Awakened Leadership as a Pillar for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This chapter considers the qualities of awakened leaders as critical components toward establishing and nurturing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. Elements to be discussed are the increased globalized performance of every work environment, and therewith, the reality of continuously shifting and diversifying workforces. The need for qualities such as understanding of mental models, confrontation of unconscious biases, being mindful of the in-group/out-group syndrome, respecting and embracing differences, terminating sexism and bigotry, and securing diversity at every level will be explored, with some strong leadership examples of leading advocates in this field, such as Caroline A. Wanga, Amanda McCalla-Leacy, and Binna Kandola.