This book is for higher education faculty, staff, and leaders who:

• Realize that the current landscape requires dismantling oppressive policies, practices, and procedures that exclude and gatekeep.

• Recognize that women, BIPOC, and others have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic and its aftermath including the compounded stress of ongoing racial injustices within their institutions and in society as a whole.

• Seek guidance that resonates with their desire to live and lead in a manner that aligns with their values rather than conforming their values to a workplace that does not appreciate their values.

• Want to express themselves as whole persons, including their emotional and spiritual lives, aspects of leadership that are not often addressed in traditional leadership guides.

• Embrace a growth mindset and consider themselves life-long learners.

• Want to make systemic changes to create more equitable environments for everyone in their charge.

• Are seasoned leaders who want to stretch their skills to create inclusion and positive change.

• Are mid-career leaders who are seeking opportunities to lead more authentically but have not had role models to show the way.

• Are junior faculty or staff who lead without formal titles but who want to infuse new ways of leadership into their committee work, labs, or studio spaces.

• Are motivated to use what privilege they have to empower rather than “save” others.

• Desire a leadership guide to support self-coaching or peer mentoring.