CompassPoint partnered with ProInspire and Leadership Learning Community to reflect on what has shifted and what has remained constant in the leadership development field and social change sector over the last five years, from the start of the pandemic to this current political moment.
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CompassPoint Project Director Simone Thelemaque looks back on her journey into leadership and reflects on how being witnessed, listened to, and invited in by others became a catalyst for her stepping into her own power.
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CompassPoint Executive Director Shannon Ellis reflects on the overlapping crises of this political moment and invites everyone in progressive organizations and the social change sector to consider how we can tap into the creative side of our power.
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CompassPoint’s Black affinity group members convened for their first publicized dialogue about (pro-)Black leadership: what it means, why it matters, and how our organization is deepening our commitment to it.
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"There's been this experience of the invisibility of Black feminist thinkers, of Black women-identified intellectuals in general, especially those who are talking about power and oppression, and now I don't have to keep them hidden." CompassPoint's very own Joe Jackson reflects on incorporating Black feminist theory and unpacking power, privilege, and oppression in a new leadership development program, "Building Equitable & Just Organizations Through Individual & Relational Practices."
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As we shift our systems towards a bottom line that includes people and the planet, finance professionals from non-traditional backgrounds can step into these roles without having to unlearn practices that have held back our economy and in turn our society for so long.
As we all find ourselves being pushed, challenged, and transformed by this moment in time, it should be no surprise that dominant culture habits may be creeping back into our work, our teams, and our organizations.
How can an organization build equity in its compensation process through distributed leadership? This piece will share how CompassPoint empowered a peer-led group to provide review and oversight to a compensation process that was designed to build more equity into our system.
In this blog, we explore how CompassPoint worked to create a more equitable approach to compensation by updating our systems to reflect new values, simplifying the career framework, making the pay gap smaller, and restructuring how compensation decisions are made.
Compensation is where our values are tested, our willingness to take (real or perceived) organizational risks is codified, and ultimately where decisions are made that directly affect people’s livelihood. That’s why we’re going a little deeper and sharing our story of reimagining compensation at CompassPoint over the next three blogs.
