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Week in Review Feb 14
I don’t really know how to write about this week. BCNet, after 2 or 3 years of having 1/3 keynote slots for a female speaker, went back to an all male keynote panel. Over the years I’ve provided no less than 9 names of potential speakers, spoken directly to an organizer who told me how “hard” it was, left comments on feedback forms and online surveys. For what? So much of rattling the cages and pointing out this nonsense is tiring. But it’s just a keynote right? Unfortunately, this complicit blindness extends upwards to our entire sector who still feel that in 2020 it’s ok to have senior leadership teams…
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Other voices in the world of experts and gurus
This week I attended a leadership course at a institution well known for its leadership courses. The course was expertly designed in terms of facilitation, activities, and careful thought to drawing on the expertise and contexts of the participants. At the same time that the course was happening, Jody Wilson-Raybould, a well respected Indigenous woman occupying a very senior position in Canadian federal politics was being raked over the coals for doing her job and upholding leadership integrity in a contentious political environment. So it was hard not to notice that the content gave most of the space to prominent leadership gurus – Stephen Covey, David Rock, Sam Kaner –…
