📰 Office Allies Can’t Undo Yet Another Black Murder – The Only Black Guy In the Office
📰 There’s No Such Thing as a Pretty Protest – Tirhakah Love
📚 Me & White Supremacy – Layla Saad
📚 How to Be An Anti-Racist – Ibram X. Kendi
📚 So You Want to Talk About Race? – Ijeoma Oluo
📚 I’m Still Here – Austin Channing Brown
📚 Women, Race & Class – Angela Davis
📚 White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo
📚 Inner Work of Racial Justice – Rhonda Magee
📚 Racial Justice and Antiracism Book List – Des Moines Public Library
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A KOAN Case Study: B Corp Community Leads the Way Toward Better Business
As an organization of individuals who seek to contribute to a better future, Integrated Work is proud to be part of the B Corp community.
Building Resilient Businesses Through Empathy
Integrated Work CEO Jennifer Lyn Simpson and workplace innovator Sophie Wade explore how a human-centered approach based in empathy can guide leaders to build more resilient businesses.