Nathalie Al-Zyoud led a session on shifting power dynamics for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy during EPIP's annual conference in Detroit, Michigan.

Power, in the field of conflict resolution, is defined as the ability to bring about a preferred outcome. Traditional leadership has typically relied on directive strategies to manage employees, fearing that shared decision-making risks a loss of one’s chosen solution.

Cultural dominance manifests itself in a number of ways. Breaking those patterns can start with pointing the mirror at oneself, altering the ways by which we operate and shifting things from where we sit.