Release your potential
Liberatory leaders create space to define + experiment with new ways of leading that tap into the wisdom of marginalized peoples, make room for all, + speak to what’s needed now and in the future. We bring our wildest dreams into vivid focus in ways that disallow the forces that limit our imagination + our beliefs about what we deserve. When we practice liberatory leadership, we make the impossible possible.
Make your wildest dreams come true.
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Self-Awareness
Take stock of what makes us powerful and the ways we magnify + minimize our light and the light of others around us.
> Understand how your personal history shapes how you lead.
> Unpack how systems of oppression are personally affecting you.
> Understand the impact that you have on others.
> Commit to and invest in your growth and change.
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Defiant Visioning
Unearth what stands in the way of visioning and do it anyway.
Keep liberation and power “to and with” at the center.
Plan for a various possible futures by studying signals, patterns + trends.
Dream with those least invested in the status quo.
Leave no one out. Put yourself in the picture and allow others to see themselves in your vision.
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Structural Resilience
Build strong, sustainable, trauma informed organizational structures + cultures that fortify people on the frontlines of manifesting social, economic, environmental and all forms of justice.
Cultivate resilience by honoring our trauma, pain + mistakes by allowing them to inform how we move in the world, not impair how we move in the world.
Maintain structural integrity by addressing the load and accounting for forces of nature.
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New Models of Leadership
Liberatory Leaders are able to...
Glean lessons from the past to seed the future.
Be responsive to the conditions of the people in the organization.
Encourage a sense of belonging and collective efficacy, which in turn bring stronger feelings of self-worth and agency.
An invitation to collaborate
Kimberly Freeman Brown, the author of the Liberatory Leadership framework, stands on the shoulders and beside the shoulders of many who have helped shape her thinking about the kind of leadership that is necessary to create the world we want. She also welcomes your thoughts on what you like about this framework, what’s missing, and how it can be applied.