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Managing Well is our weekly series, offering practical tools, real-world strategies, and thoughtful reflections to help you navigate the complex aspects of leadership. From building trust by giving honest and clear feedback to having the necessary conversations, we provide guidance on creating teams that work well and feel well.

Grounded in emotional intelligence and psychological safety, each post offers perspective and guidance for accountable, human-centered leadership.

Because managing others well always begins with managing ourselves.

Get practical tools for the hard parts of leadership.

Grounded in emotional intelligence and psychological safety, each post offers perspective and guidance for accountable, human-centered leadership.

Because managing others well always begins with managing ourselves.

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Trash, Transfer, Trim, Treasure

Too often, at work and at home, we try to take on everything and suffer from burnout because of it. Try this Trash, Transfer, Trim, Treasure exercise we use at The Ladipo Group. It’s essentially a to-do and to-don’t list to help you recognize responsibilities and activities you should stop doing, delegate to others, spend…

Intersectionality

Intersectionality: The Overlap of Race, Gender, and Other Identities

Intersectionality. You’ve probably heard the term before, but do you know what it means and where it came from? The phrase “Intersectionality” was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. Crenshaw, a Black academic scholar and lawyer, originated the concept to describe how race and gender discrimination “intersect” with one another and overlap. Today the term…

Black Women Hair, Current News, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion

Being a Black Woman at Work: From the Supreme Court to Hollywood

We all know too well the frustration and anger behind the composure and “professional” demeanor of Ketanji Brown Jackson during the confirmation hearing last week. It’s what many of us regularly endure in work settings. The major difference is that this played out on a national stage for all to see. While many praise Judge…

General, Stress

Sometimes, Black History is about Healing

ICYMI: The Ladipo Group hosted a 4-part Twitter Spaces series, This Isn’t Just About Cosby in response to the documentary, We Need to Talk About Cosby. We want to give voice to the silence of trauma. It’s about something greater, something that has weighed on our communities for far too long. This is about us…

Current News, Depression, General, Self-care

We’re Not Okay

The first month of the new year is over and we’re not okay. We’re struggling to work and live and grieve an ongoing, collective trauma as we enter the third year of COVID. At this point, we’ve all known someone with COVID, had it ourselves, have buried a loved one from it, or some combination…

General, Self-care

A new way of looking at the New Year

I remember feeling some relief when 2020 ended because 2021 had to be a better year, right? And here we are at the end of another long, exhausting, stressful, and unsettling year, but one that’s also been filled with joy, celebration, connection, and kindness. So often we exist in an either/or space. Either we’re happy…

Anxiety, Depression, Family

Help for Handling the Holiday Season

Many of us are dealing with the triple whammy of mood changes with decreased sunlight, stress about the upcoming holidays, and still navigating the pandemic and all that goes along with it. If daylight saving time is affecting your mood in your part of the U.S., you’re not alone. Starting and ending your day in…

Self-care, Uncategorized

Tune In Mind: The Importance of Tracking Your Mental Health

It can be easy to get lost in the chaos of everyday life, but these unprecedented times have shown that it’s more important than ever to take care of yourself and keep track of the over health of your mental state. Last week, I sent my husband a text for the fourth consecutive cloudy day…

Self-care

Easing into Fall

I entered this September differently than I ever have before as I’m returning from my first one-month sabbatical from work. This was the first time in my career that I allowed myself an extensive break to simply be. The weeks quickly filled with birthday celebrations, a family vacation, a memorial service, and some much-needed alone…

Self-care, Stress

Push Pause on the Road to Success

Recently, we watched and debated, Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka taking a break to care for their mental health. While many praised them for pausing and resting others questioned if they were dedicated to their profession. How many of us can relate to wanting, even desperately needing, a break but we don’t take it for…

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