This virtual program is hosted by the Pacific Northwest Organization Development Network. MNODN members can register for this partner program as usual, using the links below.
Program Description:
This 90-minute session will challenge the assumption that working with women particularly racialized, neurodivergent, and system-disrupting women is what makes inclusion hard. The real difficulty lies in organizational systems built on dominance, compliance, and erasure.
Through the lens of matriarchal governance, relational intelligence, strategic refusal, and care-based accountability this session offers OD practitioners actionable frameworks for redesigning systems that support rather than silence. Participants will leave with tools to shift workplace culture from extraction to reciprocity, from control to collective strength anchored in equity, not performance optics.
Learning Objectives for this Session
Identify how traditional workplace structures are shaped by patriarchal and ableist norms.
Analyze how underrepresented women are systematically excluded, co-opted, or punished.
Examine matriarchal governance principles as models for structural care and non-hierarchical leadership.
Apply equity-centered design strategies to organizational policy and culture.
Develop interventions that do not require marginalized women to assimilate in order to survive.
Speaker: Lovette Jallow will be joining all the way from Sweden! Lovette's work has earned national and international awards for leadership in anti-racism, neurodiversity, and systemic inclusion, spanning government, education, and civil society.