Lakiba Pittman, M.A.
Faculty Lecturer
“When we speak, we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So, it is better to speak.” – Audre Lorde
Education
| • | University of San Francisco – M.A. in Organizational Development – Vizuri Kabisa Recognition Award for Excellence in Academic Achievement |
| • | San Jose State University – B.A. in Creative Arts |
Executive Education
• African American Leadership Institute, Anderson School of Graduate Management, UCLA
• Certified Instructor – Creativity in Business – Stanford University School of Business
Biography
Professor Pittman is an educator, business consultant and creative artist. After twenty plus years with Hewlett Packard/Agilent Technologies, she started her own consulting business offering organizational leadership and diversity and inclusion planning for companies, non-profits, and educational institutions. With her range of skills, she also designs and delivers specialized workshops on cultivating compassionate leadership skills, cultural competency and cultural sensitivity utilizing mindful practices. She is a facilitator of workshops with Stanford’s Center for Compassion & Altruism Research & Education, The Compassion Institute, Compassion Education Alliance and Healing Together. Professor Pittman was the Director for the Office of Diversity at Notre Dame de Namur for six years and an adjunct professor for four years. She’s a lecturer at Menlo College teaching Diversity in the Workplace, Culture in Media & Race & Racism. Professor Pittman is currently a doctoral student in Psychology with co-specializations in Consciousness, Spirituality & Integrated Health and Transformative Social Change at Saybrook University. Her research interests include the efficacy of mindfulness-based pedagogies in healing trauma, methods to heal and end racism and the isms of the day, and the power of connection, community and compassion in healing and transforming individuals and communities. Professor Pittman is the author of “Bread Crumbs From The Soul: Finding Your Way Back Home” – a book of her art, poetry and stories from her life.
Professional Activities
Teaching
Courses Taught
• Diversity in the Workplace (Menlo)
• Cultural Expressions in Media (Menlo)
• Race & Racism (Menlo)
• Race & Ethnicity (Notre Dame de Namur University)
Training & Certifications
| • | Sr. Certified Compassion Cultivation Training© Instructor. Stanford School of Medicine, Center for Compassion & Altruism Research & Education. Affiliations with Compassion Institute & Center for Education Alliance (cea) |
| • | Healing Trauma Facilitator – Healing Together & Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) Community Healing Network |
| • | Teacher in Training: Mindful Self Compassion workshops. Center for Mindful Self-Compassion |
| • | Teacher in Training: Mindful Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) – UCSD Center for Mindfulness |
| • | Teacher in Training: Mind Body Medicine – Center for Mind Body-Medicine |
Other Trainings
• Stanford School of Business T Groups – Interpersonal Communications (2021)
• Healing Collective Trauma w/Thomas Hubl – California Institute of Integral Studies (2021)
•Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome w/Dr. Joy DeGruy – Racial Healing Training (2019-2020)
•Wellness, Recovery Action Plan – WRAP – Training, Santa Clara County (2020)
•Fierce Self Compassion / Radical Self-Compassion w/Kristen Neff Spirit Rock (2020-2021)
•HIVE Global Leaders’ Summit – IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences) (2019)
•Compassion in Leadership / Wisdom 2.0 / Linked In. (2017-2021)
•National Conference on Race & Equality in Education (NCORE) (2019)
•Design Your Life for Women (DYL) (2018)
•Building Racial Equity, East Bay Community Foundation (2018)
•Women Serving Vulnerable Communities, Samuel Merritt University (2018)
•African American Transgenerational Trauma, California Institute of Integral Studies (2018)
•Search Inside Yourself Leadership Training (2017)
•Transformative Leadership, The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, Stanford University (2016)
•Compassion Focused Therapy (2016)
•EQ (Emotional Intelligence) for Bay Area Parents & Educators (2016)
Workshops & Speaking Engagements
| • | 2021. “Mindfulness & Cultivating Compassion for Self & Others, Stanford Medicine – ACEs Aware Echo, Stanford Children’s Hospital. |
| • | 2021. “Cultivating Cultural Compassion” – Stanford Medicine Pediatric Advocacy Coalition. |
| • | 2021-2019. “Compassion in Leadership & Self Care” – “REST – Taking Care of Oneself during the Pandemic and Year of Social Justice Concerns” – Levi Strauss. |
| • | 2021-2020. “Mindfulness & Meditation Techniques for Self-Care.” NUNA Inc. |
| • | 2021-2020. 8-week Compassion Cultivation Training workshops for staff and managers of LifeMoves – provider of interim housing and supportive services for homeless families and individuals from Daly City to San Jose, CA. |
| • | 2021-2018. “Transforming Intergenerational Trauma into Intergenerational Healing.” Being Together (formerly Global Gratitude Alliance). |
| • | 2021-2017. “Mindfulness workshop series for students, faculty & parents” – Ronald McDonald House, Los Altos High School, Mtn. View High School, Roy Cloud Elementary, Girl to Women afterschool program in E. Palo Alto, CA. |
| • | 2020. “Cultivating Compassion & Self Care – Fireside Chat – Stanford University’s Health Improvement Program. Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education |
| • | 2020. “Cultivating Compassion” – Stanford Department of Chemistry. |
| • | 2020. “Medicine for Self-Care, Love and Acceptance” – Communal Gathering Space. Street Dance Activism for Global Dance Meditation for Black Liberation. |
| • | 2020. “Invited Oral Historian” Stanford University Committee on Black Performing Arts Legacy. Institute for Diversity in the Arts |
| • | 2020. “Featured Poet – Kick Off – Poet Open Mic Series,” Museum of the African Diaspora. San Francisco. |
| • | 2019. “Racism & Hidden Bias” – Notre Dame de Namur University Professional Development Day w/The Theatre of the Oppressed. |
| • | 2018. “Living Compassion” – Concrn – Compassionate Responders Network – serving homeless populations in the Tenderloin, San Francisco |
| • | 2018. 8-week Compassion Cultivation Training workshop for A Black Education Network (ABEN) parents of STEM students – San Francisco’s Hunter’s Point Green Scholars. San Francisco State University |
| • | 2017. “Practicing Mindfulness, A Living Art” – Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco |
| • | 2016. “Cultural Sensitivity” – for Lava Mae, provider of showers for the homeless from repurposed buses, San Francisco. |
| • | 2016. “Menlo Dialogue: A Common Humanity” – Menlo College |
| • | 2016. “Compassion Cultivation, Mindfulness and Cultural Sensitivity for Educators”, Sonima Foundation. Ravenswood City School District, E. Palo Alto, CA. |
Organizational Development Advisor
| • | UMFS – providers of foster care and residential treatment for youth. Reducing stress and strategies to mitigate stressors connected to the Pandemic and racial social justice issues. (2021) |
| • | Morgan Stanley – Advisement on establishing a diversity council in Silicon Valley – JEDI – Justice, Education, Diversity & Inclusion. (2020) |
| • | Oxford Day Academy & The Primary School (Zuckerberg Foundation) on diversity and cultural sensitivity and competence (2017-2018) |
Awards & Honors
• Honorary Doctor of Ministry – D. Min, Bell Grove Theology Seminary.
