039 The Gay Leadership Dude Shares How To Be An Effective Leader & Ally

Diversity Alliance Talks

"You can’t have authenticity without courage”

Dr. Steve Yacovelli has been in the leadership, learning and development, change management, and diversity and inclusion consulting space pretty much his whole career (about twenty-five years). In his consulting experience he’s seen some leaders completely excel in their effectiveness, and some completely crash and burn due to their lack of competence in leadership skills. Steve’s desire was to help both types of leaders be more effective, through coaching, formal and informal training, and just generally being there to support their "leadershippiness."

A few years ago, Steve realised that the focus on specifically developing LGBTQ+ Leaders wasn’t really top of mind for many organisations. So, “The Gay Leadership Dude™” was born. It’s Steve’s brand to “come out” and acknowledge the role he wants to take to give back to the LGBTQ+ Community and awesome Allies: to serve as a “lightning rod” of sorts to start a movement to grow LGBTQ+ Leaders and Allies to be even more effective, in a consistent, thoughtful, and mindful manner, especially those up-and-coming Leaders within the broader movement for equality and fairness for all LGBTQ+ people and well beyond.

Steve shares many truth bombs and is so generous and open with his knowledge and experience it was a real pleasure to catch up with him. This is not an episode to miss if you are in a leadership or consider yourself a DEI Ally!

We cover:

• Realising we are all educators and how to harness that
• The 6 competencies leadership (with a rainbow lens)
• The five layers of diversity
• The problem with "silent collusion"

RESOURCES:

https://topdoglearning.learnworlds.com/

Pride Leadership Strategies (Book)