Tech Whistleblowers: Honoring Ifeoma Ozoma

According to her LinkedIn profile, Ifeoma Ozoma is the Founder and Principal of Earthseed, a consulting firm advising individuals, organizations, and companies on the issues of tech accountability, public policy, health misinformation, and related communications. She is a tech policy expert with experience leading global public policy partnerships, public policy related content safety development, and US Federal, State, and International policymaker engagement at Pinterest, Facebook, and Google.

Cassandra Returns, Courage, WhistleblowersLORI EBERLYFebruary 22, 2021#timesup, heroes, whistleblowers, harassment, ifeomaozoma

Language Heals: Understanding Institutional Betrayal

Have you had that experience where a word or phrase lands like the answer to a riddle you didn’t know you were searching for? I was researching trauma + sexual harassment when I stumbled upon Dr. Jennifer' Freyd’s work on institutional betrayal and betrayal trauma. These concepts deeply resonated in my body, creating that know-in-your-bones feeling of being found and understood. Turns out my pain has a name - and a remedy.

Courage, Trauma, Leadership, Cassandra ReturnsLORI EBERLYFebruary 4, 2021me too, times up tech, sexual harassment, sexual violence

Toward a Life of Balance

As the year comes to an end, we reflect on what went right or wrong and how to course correct for the future. We are desperate to find a "new normal" and a life of balance. But we cannot create a new normal that brings the past forward, unchallenged and unchanged. The coronavirus, the economy, civic unrest, social inequities, and all the rest of it will still be there, waiting for us on the other side of midnight. Then what? As we approach 2021, how can we meet it with eyes wide open, a heart full of courage, and our hands outstretched to offer our best to everything and everyone that comes our way?

Courage, Self-Awareness, EmpathyLORI EBERLYDecember 16, 2020year-end reflection, change management, self awareness, growth

The Gift of Duality: Welcome It All

This is your reminder that either/or thinking is a trait of white supremacy culture. I promise, we’re more complicated than that. You are capable of both/and thinking. We are not binary. We are complex, multifaceted, multidimensional beings. Learning to accept the fullness of our experience is an act of radical self-care.

Self-Awareness, Curiosity, Creativity, integrityLORI EBERLYNovember 9, 2020self-awareness, duality, nonduality, acceptance

Find Your Fuckery in the Mirror

Mirrors are crucial tools to increase self-awareness, which requires tedious and demanding mental work. For the leader, self-awareness is an ongoing understanding of our communication patterns and how we enhance and damage trust. Without this knowledge, we cannot reduce our own fuckery.

The Fuckery Book, Self-Awareness, DiscoveryLORI EBERLYOctober 7, 2020Mirroring, Communication, self-knowledge

In Search of Justice: Living the Questions

Our world is calling for help. Do you hear? She is summoning all healers, artists, and truth tellers. Our communities—fatigued and burdened with struggling to create long overdue change socially and environmentally—desperately need social justice advocates and community organizers, risk takers and peace makers. Will the equity experts, mediators, and transformers of conflict, please stand up? Those of you with a history of making good trouble, please welcome the newcomers. Make room for the optimists and the cynics. All are welcome. All are needed.

Leadership, Self-Awareness, Mediation, CommitmentLORI EBERLYSeptember 17, 2020MEDIATION, communication, CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Good Trouble: Marching for Jacob Blake

In the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake by police officers in Kenosha, WI, I joined about 300 other Portlanders in protest outside the local police union. Contrary to mainstream news reports, Portland is and has been overwhelmingly peaceful, organized, and unified. // Truth matters. What really happened matters. Believing witnesses matters. Those who shape the narrative hold the power. Black Lives Matter.

Empathy, f*ckery, Racism, integrityLORI EBERLYAugust 28, 2020Black Lives Matter, truth, real talk

Leadership Communication: Stop Mincing Words

Trying to be “nice” and using euphemisms to remain comfortable, rather than communicating directly is a form of fucker. Honesty can feel uncomfortable—both to receive and to give. But being willing to be vulnerable—to become uncomfortable with discomfort—is part and parcel of effective communication and leads to greater understanding and connection.

Fuckery 101: The Two Swords—Discovery and Direction

Leadership requires honed skills and mastery of tools. The samurai teaches, “Efficiency and smooth progress, prudence in all matters, recognizing true courage, recognizing different levels of morale, instilling confidence, and realizing what can and cannot be reasonably expected.” As the samurai relies on two swords—one long and one short—to achieve mastery, so too can today’s leaders benefit from cultivating the two swords of Discovery and Direction.

Leadership Bedrock: Know Yourself

The only way I know how to show up authentically is to be vulnerable. So, I started this video series talking about how I am racist. I’m presenting it as a tool for other white people who think of themselves as liberal, progressive, and well-intentioned in order to highlight that racism isn’t something we can just say we’re aware of and leave it at that. We have to recognize how intoxicating it is to experience white privilege and that intoxication— much like a drug or alcohol—is addictive and we don’t want to admit we have a problem.

Leadership, Self-Awareness, IdentityLORI EBERLYJuly 30, 2020boundaries, expectations, showing up, authenticity

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