divisiveness in our country our
you want it done. Fran lice
helping John Moore way.
>> When we go from here as a
nation to make the progress we
need to conquer covid and
reinvigorate the economy and by
extension the lives of millions
impacted by this pandemic so
they’re going to be much more
difficult the longer we stay as
divided as we are to how do we
get past that estrangement to
make meaningful progress.
The American leadership Forum
is an organization that’s
equipped to lead the way
founded 40 years ago to join
and strengthen diverse leaders
for the common good among its
core values to use dialogue and
collaboration and service to
the common good as an
undercurrent to all the effort
among the cornerstones of the
organization building trust and
networks among diverse leaders
and motivating leaders to be a
catalyst for community,
positive change. We need that
kind of focus leadership among
our political leaders now here
this morning to talk about ways
we might be able to move
forward nor Angela president of
the American leadership Houston
Gulf Coast, or to a job as a
senior principal it paid 7 page
an left board chair and Judy Le
president and co-founder of
take root LLC that’s an
organization that exist to help
people in teams develop the
skills knowledge and practice
to become changemaker she’s
also board certified. Coach
training leadership development
to Harvard’s Kennedy School of
government masterclass good to
see all of you. This morning
North for starting with you how
effective do you think the L a
philosophy might be in helping
to change the direction of our
country if you were embraced by
some of our national leaders.
>> I think it is very effective
because it allows us to really
understand where other people
are coming from. It helps us to
build deeper relationships
where we use they can leverage
our diversity can be more
inclusive and we can start
working on having a common
purpose.
>> The challenge or it seems to
me is having people who
understand that challenge and
are equipped to move forward
and make the changes necessary
how what kind of leaders to do
you think is going to be
necessary to make that move.
>> It took the leadership we
want is that does that the
leadership that feels and grace
is the accountability to the
>> sharing ideas ensuring the
state first thoughts in
concepts that we all have to
come back to the dinner table
to share with one another so
that sense of accountability
goes both ways accountable to
one another to listen to be
aware to respond to
communicate. Cooperate on
solutions yeah, go ahead.
>> I this is simply saying is
the dialogue goes both ways we
all need to embrace this
accountability duty that all
sounds wonderful marvelous
Arturo argued just did a great
job saying that written on
paper it sounds great as well.
>> But the reality is people
can hear it read say it but
actually putting into put into
actual practice is a challenge
what needs to be down on the
individual level first and then
as a group level to kind of
make these changes.
>> Yeah, I think that we need
to start thinking about how we
think about leadership
differently and you know we
often think about leadership is
the person you have all the
answers and make some decisions
and quite frankly, you know
we’re we’re facing a really
complicated complex
multifaceted problems that
require new warning and so when
we heard we learning that we
need to do to face and you know
these challenges and we’re
asking people to trust each
other to go into certain
environment. And so a lot of
the work. The meeting has to be
about building the trust in
with what I love about the
program is it really focuses on
how we build that trust in this
space for people to not know
the answers to these problems
that work together to try to
figure it out.
>> You know a lot of members of
Congress have been saying in
recent weeks and months and
years a lot of what they’ve
been saying has been aimed and
divided groups everybody is in
a different silo they’re
hearing different things the
same message and is focused on
those individuals. President by
his company’s tried to change
the tone a bit how important is
it you think for the tone to
set the stage nor I know a lot
of time today left we always
come together and we before we
start anything else. I’m an we
get rid of things that get in
the way that this could how
important is it to get stuff
out of the way before you start
talking about serious dialogue.
>> You know I think that is a
really key point for all of us
to really step into our
curiosity about where other
people are coming from what
other people are experiencing.
It’s only in going into that
space and practicing real there
and listening deep listening
will we be heard. We must
create space for other voices
to the surface before we as
leaders start to offer own
voice and I know we’re going
newsmakers S because we have a
lot more to unpack on art as
you get ready to take over as
chair of a left what would you
talk about as the focus of the
group going forward.
>> Individually locally that’s
going to make a difference
national you think ultimately.
>> But still it’s related to
also response to what Norah
just said you 2 previous
question, it’s I think in order
to have a conversation the
dialogue that we’re aiming for
we have to sort of step back
and reaffirm kind of our goals
and objectives as a community
and what we want for our
community our families our
businesses are people. Is sort
of the server refocus the
realignment of those goes in to
find that common thread and
let’s work on that common
thread together we’re going to
talk about how difficult that
might be as we continue on
newsmakers extra folks are
going to be able to join us on the click 2 Houston dot com on