Conscious Leadership

Join us to talk strategies for navigating the strange and crazy times we live in. It’s beneficial to be a conscious leader right now, for you and for others.

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Join Lesley and Cord for a short conversation about changing the name of Diversity Differently to Conscious Leadership. Conscious choice through metacognition is a central part of the leadership education that they provide. The new name isn't just about what they do differently, but rather a central practice of what it takes to lead change.

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Join us for a deep dive into the concept of human value, what it is to feel worthy, and how best to articulate our right to belong with our friend and scholar Maurice Wallace, author of King’s Vibrato. This conversation is perfect for reflecting on an MLK Day when the world feels upside down. What is it to look into our own lives and feel a deep knowing of our right to belong? As Maurice states: “When belonging is a foregone conclusion, then you don’t have questions of deservedness.”

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Join Cord and Lesley for a conversation with documentary filmmaker Sheila Marshall. Sheila discusses the power of storytelling through film, specifically what results when we suspend judgment to truly examine another person’s perspective. She talks about her films Right Between Your Ears and After the Flood: The Church, Slavery, and Reconciliation. Both films offer us lessons in guiding people away from the discomfort of cognitive dissonance, exploring what it means to successfully forgive and to reconnect in new ways.

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Join Cord and Lesley in a conversation about analyzing stories. They’ll discuss how stories help us heal—and how stories can also become limiting if we hang on to them for too long. Is it possible to choose your own adventure instead?

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Lesley and Cord are back for season 2, this time focusing on stories. The stories we tell ourselves have power. Even something as simple as a story about your morning coffee is powerful. Why? What can or should you do about this? Join us in a fun and insightful conversation about the process of “storifying” — how noticing your own act of story creation gives you power to change things for the better.

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Join Lesley as she walks and chats with friend and colleague Burgandy Holiday, LCSW. They talk about what it is to show up fully and how shame might prevent us from doing so. Burgandy is a therapist and equity consultant who encourages identity- and faith-based reconciliation through healing. She discusses what it is to support people in all their methods of healing, including unexpected or taboo ones, like choosing not to have relationships with certain people in our lives.

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Join Robyn and Lesley in sunny (and windy) south Philadelphia for a conversation about how saying no can creative positive results. They discuss what it takes to identify and set boundaries from a place of non-activation and how we can trust that things will work out, even and especially when we let go of the idea it’s our responsibility to fix them.

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Join Robyn and Lesley for a chat about progress and flow. We talk about how much people tend to plan for the future by assuming what progress looks like. The truth is that progress is bumpy and unpredictable. Forcing what we think it should be can actually slow it down. Learning to be with emotion and developing our capacity to identify what we can and can’t control are useful skills. These can also help us reduce fear in a time of chaotic change.

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Join Sagely co-owners Lesley Curtis and Cord Whitaker in a conversation about balance and focus. Cord shares about his recent experience of vertigo. Noticing so intently what we are focused on helps us reconsider what’s possible. They conclude that when it’s impossible to do anything but accept imbalance, we often find new forms of stability.

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