Special Session!
Matriarchal Futures in the Workplace: Redesigning Systems That Don’t Demand Our Disappearance
Lovette Jallow
Please join PNODN in welcoming Lovette Jallow, all the way from Sweden! Lovette's work has earned national and international awards for leadership in anti-racism, neurodiversity, and systemic inclusion, spanning government, education, and civil society.
This special 90-minute lunchtime session challenges the assumption that working with women -- especially racialized, neurodivergent, and system-disrupting women -- is what makes inclusion difficult. The real challenge lies in organizational systems built on dominance, compliance, and erasure.
I’ll explore how patriarchal workplace norms selectively uplift sanitized versions of marginalized women while punishing leadership, boundaries, and refusal. Using frameworks rooted in matriarchal governance relational intelligence, strategic refusal, care-based accountability I’ll offer OD practitioners tools to redesign environments that are not just inclusive, but structurally just.
Learning Objectives for this Session
1. Identify how traditional workplace structures are shaped by patriarchal and ableist norms.
2. Analyze how underrepresented women are systematically excluded, co-opted, or punished.
3. Examine matriarchal governance principles as models for structural care and leadership.
4. Apply equity-centered strategies to organizational development.
5. Develop interventions that no longer require marginalized women to assimilate in order to survive.
About the Presenter
Lovette Jallow is a nine-time award-winning author, strategist, and global speaker specializing in neurodivergence, anti-racism, and structural equity. A Black autistic woman with lived experience across West Africa and Europe, Lovette brings a rare combination of critical insight, applied systems thinking, and lived expertise to institutions seeking to move beyond performative inclusion.
Her work spans sectors including humanitarian coordination, neurodiversity consulting, and cultural policy reform offering institutions tools to confront how race, disability, and power are embedded in diagnostics, education, and organizational design. She is the founder of Black Vogue, a platform that challenged the Eurocentric beauty industry and reshaped public discourse on racial representation in Scandinavia. Rather than a lifestyle project, Black Vogue served as a structural critique of how Black women are erased, regulated, and pathologized—insights she expands in her published books, which are now used in academic and policy contexts.
Lovette is also the founder of Action for Humanity, an independent humanitarian initiative working across Sweden, The Gambia, Libya, and Lebanon to support refugee repatriation, anti-racism education, and advocacy for marginalized neurodivergent communities. Her lectures have been delivered at universities, international summits, and corporate institutions addressing how white supremacy, ableism, and structural neglect define mainstream inclusion frameworks.
She does not deliver awareness talks. She offers systems critique, evidence-informed tools, and strategies rooted in justice not compliance. Her work affirms that true inclusion requires not just access, but structural accountability.
AGENDA:
11:45am - 12:00pm Pacific Time: Join Zoom Meeting
12:00- 1:30 pm Pacific Time: Training
Please be aware that our trainings could be recorded or photographed.
Learn more about Lovette: https://lovettejallow.com/
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