Our nonprofit board is trying to transition leadership from our white founder to staff who are mostly people of color, but every time we try to plan the transition, the founder keeps finding reasons why the organization isn't ready yet. The staff is getting frustrated and the board feels stuck between supporting the founder and actually making this change happen.
More people experience this than they realize.
Power transitions require the powerful to willingly relinquish control, creating dependency on the very people whose dominance the change is meant to address.
“Where Are You with Ethnic identity and heritage?”
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