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Scenario

How to navigate leadership transition in social justice organizations

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.

What we've seen

Power transitions require the powerful to willingly relinquish control, creating dependency on the very people whose dominance the change is meant to address.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Ethnic identity and heritage?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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