Glossary

Adaptive Leadership

A leadership approach that involves diagnosing, interrupting, and innovating as a means of creating capabilities that align with the aspirations of an organization. Includes management of self, multiple perspectives and leveraging formal and informal authority for change.

Allyship

A lifelong process of building trust based relationships, through consistency, and accountability with individuals and/or groups of people. Maybe self-appointed, but must be validated by those you seek to being in relationship with.

Accomplice

A person who takes and active role, particular in "disruptive” or “rule breaking” behavior. This is not a self-proclaimed attribution.

Colorblind

A state being where a group or individual refuses to acknowledge racial classification or does not believe that racism has an affect a person's socially created opportunities.

Community

A feeling of ownership, being in group, sense of belonging based upon a geographical location or commonality.

Culture

Achievements, customs, arts and social constructs of a group.

Empowerment

Authority given temporarily or systemically to a group or individual.

Engagement

An event or gathering. Event relationships, a touch point.

Ethnicity

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Implicit Bias

Unconscious attitudes and stereotypes, results from the tendency to process information based on unconscious associations and feelings. (Ladder of Inference)

Inclusion

The practice or policy of providing access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized.

Intersectionality

Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. The term was conceptualized and coined by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989.

Kuleana

A uniquely Hawaiian value and practice which is loosely translated to mean "responsibility." A reciprocal relationship between the person who is responsible, and the thing which they are responsible for.

Mental Models

An individual or group’s thought process about how something works in the real world.

Microaggression

A statement, action, or incident regarded as an instance of indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group such as a racial or ethnic minority.

Oppression

Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control. (Internalized Oppression, Trauma)

Participant

Someone involved in temporarily or consistently in a process. It It is of note that participation may or may not be consensual or a conscious act.

Pono

A Hawaiian word meaning goodness, uprightness, morality, correct or proper procedure, excellence, well-being, prosperity, welfare, benefit, behalf, equity, sake, true condition or nature, duty; moral, fitting, proper, righteous, right, upright, just, virtuous, fair, beneficial, successful, in perfect order, accurate, correct, eased, relieved; should, ought, must, necessary.

Race

A social construct developed to systemically categorize people and distribute power and privilege to people of European descent. (White Advantage, White Privilege, Racial Superiority)

Racism

Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group; especially people of African descent.

the “other”

A person that is different from or not present in the group.