Inclusion isn't Passive, it's Grabbing the Rope and Refusing to Let Go

Leading with Conscious Inclusion in a World in Flux

By Joanne Lockwood (she/her) FIEDP FRSA FPSA

Written from lived experience, not from the sidelines.

They say progress is like holding a rope: sometimes you feel you’re being dragged backwards, hands raw with effort, hope fraying thin. Each time I speak to a room full of leaders—be they Rotarians, executives, or community conveners—that’s the metaphor I re…