ABSTRACT
Now resting firmly upon the author's re-defined foundational terms, the discussion moves into a description and conceptualization of transformational leadership. With the re-definition of diversity, cultural competency, trauma, trauma-informed practice and leadership, we are now able to utilize and operationalize these terms with a more functional and universal approach and application. At this stage, the author has enabled the reader to critically unpack and analyze how past mis-definitions have limited social work practices' commitment to social justice and organizational and personal growth, and now, said re-definitions can create new possibility for the reader and their spaces. This discussion around new possibility begins with Transformational Leadership, which the author argues, can be achieved through the tenets of trauma-informed practice with a diversity and inclusion lens. Finally, the author lists and discusses a few traits they have found in transformational leaders in their life, traits include mindfulness, compassion, comfort with nuance, courage, vulnerability, emphatic accountability, curiosity and being trauma responsive.
