Fatimah Gilliam

This interactive leadership session explores the skills and tools in the innovative and groundbreaking book Race Rules – What Your Black Friend Won’t Tell You that provides tips and tools on cross-racial interactions in people’s personal and professional lives. This book introduces a straightforward, universal 3-step framework to unlearn racism, drive equity, and challenge misconceptions.

This decision-making framework is helpful for anyone who values effective leadership, management, and interpersonal skills. It can help keep organizations relevant and sustainable in a diversifying global society and workplace with leaders, employees, clients, and customers from a broad range of backgrounds.

This Bedrock Race Rule is a real-time 3-step process for when navigating uncertainty in how to proceed, interact, or behave across race. It helps people when facing difficulty with hot topics, polarizing issues, uncomfortable conversations, or struggling with what to think, say, or do.

The interactive discussion addresses:

• How to use the Bedrock Race Rule to drive equity, improve business and leadership decisions, and strengthen personal and professional relationships.
• Successfully navigating polarizing issues.
• Effective allyship and leadership for modern-day leaderships and professionals.
• Real-time decision making to align impact with intent.