The Activist Thought Leader - The New paradigm!
- Brainz Magazine
- May 18, 2021
- 5 min read
Written by: Chesline Pierre-Paul, Executive Contributor
Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise.
Innovation for the sole purpose of pushing industrial edges past their defining state of normative constraints, is halfly purposed and halfly impact-driven.
What brings true norm-defying elevation to innovation is when it is established through affirmed purpose and scalable impact. In other words, beyond the generation of readily monetizable gain, what culture of augmented global thought leadership, justice, and economic empowerment can be instated so that money-determined and money-transcending leverages are capitalized upon to enhance the grounding paradigms of our industry?
A furthered extension of that thought and rationale begs the question; “How to render undividedly bound, mutually justifiable, and binding the purpose, scope, and intrinsic finality of social justice, resistance, and purposed entrepreneurship?”
How can we create a space of mutual honoring and belonging that inextricably proposes entrepreneurship as a vehicle for more than the targeted exponentialization of capital, assets, and tangible gains? How can social justice be geared and poised as an accelerating force of purposed entrepreneurship?
Too often, any activistic pretension, inclination, or enterprise is unduly mischaracterized as concessions from the haves ostensibly relenting material privileges to the haves not - in this lens domineered by lack, non-reciprocity, and fixist hierarchy, activism is reductively framed as economically non-generative, purely functionally re-distributive, and substantially concessive in nature. Targeted universalism reveals that the elevation of the most unprotected and systemically disprivileged class consequently instates the elevation of everybody else’s condition and material privileges.
Thus, when circling back to our baseline question: “How to render mutually binding, necessary, and justifiable the converging purposes and finality of resistance, social justice, and purposed entrepreneurship?” …
Here’s how to roll forward with it.
Step I: Decenter Your Paradigm
For one, decentering the dominance of your own perception and construct of self as a leader allows for lucidity and innovational intelligence to reveal themselves to you through positive disruption. By deliberately integrating spaces where the consolidated intelligence of the majority does not carry your norm leadership-wise, you are bringing yourself to be mindfully compelled to re-appreciate the bulk and kernel of your intelligence as a leader against narratives, realities, industry knowledge, defining foci and purposes that encompass a depth and magnitude of leadership that is systemically sustained outside of your own reality. Thus, each point of encounter between the reality of your leadership and the one expressed and nurtured in such spaces allows you to see, through other-awareness, new gaps, new possibilities, and new leverages in yourself. The humility of your own perfectibility makes you more powerful in your disruption, for this brings you to allow your own norms to be optimally re-appreciated, counterbalanced, challenged, checked, and deconstructed.
Step II: Create a Posse of Socialpreneurial Allies
Here, it is all about learning to prioritize spaces where socialpreneurship is the incarnator of purposed entrepreneurship. Use these encounters as live sounding boards, wherein you can whet your acumen for the latent and untapped synchronicity of where your leadership can be internationalized in reach and maximized in impact.
As you find your rhythm in spaces that decenter your norm and in spaces that are requisite on the power of activistic socialpreneurship as a defining paradigm, here are the prompts you want to hold as top-of-mind to steer you onwards in your growth into more momentous, purposed, and elevated thought leadership:
Ask yourself:
How can you solidify a structure of accessibility around your brand and mission so that more direct engagement with your brand may be altruistically concreted through the servicing of invisibilized and underserved communities in ways mutually honoring (as a direct application of targeted universalism)?
What voices are systemically removed, tokenized, or decentered in your communities? And how to harmonize voices that issue from different regimes of in/visibility into what the next iteration of social impact will come to be through you?
What is the organic constitution of your community, board, executives, leaders, partners, sponsors, and clients? And to what extent does it allow for you to be optimally expanded by a layered register of intelligent disruption, innovational intelligence, and industry knowledges that are so powerfully complementary to your own because they exist beyond the reality of your norm?
What for-impact consultants (such as myself) do you work with on the quarterly that offer impact-driven tangible ways of maximally leveraging social impact on the scale of the global by pointedly tending to your disacknowledged and underserved gaps and areas of development impact- and leadership-wise?
What new connections can be brought into your circle of power with clarifying intentionality so that cross-collaborations purposed for the intermixing of for-purpose and for-profit can be compounded into yet another layer of impact, transformation, and rebellious leadership?
How can you critically, mindfully, responsibly, and purposefully utilize anti-oppression as a driving and accelerating force of innovational intelligence that infuses more reach, deliberation, activistic self-consciousness, significance, and impact to your embodiment of leadership?
As you do use these afore-posited prompts as a way to elevate your consciousness into a state of focused intentionality, deliberation, activistic consciousness, and self-reflection, you grow from localized impact to expansion-hungry and -capable.
Why, you ask? Because of the combined actions of...
Decentering yourself,
Being impacted by other paradigms, defining truths and realities around impact and leadership,
Nurturing disruptively enlightening allyships with creatures of the resistance that compound change and transformation into a culture of purposed entrepreneurship helps you be challenged into more growth, humility, strategic recalibration, self-searching, and innovational intelligence as a leader,
working with social impact experts (that is, yours truly),
and harnessing anti-oppression as innovational intelligence makes leadership an unfractured embodiment of change-making, activistic brilliance, deliberation, and social transformation.
… make you paradigm-shifting, change-making, and industry-making.
Concretely, through your posse of allies, social impact consultants, and their connections you get to smoothly anti-oppressively scale impact across languages, activism, global organizations, and even industries by pooling resources, escalating accessibility and compounding impact.
Truly elevated global thought leadership is construed on the strength of for-profit meeting for-purpose in ways exponentially binding and anti-oppressively grounding in their impact-focusedness.
Dare to be more than your industry’s paradigm can currently contain and behold so that you may empower yourself to grow into everything it needs to reach elevation in its next cycle of growth and augmented thought leadership. Transformation, is only the beginning.
Chesline Pierre-Paul, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Chesline Pierre-Paul is a transformation coach, thought leader, digital media & language activist, and social impact expert on innovation, economic empowerment, & rebellious leadership. They deploy healing, cross-industry innovation, and positive disruption to concretize and accelerate the transformation and global impact. They have been featured on; Woman in Language, This Is It Tv, She Owns Success, Polyglot Conference Global, The Hambone Show, Happier By The Minute, The Accented World Podcast Callum Connects, to name a few. They bring into harmony worlds that are customarily divorced: activism and entrepreneurship, and they leverage the disruptive distance between the two to activate and stabilize next-gen global thought leadership. Today.
