The UnLeading Project

In a time of great loss, change, crisis, and regeneration, Hospicing Leadership: Leading Through Crisis, Loss, and Grief explores what it means to turn towards grief, to recognize and honour its presence, and to consider what it means to be with grief and metabolize it into something else. In a time of unprecedented levels of grief, we explore what it means to lead in ways that tend to individual...

In Abolitionist Leadership: Towards Restoration, Love, and Liberation, we dive into the logics of carcerality that are deeply entrenched in schooling and society. These are logics of dehumanization that deem some people disposable, guilty, and dangerous to protect the claimed innocence and supposed safety of others. Join us for a conversation that unpacks these logics, challenges false binaries of...

In Leading Against Neoliberalism and Privatization, we consider how neoliberalism, capitalism, and privatization concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a few, posing serious threats to the public good. These forces operate broadly across society, impacting healthcare, housing, job security, labour rights, and the weakening of unions. In education, neoliberal and privatization agendas manifes...

Leading for Linguistic Justice and Language Revitalization explores the ways in which narrow conceptions of language, notions of “standard” English, and accent discrimination maintain systems of white supremacy and colonialism. We consider how our understandings of language change our access to thinking and being in schools, communities, and the academy. This podcasts challenges Eurocentricity and...

Technologies of Leadership recognize that technology, like leadership, is not neutral. We will explore leadership as we move away from the Information Age towards the Age of Intelligence. We consider what it means to lead in a time of constant change, technological opportunities and innovative possibilities, but also in a time of unprecedented surveillance, an often unregulated technology sector,...

In this podcast, we consider the tensions, complicities, and complexities of cross-racial and other solidarities in leadership, as well as opportunities for collective liberation that emerge through these solidarities. This podcast highlights the intersectional nature of multiple systems of oppression and the relational nature of racialization within a system of white supremacy and settler colonia...

In this podcast, we explore what it means to lead for climate justice as an intersectional and deeply relational approach to the present climate crisis. We consider the differential impact of the climate crisis on local and global communities, the existential and physical threats of the climate crisis, and how we might learn from and be in better relation with the nonhuman world. We acknowledge th...

In this podcast we explore the connections between our inner lives and our outer presence and work in the world. We consider how our fears, fantasies, desires and worries all influence who we are and how we lead. Panelists share their thoughts on the significance of awareness, healing, embodiment, joy and creativity in leading and living. Finally, we discuss how we might apply our understandings a...

In this podcast we consider what it means to lead toward disability justice in our thinking, in our practice, in our relations, and in our institutions. This framework was coined by disabled queer women of colour activists in 2005 and we consider how we might move towards this framework in education. Our panelists share in imagining what schools and communities might look like if they were designe...

In this podcast, we highlight experiences, realities and identities that are often invisible or intentionally ignored in explorations of equity and anti-oppression today. We consider how the racialization of particular identities simultaneously leads to invisibility and hyper-visibility, both of which are dehumanizing experiences in leadership. This podcast takes us to a place of reimagining, recl...

Welcome to the Critical Spirituality in Leadership Podcast as part of the UnLeading Project. In this podcast, we explore leadership as a practice of continual critical self-reflection, healing, and the embracing of inner life. We consider what it means to embrace the whole self as a human becoming, rather than a human being, and how we might face tensions, paradox, and interconnections with all th...

Welcome to the Queering Leadership Podcast as part of the UnLeading Project. In this podcast, we explore the possibilities of leadership that is informed by a commitment to collective liberation, an embracing of the body, desire and pleasure, and an engagement with the unknown, the diffuse and the in-between. As we delve into this conversation, we call into question the very concept of leadership...

Welcome to the Culturally Relevant and Anti-Racist Leadership Podcast as part of the UnLeading Project. In this podcast, we center the knowledge, experiences, and expertise of Indigenous, Black and racialized leaders and make explicit the power relations found at the center of leadership. We name the ways in which efforts to challenge anti-Black racism, anti-Indigenous racism, and other forms of a...

Welcome to the Community-Centered Leadership Podcast as part of The UnLeading Project. In this podcast, we challenge traditional notions of leadership—where it exists, who can be a leader and what constitutes leadership. This conversation explores the ways in which formal leadership continues to harm Indigenous, Black and racialized communities, and how we might disrupt, dismantle, and abolish str...

Welcome to the Decolonizing and Uncolonizing Leadership Podcast as part of the UnLeading Project. In this podcast we explore how we might restore our capacity to lead through a recognition of our interconnectedness, responsibility to each other, and a renewed wholeness as leaders who center love and healing in education. We explore our connections to land, creatures, ancestors and future generatio...