Welcome Message

This month we confront the real heart of workplace harm: power.

Who controls it.
Who benefits from it.
Who carries the cost of it.

Many leadership models reward hierarchy, gatekeeping, and control. But justice-led leadership demands something radically different: shared responsibility, transparent decision-making, and collective accountability.

You cannot create inclusion while protecting power structures that demand conformity, silence, or loyalty at the expense of wellbeing.

This is the month where we ask:

Who gets to lead — and why?

Your Learning Tools for Month Three

The Cost of Leadership — Reflection Workbook

• Guided journaling for leadership teams to name power structures inside your organisation.

• Topics include:

  • Who defines leadership here?

  • Whose leadership is validated, whose is dismissed?

  • Where influence lives (formally & informally).

  • Who carries emotional labour in your organisation?

  • What collective accountability requires.

📥 Download Reflection Workbook

Leadership Power Mapping Exercise — Who Holds Power & Who Pays The Price

• An interactive audit tool to map where leadership decisions sit, who has real access to power, and who remains locked out.

• Helps your team see:

  • Who controls hiring, budgets, and strategy

  • Who carries the most risk when challenging leadership

  • Where marginalised employees remain excluded from decision-making tables

• Includes leadership scoring & next steps to redesign power-sharing models.

📥 Download Power Mapping Exercise

Journal Prompt — Personal Power Reflection

Prompt:

“What power do I hold — and how does it impact others?”

• Use as private reflection or leadership coaching exercise.

• Guides leaders to name their own privileges, voice, influence, and areas where harm may have been caused.

📥 Download Journal Prompt

Glossary Snapshot — Power & Leadership Terms

• Power Hoarding

• Leadership Privilege

• Gatekeeping

• Accountable Leadership

• Emotional Labour

📥 Download Glossary Snapshot

🔑Why This Month Matters

Without dismantling how power operates, every inclusion effort eventually collapses under the weight of hierarchy and harm.

This month is your opportunity to reimagine power not as control — but as responsibility.