Dr. Kathy Obear

Organizational Development Consulting

  • Home
  • Meet Kathy
  • Events
  • Work With Kathy
    • Design & Facilitate Powerful EDI Workshops
    • References
    • Workshops
      • Foundations of Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice
      • Creating Inclusive, Socially Just Campus Environments
      • Deepening Multicultural Competencies: Strategies for Professional Development
      • Training of Trainers Program to Design and Facilitate Workshops on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
      • Developing a Team of Inclusion Practitioners
      • Facilitating Difficult Dialogues: Navigating Triggering Events
      • White Ally Development Program
  • Resources
    • Free Courses/Webinars
    • Blog
    • Radio Show
    • Books
      • Leading White Accountability Groups
      • In It For The Long Haul
      • …But I’m Not Racist
      • Turn The Tide
        • Book Worksheets
    • Access to our Facilitation and Design Knowledge Base
  • Contact
  • Recent Clients
☰
  • Home
  • Meet Kathy
  • Events
  • Work With Kathy
    • Design & Facilitate Powerful EDI Workshops
    • References
    • Workshops
      • Foundations of Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice
      • Creating Inclusive, Socially Just Campus Environments
      • Deepening Multicultural Competencies: Strategies for Professional Development
      • Training of Trainers Program to Design and Facilitate Workshops on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
      • Developing a Team of Inclusion Practitioners
      • Facilitating Difficult Dialogues: Navigating Triggering Events
      • White Ally Development Program
  • Resources
    • Free Courses/Webinars
    • Blog
    • Radio Show
    • Books
      • Leading White Accountability Groups
      • In It For The Long Haul
      • …But I’m Not Racist
      • Turn The Tide
        • Book Worksheets
    • Access to our Facilitation and Design Knowledge Base
  • Contact
  • Recent Clients
  • Diversity,  Diversity training,  Inclusion,  Social Justice

    Can you spot microaggressions around you?

    February 27, 2018 /

    “You have a Master’s degree…really?” asks your co-worker incredulously as she is speaking with a colleague of color. Maybe you’ve uttered (or thought) a similar statement to a person of color, not intending to hurt them, but attempting – in your own racist way – to pay them a roundabout compliment? Intended or not, you’re guilty of microaggressions – a snub or insult directed at a marginalized group member that communicates hostile, derogatory or negative messages. I can hear you protest rather loudly: But I didn’t mean it that way! Maybe not. Society and our environment has groomed us to believe comments like this are acceptable. And if the person…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    Come Experience Envision 2020: The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Virtual Conference

    March 3, 2020
    Inclusion Lens

    Strategies for Leaders to Use an Inclusion Lens in Crisis Management

    May 15, 2020
    Interrupt racism | Racist behaviors | Racist attitudes | Racist beliefs

    Can You Recognize Your Own Racist Beliefs?

    January 25, 2018
  • Microaggressions | microaggressions in the workplace, interrupt microaggressions
    Diversity training,  Social Justice

    Microaggressions: Sounds Small But Hurts Big

    February 20, 2018 /

    You read the word “micro” and you may immediately judge that it must be something small. It may sound like nothing, but its impact is SOMETHING. Microagressions is a term Harvard University professor Chester M. Pierce originated in 1970 to name the insults he witnessed that were doled out regularly upon African Americans by those who were not black – in particular, by whites. As the old saying goes: the more things change, the more they stay the same. Decades have passed since then, but we’re still faced with microagressions and may not even realize it. It’s those everyday messages that come in the form of verbal or nonverbal slights,…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    Interrupt racism | Racist behaviors | Racist attitudes | Racist dynamics

    So You Were Called Racist. Now What?

    February 15, 2018
    Disconnect Between Your Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Goals

    Is there a Disconnect Between Your Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Goals – and What’s Actually Happening?

    June 5, 2018
    facilitator

    5 Easy Tips & Tools for Facilitators

    November 13, 2019

Tune In

Transformation and Change Radio, Featured on the #1 positive talk radio network.

Click here to learn more about the Transformation and Change Radio show.


Get Kathy’s Books!

Click any of the images below for downloads of Kathy's books, or order your hard copy on Amazon.

Leading White Accountability Groups

Leading White Accountability Groups

In It For the Long Haul

Image of book: In It For The Long Haul. Click to download your copy.

…But I’m Not Racist!

Image of book: But I'm Not Racist. Click to download your copy.

Turn The Tide

Image of book: Turn The Tide. Click to download your copy.

Recent Blog Posts

  • Managing Hiring and Layoffs? Use an Equity Lens
  • Using Whiteness Accountability Spaces to Disrupt and Unlearn Racial Biases & Actions
  • How to Design an Online Training Session on Foundational EDI

Free Courses by Dr. Kathy Obear

Leading White Accountability Groups. Click here for free course access.
Navigating Difficult Situations. Click here for free course access.

Certifications

MBICert
2025 The Center for Transformation and Change | Dr. Kathy Obear © | All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy |Site by Marketecs
Ashe Theme by WP Royal.