The ugly truth about diversity is that some people worry they must give up their power for others to have a chance. La'Wana Harris's Inclusion Coaching method helps people realize that sharing power isn't the same as losing it.
La'Wana Harris is a Consulting Partner for The Ken Blanchard Companies, Certified Diversity Executive, and ICF Credentialed Coach. She has created diversity and inclusion awareness programs, cultural competence programs, and overall integrated management solutions. La'Wana has conducted trainings around the world, including the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and South Africa.
“Diversity Beyond Lip Service makes a good read for all concerned
with the question of human training, leadership development, and
organizational change. It challenges us to think about diversity in
more concrete ways to ensure transformative change in
organizational leadership and within institutional structures. At
the heart of diversity is addressing the power and structural
issues of critical engagement of ideas, beliefs, practices, and
social action. The book’s major strength is the focus on concrete
and actionable practices to realize the hopes and dreams of genuine
inclusion and diversity.”
—George J. Sefa Dei, Professor of Social Justice Education, Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, and
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
“Diversity Beyond Lip Service: A Coaching Guide for Challenging
Bias provides a clear, powerful guide through what a growing number
of us in the coaching profession believe is imperative to our
survival and relevance as a profession. To provide the service to
our clients that we claim, we must do our own work to become aware
of our personal and organizational blind spots and biases in the
complex realm of diversity and inclusion. Through many powerful
examples, and with a very calm, incontrovertible voice, La’Wana
Harris has made the intersection between coaching and inclusion
work crystal clear. Bravo!”
—Halli MacNab, PCC, President, Association of Coach Training
Organizations, and C.O.O., Accomplishment Coaching
“La’Wana Harris has opened this coach’s eyes to the power of
coaching practices to create new paths for diversity and inclusion
work—whether or not you are formally trained as a coach. Please
read this book and help create workplaces with honest engagement
and access for all.”
—Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and
two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the World
“Diversity Beyond Lip Service is a wonderful guide
to diversity and inclusion for intelligent, caring human beings
and their organizations. La’Wana Harris wants us to
understand that inclusivity is everyone’s responsibility.
There’s no shaming or finger-pointing here. We all have room
to improve—because whether we know it or not, we all have biases.
No matter who you are, you’ll be a better person for reading this
book.”
—Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The New One Minute
Manager® and Servant Leadership in Action
“Coaching is about expanding people’s view of themselves and the
world around them. La’Wana Harris demonstrates how we can use a
coaching approach in conversations to help people courageously
recognize when they have acted out of judgment, power, and
privilege. We don’t need to be told to be more inclusive; we need
people who help make awareness and inclusion a conscious choice,
even when the conversations feel uncomfortable. All leaders,
coaches, and people who care about healing the divisiveness in the
workplace and the world should practice what they learn from this
book.”
—Marcia Reynolds, board member and past Global President,
International Coach Federation, and author of The Discomfort
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