WHAT WILL I LEARN?

“Without community, there is no liberation…but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.” - Audre Lorde

You don’t need a leadership title to show up as a leader. Great leaders and allies share a few things in common - they are people-oriented, great listers, able to tap into the talents and motivations of their team, and most importantly, they use their power to advocate and take action for groups that don’t have a seat at the table.

Inclusion is at the heart of great leadership; without conscious inclusion, we often unconsciously exclude others.

This session will bring best practices and have a candid conversation about the journey of individual leaders and the challenges and opportunities to making an investment in authentically cultivating yourself – grounded in inclusion.

Black History Month

Since this conversation falls during Black History Month, we'll also dive into the importance of focusing explicitly (not exclusively) on race-equity in our organizations and communities. Ahead our conversation on Feb 12, we're sharing a few resources to make the most of Black History Month - and step into the experiences of Black women and build greater empathy.

ABOUT APARNA

Founder of Moving Beyond, Aparna works at the intersection of DEI and organizational design. She currently leads the strategy and evaluation practice within the firm and supports fund managers, wealth advisors, impact-investors, philanthropists, and other social innovators creating a positive impact for people and the planet.

An award winning entrepreneurs, Aparna has launched a number of companies in the past decade. Her first in 2013, Project Feast, upskilled immigrant and refugee women in South King County to launch careers in the food industry. In 2015 she launched Firki, India’s first online teacher education platform supporting 1 million educators in its first year and in 2019 she launched Future for Us, a platform to advance women of color at work and grew a professional community of 11,000.

Her work has been featured in Forbes, Seattle Magazine, Business Insider, PSBJ, and Melinda Gates’s Evoke Magazine. She been a presenter on the intersection of diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) with program design and evaluation at SXSW, The American Evaluation Association, SOCAP, Global Impact Investing Network, as well a number of Greater Seattle Area organizations, including Equal Pay Today, Equal Rights Advocates, WASBA, Legal Fund of Washington, Seattle University and more.

Aparna serves as an advisor to a number of startups, former faculty at the Washington State Bar Association, and is a regular contributor to publications focused on diversity and inclusion in workforce development. Having lived and worked in six countries, Aparna brings a diversity lens to all her work.​

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