Fireside Chat with Dr. Robert Livingston
The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth
About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and
Organizations
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
12:05 p.m. PT | 3:05 p.m. ET
In keeping with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges‘ (NCJFCJ) priorities of diversity, equity, and inclusion and its mission to improve and deliver effective and culturally relevant outcomes to the communities we serve, the Linking Systems of Care Project is presenting a facilitated listening session with Dr. Livingston, author of The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations. Designed for judicial officers, Dr. Livingston will explore what judges need from NCJFCJ and their communities to successfully lead conversations about the impact of racism on child-serving systems, including the courts.
*The first 100 registrants will receive a redemption code for a free electronic copy of The Conversation.
Dr. Robert Livingston is a social psychologist and one of the nation’s leading experts on the science underlying bias and racism in organizations.
Dr. Livingston is a lecturer of Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. For two decades, Dr. Livingston has served as a diversity consultant to scores of Fortune 500 companies, public-sector agencies, and non-profit organizations. Dr. Livingston’s research has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. His book, The Conversation, has been selected as a candidate for the Financial Times & McKinsey Award for Best Business Book of 2021.
The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations is an essential tool for individuals, organizations, and communities of all sizes to jump-start dialogue on racism and bias and to transform well-intentioned statements on
diversity into concrete actions. For additional information on The Conversation, please visit Dr. Livingston’s website.
For additional information, please contact Heather Hull, Program Specialist, NCJFCJ, at hhull@ncjfcj.org
This program is supported in part by cooperative agreement 2018-V3-GX-K014, awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the US. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime.