Creating Inclusive Cultures with Faith Clarke

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Organizational health and teamwork specialist Faith Clarke (she/her), is committed to helping business leaders cultivate a values-infused, inclusive culture where people feel like they belong, so that they can deliver on their business and social impact promises. Faith is particularly passionate about inclusion for BIPOC and neurodistinct individuals, grounded in her experience as a Caribbean immigrant and as a mother of neurodistinct humans.

Faith’s background in computer engineering, doctoral research and numerous experiences with organizations that care about their social impact curate a high-touch, systematic approach to building strong teams, which has helped her clients improve operations, maximize productivity and double their revenue. Faith is a published researcher, author of the Amazon bestseller, “Parenting like a Ninja,” and host of the Peak Performing Team podcast. She has contributed widely to publications and online shows in the US and UK, and delivers workshops and lectures in a variety of academic and professional settings.

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Discussed in this episode:

• Faith’s relationship with feminism
• The differences in racial dynamics in Jamaica vs. the US
• Why we must widen the “Circle of Concern” vs. falling into the “us vs. them” trap
• Why changing individual behaviors is only 20% of the solution
• Watching for triggers and tending to your needs as an activist
• Shame and burnout don’t do anything to change systemic problems
• What decolonization means, and how it looks in the workplace
• How workplace cultures form and how they can change through micro actions
• Why top-up revolution works, but top-down leadership is more compassionate and effective
• The role that compassion plays in Faith’s decolonization work
• How to maintain compassion in challenging conversations
• The role of self-care and community support for folks engaged in social change
• Faith’s self-care practices
• How Faith is challenging capitalist norms in her business

Resources mentioned:

• “Parenting like a Ninja” by Faith Clarke
• Peak Performing Team podcast
• “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Circle of Human Concern by John Powell from the Othering & Belonging Institute
• Faith’s ‘Decolonize Work’ interview series
• Jade Connolly Duggan
• Kaiser’s Room in NYC

Learn more about accountability coaching with host Becky Mollenkamp at https://beckymollenkamp.com

A full transcript of this interview is available at FeministFoundersPodcast.com