The Convergence of Inclusion and Leadership

Nonprofit boards are often responsible for looking outward and creating strategy that involves impact and oversight. In this hands-on session, you’ll have the opportunity to look inward and enhance your awareness of any potential blind spots pertaining to inclusion, leadership, and the impact these have on the organization that you serve. Walk away with exercises to begin assessing your board’s effectiveness around leading through the lens of inclusion.

Speaker

Nakia Green

President, Nakia J Consulting Inc.

Nakia J. Green is the principal consultant for Nakia J Consulting Inc., a firm with specialized capabilities in leadership and organizational development and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She sees coaching as an opportunity to help leaders drive organizational impact through self-discovery, confidence, and awareness. As a social impact entrepreneur, she is also the founder of Culture Solutions and Culture Solutions in Action, for-profit and nonprofit organizations designed to decrease unemployment and underemployment amongst people of color and people with disabilities. Green has begun to broaden the conversation equity and inclusion through the Culture Solutions Learning Lab, an online meeting place to advance conversations on identity. A native of the west side of Chicago, Green has always served her community. She has been a mentor for Sisters for Higher Education, and community organizer on behalf of a young adult’s community-organizing group, PACT—Public Action for Change Today. She is a proud board member of Ada S. McKinley, Chairperson of The Butterfly Effect NFP, and a Leadership Development Consultant to the NAACP Westside Chapter.