Author: Mary-Frances Winters

Anti-racism is new territory for many leaders. Some may not have fully understood what they were signing up for when they vowed to address anti-Black racism. Now that we are almost a year since George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter protests, leaders are needing to make good on the declarations they made, and they are running into resistance. While pushback was to be expected, I don’t think that leaders gave enough attention to how they were going to address it. The Winters Group has recently introduced 5 leadership commitments that we think are critical to creating anti-racist organizations.