How to Be an Inclusive Leader through rEvolutionary and Adaptive Leadership

Dr. Undraye Howard currently serves as the senior director and special advisor to the CEO for equity, diversity, inclusion, and engagement at Social Current. In his high-impact roles with Social Current and its predecessor organization, the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, he has provided invaluable consultation to community-based organizations (CBOs). In his current role, he leads Social Current’s efforts in providing strategy, solutions, and support for the development of leaders in the social sector, with an emphasis on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). Through his strategic leadership and direction, he and a team of network leaders have co-created helpful resources, consultative services, and practices that uplift and disseminate best practices to help CBOs advance their impact on the EDI Journey.

In addition, Howard was instrumental in developing the Social Current’s leadership model, rEvolutionary Leadership, enabling the development of change leaders driving for system and population-level results. Other endeavors in which Howard has led include the annual Executive Leadership Institute. This transformational experience equips leaders with the adaptive leadership knowledge and skill set needed to create greater systems change.

Howard holds a doctorate in business from Bellevue University. He received his master’s in communication and bachelor’s business administration from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

Tom Woll is the facilitator of the Strategic Change Initiative. He has assisted organizations in 21 states over the last several years to identify and respond to the strategic challenges they are facing. Woll previously worked closely with the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities to help design and implement a project on residential transformation. This project worked with 36 organizations from 18 states to help them to become more family-focused, more community-based and more results-oriented.

Woll conducts 400 interviews every year with public and private sector leaders, with practitioners in the field, with families and youth receiving services, and with elected public officials. He asks them to offer their thoughts on the future of human services and he shares those thoughts with the organizations he consults with. Woll has conducted over 2,600 interviews since January 2010.