Meet Community Member Marcia Alesan Dawkins, PhD Senior Research Scientist, Center for Creative Leadership, Leading Expert in Equity and Strategic Communication

In this episode, Marcia Alesan Dawkins, senior research scientist at the Center for Creative Leadership, public speaker, author of four books including Clearly Invisible, Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity, expert storyteller, and regular speaker for The Carol Emmott Foundation, discusses her ideas about the meaning of identity. Marcia shares her profound take on sincerity over conformity and grapples with the notion that we don’t just have one story in life, but rather a larger culmination of stories that we present to the world. Listen as Marcia explains her personal exploration of identity and presents a provocative analysis of the connections between authenticity, identity, succession planning, and leadership development. Marcia also delves into where we belong in society from an evolutionary perspective and how the social, political, and emotional effects of conforming impact humanity.