What is it about?

A collaborative autoethnography discussing the challenges of authentic leadership praxis for women of color who lead in predominantly white spaces.

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Why is it important?

Authentic Leadership does not pay close attention to diversity and difference, it assumes that any one who wants to is able to "be thyself and to thine own self be true" without recognizing how people of color are judged differently - for example, behaving authentically can translate into being branded the angry black woman even when the context calls for righteous anger.

Perspectives

Engaging in this writing helped me to recognize and acknowledge the limits of authentic leadership in practice, and make space for perspicacious behavior modification (i.e. code switching) necessary to survive as a black woman in predominantly white spaces.

Dr Faith Wambura Ngunjiri
Concordia College

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This page is a summary of: Problematizing Authentic Leadership: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Immigrant Women of Color Leaders in Higher Education, Advances in Developing Human Resources, October 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1523422317728735.
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