Fire and Silence
A Roadmap for BIPOC Leaders
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Annahid Dashtgard's Fire and Silence provides targeted leadership guidance for BIPOC leaders, combining personal stories, practical tactics, and healing practices to navigate workplace racism and wield power constructively.
The book identifies common racialized workplace patterns, offers influence and career strategies, and centers the importance of healing racial trauma to separate past wounds from present leadership moments.
It emphasizes using compassion and authority without victimhood, modelling inclusive power, and changing organizational rules to prevent reproducing oppression.
Drawn from Dashtgard's decades of consulting and running a BIPOC leader lab, the book includes real-world examples and tools to support long-term impact.
The work is aimed at both racialized leaders and others who want to create more equitable, humane workplaces by learning how to use power for collective benefit rather than individual gain.
The book identifies common racialized workplace patterns, offers influence and career strategies, and centers the importance of healing racial trauma to separate past wounds from present leadership moments.
It emphasizes using compassion and authority without victimhood, modelling inclusive power, and changing organizational rules to prevent reproducing oppression.
Drawn from Dashtgard's decades of consulting and running a BIPOC leader lab, the book includes real-world examples and tools to support long-term impact.
The work is aimed at both racialized leaders and others who want to create more equitable, humane workplaces by learning how to use power for collective benefit rather than individual gain.
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Annahid Dashtgard, "Fire and Silence: A Roadmap for BIPOC Leaders" (Dundurn Press, 2026)
