Work Spaces as “Well-Spaces”: The Equity-Hope-Resilience Connection
Recent surveys report that women of color in the workplace, feel undervalued, disrespected, exhausted and invisible. In 2021 nFormation reported that half of the women of color surveyed planned to leave their employers in the following year.
Because of workplace inequities women of color are significantly more likely to report, anxiety, depression, burn out and hopelessness. Understanding the impacts of these stressors, structural factors, and the lack of equitable opportunities for women of color is foundational to building resilient workplaces.
Through a trauma informed and hope centered framework, organizational leaders can reduce harm, cultivate wellness and advance equitable outcomes that transform workplace culture and ensure that women of color feel supported, valued and connected.
This workshop will discuss the equity-hope-resilience connection and provide recommendations on institutional supports to reduce harm and cultivate wellness for women of color.
- Understand how workplace (and personal) relationships, self-confidence and ‘sustained productivity’ are undermined by compounding stress factors.
- Explore the equity-hope-resilience connection - a generative process critical to employee well-being.
- Identify strategies to develop institutional supports that reduce harm and cultivate wellness for women of color.
Lucretia Robertson (she/her)
A strategic leader and advocate for equity. As a “talent cultivator and change instigator”, she’s deeply interested in ensuring women make and take space as their own advocates and is fortunate to have opportunities to connect women to what matters to them. Lucretia is the principal of Clarity Partnerships, a black-owned, women-led micro-consultancy firm that works with organizations desiring to elevate women's visibility in leadership.
More recently, she is the founder of Women Who Rise, a nonprofit dedicated to elevating women-powered leadership by providing WoC, in informal and formal leadership roles, access to positive mentorship, leadership development, board governance training and tools for confident and resilient leadership. Although she has a lot on her plate she feels blessed to be juggling speaking, connecting and serving in the local community.
