Neil shares the most important evidence-based competencies a leader needs to embody for work and career success. Driven by a video posted on social media that could be easily interpreted as "angry black woman", Neil makes it clear how leaders can sabotage their own career without careful attention to their choices and responses.

Neil Edwards is the host of The Leadership Range, he is a mindset coach who works with leaders on the four dimensions that determine their future: leadership, relationships, well-being and inclusion. His clients are on a journey to become increasingly inclusive, confident leaders, who are moving from leading some to leading everyone. He believes to become a great leader requires a willingness to challenge fixed beliefs, blind spots and shadows, biases, fears, old habits, and much or the rationalizations that profoundly keep leaders stuck.

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Neil draws a distinction between power and privilege. It is an invitation to everyone to own their natural and equal power. He illustrates with examples of how to notice the difference between privilege and power using slavery, Hollywood, and Jeopardy. To close, Neil invites those with privilege to consider who they are as gatekeepers.

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Neil discusses how words get in the way of advancing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts. He uses the old childhood rhyme “Sticks and Stones” to highlight the error many were taught at an early age. In this episode he uses two scenarios to outline harmful and unproductive behaviors present in J.E.D.I work and invites leaders to be more relationally intelligent in their interactions in service of advancing racial justice.

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Neil uses the reality of online dating and the wisdom of Organizational Relationship Systems Intelligence to explain what is arguably the most intractable problem corporations face after recruiting Black and brown employees. Retention. He lays out in clear terms, and offers a path out of this quagmire for corporations, Black job seekers, and Black employees. For executives and D&I leaders in large organizations Neil puts out an invitation to save millions of dollars with a simple change in mindset and action.

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Neil uses concepts from Co-Active Leadership and Relationship Systems Intelligence, findings and facts from leadership research, and a personal example to illustrate how racism is expressed by well-meaning white people as dangerous blindspot, yet an everyday experience for Black people. He offers an invitation to leaders and organizations interested in moving the needle on corporate diversity and inclusion efforts with specific focus on anti-Black racism.

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Neil uses Relationship Systems Intelligence to illustrate why we cannot expect predominantly white corporate cultures to be more Black. In this episode he outlines what to expect and how to respond to racial aggression through a systems-informed lens. He shares benefits of becoming a system-oriented leader through developing Relationship Systems Intelligence. 

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Neil lays out a behavior that doubles down on the already damaging nature of so-called microaggressions. It is a triggered response when generally well-meaning people are faced with the reality that they are the source of a microaggression or their racism is exposed at work. Listen to get a step-by-step approach to managing these situations and transforming a potentially horrible circumstance into a life-affirming experience.

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