Leadership 2020 Blog

The Leadership 2020 program builds leadership knowledge, skills, and capacity for those in BC’s social services sector. The Leadership 2020 blog contains posts, articles, and resources from the Leadership 2020 newsletter. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.

2020 Reflections – Thinking about the other

We believe that Leadership 2020 is much more than a leadership training program. Sure, it builds the leadership capacity of individual participants just as other programs do. But more fundamentally, […]

Working Through Our Implicit Biases

by Tessa Charlesworth, for Leadership 2020 (copyright) I research implicit intergroup biases and prejudices across the age span, and yet every day I experience at least one moment where my […]

One Native Life by Richard Wagamese

Gina Robertson from Victoria Native Friendship Centre and Indigenous Focus Cohort 1 introduced me to the work of Richard Wagamese, an Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in Northwestern Ontario. […]

2020 Resources – TED Talks for Enhanced Understanding

Those of you who have participated in leadership 2020 know how much I am a fan of TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) talks. If you are unfamiliar with TED, all […]

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People (Part Two)

Last week I shared Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald’s premise that we all carry hidden biases (blindspots and mindbugs) resulting “from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, […]