Authentic Anti-Racist Leadership: The HEART model
Jan 31, 2024 — 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Hosted by the Equitable Leadership Network, this event features a presentation by Rachelle Rogers-Ard, PhD, who will share her own HEART model to help develop tools to change traditional leadership.
Overview
The notion of leadership as a concept is usually based on a set a traits and/or attributes that people need to develop.Professor Rogers-Ard's research with BIPOC leaders indicates that true leadership is based on who someone is, rather than what he/she does. The more a leader is self-aware and rooted in his or her own authenticity, the more people can follow and move towards implementing an antiracist lens.
During this discussion, Rogers-Ard will share her own HEART model (Rogers-Ard & Knaus, 2021), ask reflection questions of participants, and share lessons learned from working with more than 100 leaders of color in the United States. Participants should be prepared to engage with each other, generate questions for whole-group discussion, and take time to reflect via a written journal. Participants will leave with tools to help shift their leadership.
Rachelle Rogers-Ard, PhD
Adjunct professor and author
Rachelle Rogers-Ard, PhD is a published author, adjunct professor, organizational development specialist and former school district educator with over 25 years’ experience preparing adults to lead and manage numerous workplace spaces. Rachelle specializes in coaching agency leaders to dismantle racist policies, practices and procedures that threaten organizational health. Currently, Professor Rogers-Ard is the Principal Lead for Harvest Consulting, where she grows school, district, and organizational managers through anti-racist leadership development.
Rogers-Ard designs and facilitates customized training around leadership and racial bias utilizing Social-Emotional best practices; as a certified Dare to Lead and The Leadership Challenge trainer, her work showcases the necessity for organizational Core Values to drive employee retention and outcomes. As such, Rogers-Ard challenges leaders to interrogate systemic racism if they are to effectively lead across difference; her own Authentic Leadership framework provides guiding questions for personal reflection towards inclusive organizational development. Her latest publication, Black Educational Leadership details the journey of African American Principals in racially oppressive systems.
Rogers-Ard is also the founder, content developer, and facilitator for Black Women: Life, Love, and Leadership (BW3L), an unapologetic affinity space for Black folx who present as female to listen, learn, and share similar experiences to combat cultural isolation.