I'm a consultant, researcher, educator, and keynote speaker who works with businesses and their leaders to design and implement transformative diversity strategies. I help global organizations identify and address the psychodynamics of resistance to equity and inclusion initiatives. My work focuses on why people resist corporate equity and inclusion initiatives and how to get them to care about and for people who are different from them. I am a 2x TEDx speaker available for keynotes, panels, and fireside chats. I also work with individual leaders and leadership teams to install reflective practices that enhance capacity for leading inclusive cultures.
Felicia's Work Selected for Amplify July Campaign
|
Felicia A. Henderson
I'm a consultant, researcher, educator, and keynote speaker who works with businesses and their leaders to design and implement transformative diversity strategies. I help global organizations identify and address the psychodynamics of resistance to equity and inclusion initiatives. My work focuses on why people resist corporate equity and inclusion initiatives and how to get them to care about and for people who are different from them. I am a 2x TEDx speaker available for keynotes, panels, and fireside chats. I also work with individual leaders and leadership teams to install reflective practices that enhance capacity for leading inclusive cultures.
No Saviors Needed 3 MIN READ LINKEDIN YOUTUBE IBJ INSIGTS Watching Zinedine Zidane, the new coach of the French men's national team, race down the sidelines and kick a soccer ball with sheer delight reminded me of an incident one summer day in Paris. The Lost Ball I was strolling after lunch and saw some teenage boys playing with a soccer ball on a fenced-in rooftop court. I let my mind wander and didn’t see how it happened. Suddenly, the soccer ball was on the sidewalk bouncing into the...
FELICIA A. HENDERSON NOVEMBER INSIGHTS This month's newsletter provides leaders with four steps for responding with more intention and empathy to individual and group-based distress signals. At the Stoplight There’s a surprise around ever corner in Paris – sometimes wonderful, sometimes perplexing. As I approached an intersection earlier this month, I noticed a young woman with a reddened face and wet cheeks. It was obvious that she was crying, that she was likely experiencing emotional...
FELICIA A. HENDERSON OCTOBER INSIGHTS This month's newsletter is a reminder for DEI leaders about preparing people for change. Read through to the end for an opportunity to hear me speak on October 14 as part of a Cambridge Judge Business School panel for British Black History Month. Dragged Along The scene I saw out the window as my bus drove along the banks of the Seine was agonizing, and I was powerless to stop it. A boy not older than four was sprinting hard to keep up with his mother who...