In her keynote address to the Carol Emmott Foundation Fellows annual conference for women leaders in health, CCL Senior Research Scientist Marcia Dawkins shared 3 stories about fortitude and leadership: a “story about fortitude,” a “story about burnout,” and a “story about you.”
Drawing on 20 years of communication research on identity, storytelling, and strategy, Dawkins offered a kaleidoscope of well-researched perspectives that directly and indirectly address how boundaries are negotiated in today’s social and organizational cultures — including tales of an unhoused college-dropout turned CEO, a traumatized introvert turned rock star, and an orphan turned matriarch. Dawkins retells their interconnected sagas, all the while reconciling these stories with an emerging model of fortitude. Finding value in experiences of the underestimated and underrepresented, she shows how boundaries and resilient leadership are defined, debated, imposed, confounded, and created every single day.
Marcia also led a custom workshop at the conference, based on multimodal communication methodology. Participants responded to prompts based on music, art, or writing and shared them back with the larger Foundation Fellow community.
About the Carol Emmott Foundation
The Carol Emmott Foundation is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving fully inclusive gender equity in healthcare leadership and governance. Learn more about the Carol Emmott Foundation.
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At the Center for Creative Leadership, our drive to create a ripple effect of positive change underpins everything we do. For 50+ years, we’ve pioneered leadership development solutions for leaders at every level, from community leaders to CEOs. Consistently ranked among the top global providers of executive education, our research-based programs and solutions inspire individuals at every level in organizations across the world — including 2/3 of the Fortune 1000 — to ignite remarkable transformations.
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