Conscious Change

How to Navigate Differences and Foster Inclusion in Everyday Relationships

Jean Kantambu Latting, V. Jean Ramsey, Stephanie Foy, Amy Foy Hageman, Stephanie Foy

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781647427092
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

Stop Reacting to Conflict. Start Leading with Consciousness. In a world polarized by disparate beliefs, navigating relationships can feel like a minefield. Whether in the boardroom or living room, differences often lead to drained energy and stalled progress.

Conscious Change is your road map through turbulent waters. Moving beyond theory, authors Jean Kantambu Latting and V. Jean Ramsey present a framework empowering you to shift your story, exemplified by nineteen real-life case studies from leaders who’ve faced emotionally demanding challenges head-on. By mastering the principles of Conscious Change, you will learn to distinguish intent from impact, call people “in,” and find common ground.

What You Will Discover:

• The Road Map to Resilience: Tools to maintain leadership capacity during high-conflict situations.
• Real-world Application: Honest stories of failure and success in multicultural environments.
• How to Foster True Inclusion: Strategies to move beyond “diversity quotas” and toward genuine equity.
• Emotional Mastery: Techniques to manage reactions and foster psychological safety.

Leadership requires presence. Whether you are an HR professional or a corporate leader, this book will give you the skills to turn friction into growth. Embrace the differences. Lead the change.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Foreword by Brené Brown, PhD
• Foreword by Myrtle P. Bell, PhD
• Chapter 1. Real-Life Change Meets Behavioral Science Research
• Chapter 2. Conscious Change Described
• Chapter 3. Hijacked! by Emily Schwartz Kemper
• Chapter 4. Choosing a Career Can Be Emotional Work! by Shanquela Williams (with Amy Foy Hageman)
• Chapter 5. Learning to Test Negative Assumptions by Eli Davis
• Chapter 6. Dashed Hopes and Expectations by Tracy Forman
• Chapter 7. Can Anyone Be a Social Worker? The Challenge of Correcting Misinformation by Alicia Beatrice
• Chapter 8. Clearing Emotions Can Be a Daunting Task by Carole Marmell
• Chapter 9. What You See Depends on the Lens You Use by Steven Hayes
• Chapter 10. I Need to Understand Where She’s Coming From by Ashley Ochoa
• Chapter 11. De-escalate Tense and Dangerous Situations by Larry Hill (with Eli Davis)
• Chapter 12. Change in a Bureaucratic Organization Can Be a Slog by Chamara Harris
• Chapter 13. How Do I Deal with a Hostile Work Environment? by Orfelinda Coronado
• Chapter 14. Walking a Fine Line: Building Relationships in the Face of Skepticism and Distrust by Nadia Maynard
• Chapter 15. Act Out of Values Rather than Emotions by Ashleigh Gardner-Cormier
• Chapter 16. Compassion Wins the Day by Treshina Smith
• Chapter 17. We Will Learn Today by Charles D. Shaw
• Chapter 18. Testing! Testing! Digging Deeper into Initial Resistance to Change by Erika Young
• Chapter 19. Introducing New Ways of Thinking into a Risk-Averse Organization by Melissa Simon
• Chapter 20. Anticipate a Certain Amount of Resistance by Mary H. Beck
• Chapter 21. GOAL: Create a Culturally Responsive Organization by Sylvia R. Epps
• Chapter 22. You’ve Read the Stories, Now What?
• Let’s Connect!
• Notes
• Index
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Selected Titles from She Writes Press