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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.
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This session covers how to protect voting rights in America and how recent trends to restrict voting are jeopardizing America’s democracy. This discussion includes a historical overview of voting rights in the U.S. and action items to support access to voting in our communities.
Fatimah has spent many years volunteering as an attorney for Election Protection, which is a non-partisan organization that works to secure people’s voting rights and access to the polls.
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Much in life can be learned from understanding common mistakes made when negotiating. When striving to become a better negotiator, it is helpful to explore negotiation tools and tips in light of what typically derails negotiations. This talk highlights how to avoid pitfalls when seeking to gain leverage and influence to advance career or business objectives, which is critical in becoming a master negotiator.
This session’s interactive features offer an opportunity for participants to explore the broader career and business implications of their negotiation styles when engaging with colleagues and clients, and when aiming to become more effective leaders in business.
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This discussion introduces the term “White Welfare” that’s detailed in the innovative and groundbreaking book Race Rules – What Your Black Friend Won’t Tell You. White Welfare is broader than white privilege and involves the historical, policy, and societal framework at the heart of race-based wealth and opportunity gaps and America’s caste system.
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We need to reposition how we think of “allyship,” what effective allyship looks like, and how taking action is a critical factor in driving equity. This session explores how to effectively disrupt racism, strengthen your ability to form genuine relationships across race, and proactively live your values beyond recognizing that racism is bad – including tangible tools and action steps to drive equity.
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Want to have more influence over your career? Begin to explore what you can do to better drive your future and career. Ignite your thinking and start considering how to expand your influencing skills. This session is a launching pad to begin thinking about the types of factors that impact your ability to influence others and gain leverage throughout your career.
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Fatimah Gilliam is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Bedrock Race Rule – 3-Step Process to Making Equitable Decisions & Navigating Difficult Issues for 21st Century Leaders, Democracy, Voting Rights & Jim Crow 2.0, How to Become a Master Negotiator, White Welfare – Leveraging History to Drive Equity & Transition Beyond Allyship, Effective Allyship & Unlearning Racism and Controlling Careers through Influencing Skills. The estimated speaking fee range to book Fatimah Gilliam for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Fatimah Gilliam generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Ijeoma Oluo, Dr. Kimberly Harden, Deanna Singh, Christine Michel Carter and Carin Taylor. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Fatimah Gilliam for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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