“Ms. Douglas calls out the mastery of leadership demonstrated by contemporary leaders from an artist to chief executives. Read here to garner secrets of effective leadership!”

— Elizabeth Graham Cook
Former Director of Cultural Affairs for the City of Boston

“Priscilla Douglas’s insights cast the leadership process into another dimension. In Woke Leadership, the square becomes a cube, and the triangle a pyramid.”

— Ruth Holmes
President of Pentec, Inc.

“I saw myself in this book. Woke Leadership validates the experiences of people of color, women and anyone that has ever been an outsider. Priscilla illuminates how these experiences shape leaders that are empathic, innovative, courageous, and how they in turn transform their people, their organizations, and their communities.”

— Timicka C. Anderson
Managing Director at Citi Commercial Banking

“In Woke Leadership, Priscilla Douglas lays out a compelling vision and a clear blueprint for leadership that is inclusive, collaborative, and capable of transforming teams to rise to their very best.”

— Breanna Zwart
President of San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women

“Priscilla Douglas traces the word “woke” from its origins in Black vernacular to its application in the corporate world, in politics and in society today. Woke Leadership is a compelling window into the cultural anthropology of America, and into how the quest for social justice informs our work and our lives.''

— Ben Bradlee Jr
Former editor Boston Globe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

“The ease in reading Woke Leadership could belie the insights awaiting a bountiful harvest for the reader. Being woke is not just a term of art. It’s a way of being. According to Douglas, woke leaders inspire, transform, adapt, and produce innovations that make people’s lives better. This book is a manifesto of a sort—illuminating how woke leaders remain responsive to the needs of their team, patrons, constituents, customers, and communities while leaving joy in their wake.”

— Lisa Yancey
President of Yancey Consulting & Co-Founder of The We’s Match

“This books brings humor, sanity, and intelligence to an era defined by anger and polarization. You will learn, laugh, think, and come out with a sense of shared humanity.”

— Juan Enriquez
Author of Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms our Ethics

“Woke leadership is a continuum of noticing, appreciating, internalizing, and acting.” How prescient. Douglas not only foresees the future we need to have in her book but can demonstrate with multiple examples of leadership how it has happened in the past and can continue to happen. She gives us the path. Now, it’s our job to follow it and to bring others. Woke on!”

— Pam Lassiter
Career expert and author of The New Job Security,
a Wall Street Journal award-winning book

“Noted leadership guru Priscilla Douglas combines written snapshots of business leaders she has known along with her own autobiographical insights to approach – iteratively – a rich description of what is involved in being a “woke” leader. Absent are the unrealistic and unhelpful portrayals of perfect super-leaders. Instead, we arrive at a composite portrait made from the different ways in which sometimes imperfect people can and do lead in a woke way, not as a destination or an achievement but as an empathetic attitude that gets better results.”

— Joshua Boger
Ph.D. Founder and CEO (former) Vertex Pharmaceuticals