Fire and Silence

Necessary tactics for BIPOC leaders in polarized, white-dominant workplaces to navigate from survive to thrive.

In these politically fraught times, BIPOC leaders need to understand how to navigate the workplace, using our own experiences of discrimination to re-imagine how power can help others — rather than hurt them. To thrive, we must learn to occupy leadership without repressing crucial aspects of who we are.

Fire and Silence offers a roadmap toward using anger instead of trauma, pain without victimhood, and strength inclusive of vulnerability to maximize our impact as leaders, in ways that are fair to all. From the trenches of social activism to coaching board room executives, Annahid Dashtgard offers tips and tricks and strategies and stories to support other leaders of colour to achieve the support and recognition they so richly deserve — without having to sacrifice who they are in the process.