Leadership is Confronting My White Privilege with Jennifer Garvey Berger

In this episode, I talk to leadership coach and author Jennifer Garvey Berger's about racism, white fragility, understanding and confronting white privilege. About Jennifer Garvey Berger: Jennifer Garvey Berger has a masters and a doctorate from Harvard University, she is an author of 3 books and CEO of Cultivating Leadership where she and her partners design and teach leadership programs, coach senior teams, and supports new ways of thinking about strategy and people with senior leaders in the private, non-profit, and government sectors around the world. Jennifer loves to write, to walk her dog through the streets of London, to scuba dive, to travel with her husband and their nearly-adult children, and figure out how to make whole organizations work better. Follow Jennifer LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-garvey-berger-7b4a264/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/jgberger Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jennifergarveyberger/ Get to know Jennifer - https://www.cultivatingleadership.com/our-team/jennifer-garvey-berger Link to Jennifers article - Confronting my White Privilege: Flashback in black and white Link to Jennifers Business - https://www.cultivatingleadership.com/ Jennifer's Blog - https://www.cultivatingleadership.com/research-resources/blog If you liked this episode, please share it with your friends / write a review - it goes a long way! :) In Episode 01 of Everyday Day Leadership, Jennifer and I discuss (times are approximate): 04:30 Struggle of talking about white privilege without coming across as condescending 06:40 Silence is its own kind of violence 08:20 What does white privilege mean? 09:30 Changing her organisations approach to make it more diverse 16:00 Having crucial conversations around race 19:30 Understanding the lived experience of black people 22:30 What does anti-racism and allyship look like? 29:30 Leaders should be willing to make mistakes. 36:30 Leaders need to be willing to lose power to create a better world 38:30 Why leaders we need to change who they are 46:00 The next generation talking to their parents on racism Tweet a Quote There is no progress without losing something that you had. Those people who have been clinging on, there is a better world ahead. Development theory has taught us when you put down what you had a better world emerges Jennifer Garvey-Berger Tweet this quote Connect with SopeWebsite | Youtube | Instagram | LinkedInDid you find this helpful? If you like this episode, please leave a review or share it with someone who could benefit from listening.  We’re always keen to get feedback so if you have any thoughts, send us an email at [email protected]