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  • Home
  • Meet Kathy
  • Events
  • Work With Kathy
    • Upcoming Events
    • Inclusion Partner Program: Strategic Leadership Development
    • Facilitation and Design Master Course
      • Access to our Facilitation and Design Knowledge Base
    • Your Year of Transformation
    • References
    • Consulting Services
      • Recent Clients
    • Workshops
      • Self-Care and Healing for Change Agents: Renewing, Rejuvenating, and Recommitting
      • Analyzing Programs and Services with an Inclusive Lens
      • 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
  • Radio Show
  • Resources
    • Books
    • In It For The Long Haul
      • Self Care Assessment
      • Take the Hot Button Quiz
    • …But I’m Not Racist
      • But I’m Not Racist… Quiz
      • Book Club
    • TURN THE TIDE
      • Book Worksheets
      • Lunch and Learn Staff Training Program
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  • Contact
    • Dilemmas
  • pandemic COVID 19 innovation
    Life Lessons,  Professional Development,  Self-Care,  Social Justice

    COVID Pandemic: A Threat to EDI Efforts – or an Opportunity for Leaders to Innovate?

    Kathy Obear / June 12, 2020 / 0 Comments

    “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” ― Kenji Miyazawa   Our mission as change agents has never been tougher. The global crisis caused by the pandemic has affected…

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  • Life Lessons,  Navigating triggers,  Professional Development,  Self-Care

    In Life, Change Is the Only Certainty

    Kathy Obear / March 23, 2020 / 0 Comments

    In what seemed an instant, our lives were changed. Most of us still have the look on our faces of a deer caught in the blinding glare of oncoming headlights. Our faces show…

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  • emotional intelligence
    Creating change,  Diversity,  Life Lessons,  Professional Development

    Emotional Intelligence: Your Key to Navigating Difficult Situations

    Kathy Obear / January 22, 2020 / 0 Comments

    We all know what IQ is: a rating of your intelligence based on test results. But how about Emotional Intelligence? Do you know how you rate? Do you know what it is? Simply…

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  • self-care
    Creating change,  Life Lessons,  Self-Care

    Bad-Ass Change Agents: Self Care Isn’t Selfish

    Kathy Obear / December 18, 2019 / 1 Comment

    We can be our own worst enemies.   We take on tasks we don’t have time for, that aren’t even our responsibility. We work too many hours, cut back on sleep and stuff…

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  • Stress | Triggering Situations
    Hot Buttons,  Life Lessons,  Navigating triggers

    Stress Influences Our Reactions to Triggering Events

    Kathy Obear / September 26, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Ever pay attention that when life goes smoothly, nothing much bothers you? And you think, yeah, I’ve ‘fixed’ all my problems…you feel pretty good about yourself – and about your ability to handle…

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  • Change Agent | Inclusion | Justice
    Creating change,  Life Lessons,  Living my calling,  Self-Care,  Social Justice

    Having to dig deep today as a change agent

    Kathy Obear / December 21, 2017 / 0 Comments

    As a change agent, I have committed my life to teaching and sharing the skills and strategies to navigate difficult situations and create truly inclusive, socially just organizations while maintaining the passion and…

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  • equal rights advocate, change agent, activist
    Life Lessons,  Self-Care

    5 Practical Strategies to Overcome Burnout When You’re a Change Agent

    Kathy Obear / October 3, 2017 / 0 Comments

    Social Justice Change Agents, Can You Relate? Burnout. Passion fatigue. It’s something I’m seeing a lot more of these days. And yes, bad-ass change agents, I’m seeing it in you, too. You’re on…

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  • Life Lessons,  Navigating triggers

    Increase Your Effectiveness: Pointers to Help You Navigate Challenging Situations

    Kathy Obear / April 6, 2017 / 0 Comments

    In a recent post, I talked briefly about what to do when you encounter a challenging situation. Now, I’m going deeper into this topic with pointers to help you respond more effectively.  …

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  • Life Lessons,  Navigating triggers

    What To Do When Your Buttons Get Pushed: Tools To Help You Respond In Difficult Situations

    Kathy Obear / March 31, 2017 / 0 Comments

    Tell me if this sounds familiar. You’re at work when someone says something that rubs you the wrong way. It takes you off guard. Now you’re hooked…and before you realize it, you’ve said…

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  • Life Lessons

    Lessons from a Cockroach

    Kathy Obear / October 6, 2015 / 0 Comments

    I have always hated cockroaches and so imagine my revulsion as I saw THE BIGGEST COCKROACH EVER as I left the gym just now. I thought to crush it, then had a moment…

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  • COVID Pandemic: A Threat to EDI Efforts – or an Opportunity for Leaders to Innovate?

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