About
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
-Nelson Mandela
Human-Centered Leadership Collaborative Mission
HCLC works alongside mission-driven organizations to reach their ideal state –creating fulfilling organizations that meet their missions and exceed their financial goals. Fulfilling organizations are places where every team member feels good, and is inspired to do good.
Solving inequities in the workplace requires human-centered approaches. A human-centered approach is a commitment to a people-first praxis. This is a paradigm shift from putting profit before human beings. This is not a trend, cannot be performative, and must not go out of style. It is a rooted and ongoing conscious process to learn, unlearn, grow, and collectively create harm-free work environments that are equitable, inclusive, and just.
Why is Humanization Needed In The Work Place?
Are considering leaving their job due to experiencing microaggressions
Time we spend at work in our lifetime according to research
HCLC Process to Organizational Transcendence
HCLC Addresses The Root Causes:
TRUST
Missing trauma-informed foundation of trust and empathy build into systems and organizations
CONNECTION
Supports organizations in centering their why
TIME
The power of knowing time is finite and human energy is finite as well. Leaning towards fruitfully using time to focus on what truly matters.
IMPLEMENTATION
Link new knowledge to behavior within organizational and interpersonal relationships
Our Founder + CEO
Malika Hodge
Humanization, Organizational & Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) Strategist
Malika is a humanization strategist, DEIA thought leader, coach, facilitator, writer, and public speaker. She has a Master’s degree in Public Health from Tufts University, a certification in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University, and BA from Boston College. She is also a nutritionist, doula, and certified lactation consultant.
Our founder was inspired to create the Human-Centered Leadership Collaborative after realizing how prevalent it is for people to feel a lack of trust, safety, and motivation at work. The experience of workplace harm is generational. Malika recalls how downtrodden her father and mother were after coming home from the workplace. People, especially BIPOC people, can go their whole lives feeling joyless, and harmed by non-inclusive workplace cultures. This is the reason why Malika views this problem as a human rights, public health, and mental health issue.
Malika does believe there is a solution to this problem. Her organization aims to bridge the gap between expanding DEI work and learning and development.