Leesa Renee Hall is an author, facilitator, social historian, and creative word artist. Author of seven books, Leesa was known as a technology pioneer before turning her attention to writing about the intersection of race, spirituality, and leadership.

After writing half a million words over 365 consecutive days, Leesa discovered that expressive writing can help expand our sense of identity and connect to a higher guidance. She helps highly sensitive introverted leaders (HSIL for short) use the art of self-inquiry to question their unconscious biases so they create truly inclusive communities, companies, and corporations.

Leesa is on the Advisory Board for Awarepreneurs, a global community of social enterprise business leaders and entrepreneurs with a focus on social justice, diversity, and inclusion. Leesa’s tips have been featured in American Express OPEN, Globe & Mail, Choice, The Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, Profit, and Inc. to name a few, along with television, radio and podcast appearances.

The White Fragility Script: The Five Act Experience [INFOGRAPHIC]

#ExpressiveWriting Prompts to Use If You’ve Been Accused of #WhiteFragility #SpiritualBypass or #WhitePrivilege

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Tanya M. Odom, global consultant, diversity, equity, and inclusion and civil rights thought leader.

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Tanya M. Odom, global consultant, diversity, equity, and inclusion and civil rights thought leader, writer and coach. Tanya has worked globally for over 20 years, in over 30 countries, as a consultant, coach, and facilitator focusing on areas including: Diversity and Inclusion, Inclusive Leadership, Race/Racism, Challenging Conversations, Mindfulness, Coaching, Innovation and Creativity, Educational Equity, and Youth Empowerment/mentoring.

Tanya’s unique portfolio career has allowed her to work in the education, private sector/corporate, not-for-profit/NGO, law enforcement, and in university/college arenas.

She is the co-author of “Evaluation in the Field of Education for Democracy, Human Rights and Tolerance.” Tanya is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, where she has written posts about diversity, leadership, self-compassion, and mindfulness. Tanya also writes for cnn.com. Tanya’s work and commentary has also appeared in several publications including Diversity Woman Magazine, Bloomberg News, and The Village Voice.

Tanya was named by Diversity Best Practices as “A Diversity Thought Leader to Follow on Twitter.

Tanya has been trained as a coach by the Center for Creative Leadership and she is certified in the Hay Group’s Emotional and Social Competency Inventory. Tanya has also been trained in the Difficult Conversations methodology at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

Tanya is passionate about working with youth, and engaging youth in meaningful, relevant conversations. She has combined her diversity and youth focused work to work on projects in Northern Ireland, where she worked with Catholic and Protestant Youth, and in Israel, where she worked with Palestinian and Israeli youth on topics including bias, dialogue, community building, and youth leadership.

As a mindfulness practitioner, Tanya weaves in mindfulness research and practice in her work with individuals and groups and connects it to leadership, teams, intentional inclusion, and the mitigating of unconscious bias.

In July 2017, Entrepreneur Magazine featured Tanya as one of the “3 Women Entrepreneurs Who Unleash Their Energy for the Greater Good.”

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Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed is a Montrealer; born and raised on the West Island where she resides with her husband and two kids. She is the founder and editor in chief of CanadianMomEh.com, an online lifestyle blog celebrating Canadian diversity. She is the CEO of Social Diversity Media Inc. a culturally diverse digital PR/Marketing firm. She is a Huffington Post blogger as well as a columnist for the Montreal Gazette. Fariha is passionate about her identity as a Montrealer born, Canadian Muslim woman as well as building bridges through dialogue.

www.CanadianMomEh.Com

You will quickly hear and feel Fariha’s heart, passion and commitment when you tune in to this conversation. Both her written and spoken expression are very moving and deeply impactful. She is a true pioneer making such a positive difference in the world, blazing trails, and speaking her truth and words we all need to hear.

We talked diversity, social media, and the journey through motherhood as an Influencer, CEO, Journalist and Spokesperson as well as the importance of supporting one another as we strive to make a difference.

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