Catalyzing Your Culture: Creating Organizational Change

with Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew

This two-part, interactive workshop is designed to help organizations prepare for and implement changes in organizational culture to create spaces of belonging for leaders, staff, audiences, and stakeholders.

Suggested audience: CEOs/Executive Directors, Executive team, and Board leadership

Part 1: Barriers to Change 
October 26, 2023, 10am to 12pm

What’s getting in the way of the change you’d like to see in your organization? Change happens in non-profit organizations either too quickly or too slowly, but the process often isn’t managed well. Learn more about tools that can assist in creating the change you’d like to see. In this session, we will learn more about the Immunity to Change process by Harvard professors and authors Kegan and Lahey as well as the work of Ronald Heifetz on Adaptive Leadership. Prepare to discover how our unconscious beliefs hold us back from moving forward!

Suggested Pre-Read: The Real Reason People Won’t Change, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey (Harvard Business Review, November 2021)

Part 2: Facilitating Organizational Change to Create Spaces of Belonging
November 9, 2023, 10am to 12pm

To create an organizational culture of belonging, we must create spaces that are intentional for everyone to be affirmed, seen, heard, and valued. The culture of your organization has an impact on your internal operations affecting staff, morale, well-being, and productivity. It also has an impact on your external relationships in the community that can limit your board recruitment and outreach efforts. This session builds on the first workshop and examines how your organization’s culture could be a barrier to change and ultimately, your growth.

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Meet the Instructor

Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew
Building meaningful and fruitful collaborations for the betterment of the community is what Dr. Booker Drew has spearheaded for years. Froswa’ Booker-Drew, Ph.D. is a Network Weaver who believes relationships are the key to our personal, professional, and organizational growth. She has been quoted/featured in Forbes, Ozy, Bustle, Huffington Post, Modern Luxury, and other media outlets, due to her extensive background in leadership, nonprofit management, philanthropy, partnership development, training, and education.

She is the CEO of Soulstice Consultancy, LLC providing belonging and inclusion support, leadership training, community engagement strategies, and philanthropic/partnership guidance for local and national institutions, and the CEO of R2 Foundation (Restoration and Reconciliation Foundation) providing support for Black-led nonprofits.

Formerly the Vice President of Community Affairs for the State Fair of Texas, Froswa’ was responsible for grantmaking, educational programming, and community initiatives. More than 70% of organizations funded were led by people of color. As the previous National Community Engagement Director for World Vision, she served as a catalyst, partnership broker, and builder of the capacity of local partners in multiple locations across the US to improve and sustain the well-being of children and their families.  She is also co-founder of HERitage Giving Circle, one of the first Black Women Giving Circles in the state of Texas, and co-founder of both Power in Action-Dallas and the South Dallas Employment Project.

Dr. Booker-Drew was a part of the documentary, Friendly Captivity, a film that follows a cast of 7 women from Dallas to India. She is the recipient of several honors including the 2023 Texas Women’s Foundation Maura Women Helping Women Awards, City Square Hometown Hero Award (2022), 2020 Each Moment Matters Awardee, 2020 Dallas Leadership Foundation’s Leadership Award, WFAA’s While I Have Your Attention (2020), 2020 TEDxSMU speaker, 2019 Dallas Business Journal’s Women in Business honoree, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. Global Big Heart 2014, 2012 Outstanding African American Alumni Award from the University of Texas at Arlington, 2009 Woman of the Year Award by Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. and was awarded Diversity Ambassador for the American Red Cross (2012).

Froswa’ graduated with a Ph.D. from Antioch University in Leadership and Change with a focus on social capital, diverse women, change management, and relational leadership. She attended the Jean Baker Miller Institute at Wellesley for training in Relational Cultural Theory and has completed facilitator training on Immunity to Change based on the work of Kegan and Lahey of Harvard. She has also completed training through UNICEF on Equity-Based Evaluations.

Booker-Drew is currently an adjunct professor at Tulane University in the Master of Public Administration Program teaching the course, Governance, Leadership, and Sustainability, and is an affiliate faculty member at the Graduate School of Leadership and Change, Antioch University.  She has also been an adjunct professor at the University of North Texas at Dallas, the University of Texas at Arlington, and Capital Seminary and Graduate School.   She is the host of the podcast, The Tapestry, and author of 3 books for women, Fly Away, Ready for a Revolution: 30 Days to Jolt Your Life, and Rules of Engagement: Making Connections Last. Her latest book, Empowering Charity, published by Baylor University Press, was listed as #1 on Book Authority for Books on Charity in 2022 and received the Silver Nautilus Book Award. Froswa’ serves on multiple boards including ACLU-Texas, Buckner International, For Oak Cliff, Engage Dallas, and Soul Rep Theater Company.  She was a workshop presenter at the United Nations in 2013 on the Access to Power and in 2021, trained the Humphrey Fellows, a program of the US State Department. She has been a contributor for several publications globally, including as an advice columnist for professional women in The Business Woman Media, a global platform based in Australia and as an inspirational columnist for Texas Metro News.

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