The Leadership Range

Neil talks about black men in white corporate spaces, the paradox they might often face, and the impact on black mens’ identities as they navigate what is often treacherous territory. With mixed messages and underlying racial biases in play, Neil offers a path for strategic leader development for black men as a safe, productive, privileged space to develop and thrive. He calls black men to take responsible action and make investments to get the outcomes they want.

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Neil talks at the intersection of wellbeing, personal leadership, and justice through the lens of relationships systems work. He uses the notion of “Disturbance as Ally” to lay out a way minorities can take a new perspective on race-based aggressions at work and use them to support wellbeing practices. Walk away with a new perspective and four tips on what you can do to survive and maybe thrive in what could be a hostile work environment in corporate America.

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Neil sits in a conversation with Steve Tulowitzki. Steve, a former strategy consultant turned Professional Certified Coach and elected official, serves on the Town Council in his native Munster, Indiana. His mission is to increase our collective consciousness so that social and racial justice in America becomes the obvious choice, and he believes that TRUE change requires Truth, Reconciliation, Unity, and Execution. Steve shares how patterns of veering away from the mainstream world of white male intention has allowed him to eventually see what he could not previously see. In his reflections and responses listen to how he compares his process for learning a new language to allyships, how he trades in what he calls blood money to purify his soul as an aspiring ally.

You can connect with Steve on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, & Clubhouse.

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Neil opens the mic for Laura Radley, the owner of Cultivate Containers, in this rich episode of The Leadership Range. She speaks from the heart and her lived experience about allyship on the back of the insurrection on January 6th, 2021.

You can connect with Laura (and find out more about Cultivate Containers) on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.

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Neil creates room for Ken Mossman to tussle with what he was seeing, what his body experienced, and the reality that a narrative around innocence was suddenly gone as we observed insurrectionists storm the US Capitol on 1/6/2021. Ken explores some big questions that may be the questions many need to hear to get their head around the feelings they’re having now. Even in the absence of clear answers, sometimes it is the right question that is most needed to determine a new way forward. Ken is a professional coach and leader who works with men. He has been doing his work for two decades with international clientele spanning corporate, academia, entrepreneurship, and arts. He is living a big broad life full of adventures. I encourage you to read Ken’s story on his website. His focus is helping men expand their emotional literacy, fluency and flexibility so they can lead with presence and empathy.

You can connect with Ken on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

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Neil opens a space for Gillian Egan to reflect on her experience observing the insurrection unfold on January 6th in Washington DC. Gillian Egan is an attorney who lives in New Orleans with her husband and three sons. She has worked in multiple careers (including as a naturalist, as an actor, and as a Human Resources Manager), has lived all over the world, and strives to repay the many blessings she has received from communities of color through imperfect, humble allyship. Listen to Gillian’s journey in the conversation from her inner world of emotions to her outer world of actions, and into relationship development. Gillian’s work is ongoing. Her process is the process all aspiring allies in life and at work at all levels of leadership. For those who are in the margins of US and corporate culture, there is work here for you too. Leaders at all levels need to be met. Not where they are and not where you are, but in the relationship that is between you, which is where allyship lives.

You can connect with Gillian on LinkedIn.

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Neil offers a perspective on the events in Washington, DC on January 6th, describing his observations, and urge to invite white allies to the conversation to share their points of view in a multiple part series. In closing, Neil invites listeners into reflective work around Leadership, Relationships, Wellbeing, and Inclusion as we all process what is happening in America now. If we do not learn to relate across divergent views and make sure all human needs are met, we will self-destruct.

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Neil and Dr. Cherry Collier talk about Moral Licensing and connect Leadership Fragility and Emotional Tax in the conversation. Dr. Cherry is a Master Certified Executive Coach, Organizational Psychologist, and Inclusion Strategist. She works with individuals in or who strive to be in the C-suite to master the skills to lead and love using a head, heart, and hands approach. She remembers having it all; a 6-figure job, both parents living, a loving and supportive relationship, and all the other things that go along with the fairy tale life. Suddenly, her dreams were turned inside out, forcing her to make some very tough life choices. Her greatest choice was choosing a growth mindset. She believes that success is in each of us. Especially you!

You can connect with Dr. Cherry on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.

Check out her personal website, DrCherryCoaching.com.

Neil creates space for Louria Lindauer, a high energy, real, practical, and down to earth agilist, professional coach, and leadership development consultant to share the story of her leadership range from anger as a new college graduate to using open heartedness as a superpower to do her work. In this down to earth conversation, Louria talks about how organizations just need to “Stop it”. She drops a cool acronym called FLEX as a tool for majority white leaders to use a to minimize microaggressions, and offers a reflection on how we can all think about our roles in new ways to create culturally competent leadership programs.

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Louria is the founder of Success Agility - check out their website.

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In today’s episode Neil opens the space for CoachKJ, Kevin Johnson. Through storytelling and connection they navigate how lived experiences shape and build potential for leadership expansion. Kevin begins by offering how one experience as a church-boy informed him that he "had something." From there Kevin eloquently demonstrates how he became the coach and leader he is today. This episode covers a lot of ground, from spirituality and resilience to personal power and shadow work. There is a special gift at the end from KJ.

Check out Kevin's website. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.