Jessica Hickman argues that upstander leaders learn to confront bullying, discrimination, and casual racism while unlearning their own biases and toxic habits. She describes how self-limiting beliefs, like a friend who wouldn't apply for a job because she planned to take maternity leave, hold people back from workplace success.
Chapters
Number 3 is the power of learning. So leaning in as an upstander leader and learning about topics that sometimes make us uncomfortable— bullying, harassment, discrimination, and everything you're speaking about in this space. But also, unlearning is so important, and I don't think we spend time really putting attention on our own unconscious biases, our upbringings, our beliefs, and our toxic language that we've learned in previous workplace or through our families. That can be casual racism, You know, even had a friend recently that believed she was unworthy of going for a job because she wanted to take maternity leave in the future. Yeah. So sometimes we can limit our own success. So I talk about, you know, a whole chapter on learning and, and why that's important to our success in the workplace.