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Bring your folding chair and join us for inclusive discussions on autobiographies of diverse and courageous individuals who achieved their career ambitions and added more chairs to the table for others. This program is for Boston and Cambridge residents only. All are welcome.
This month's selection is:
Leading From The Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Author: Stacey Abrams, Founder Fair Fight Action, Fair Count , and Southern Economic Advancement Project
Publisher: Picador
Moderator:
Alexis D. Griffith-Waye (she/her), Director, Employee Learning and Development, Harvard University
This book is accessible at the library. If you need to purchase the book and it is a financial hardship, contact us at edportal@harvard.edu. In your confirmation you will be provided 2-3 questions to consider as you read the book. These questions will be the basis for our discussion.
About the Book:
Leadership is hard. Convincing others―and yourself―that you are capable of taking charge and achieving more requires insight and courage. Lead from the Outside is the handbook for outsiders, written with an eye toward the challenges that hinder women, people of color, the working class, members of the LGBTQ community, and millennials ready to make change. Stacey uses her hard-won insights to break down how ambition, fear, money, and failure function in leadership, and she includes practical exercises to help you realize your own ambition and hone your skills. Lead from the Outside discusses candidly what Stacey has learned over the course of her impressive career in politics, business and the nonprofit world: that differences in race, gender, and class provide vital strength, which we can employ to rise to the top and create real and lasting change.
About the Moderator:
Alexis D. Griffith-Waye is currently the Director of Employee Learning and Development at the Center for Workplace Development for Harvard University. She is a dynamic learning and development professional skilled in designing learning strategies aligned to business imperatives, supporting organizational and professional goals, and boosting performance levels. Alexis has delivered end-to-end learning services throughout North America and globally in management, leadership, sales, professional development, technology, diversity, and compliance.
Never one to shy away from conducting training and speaking engagements, Alexis has delivered countless workshops in leadership, sales, diversity, and more. She recently spoke at the Ivy Conference on Management and Leadership Development at Dartmouth College and has been a longtime guest lecturer at Illinois Benedictine University for their Learning and Development and Diversity (MBA/MOB) programs.