The Visibility Gap: Ethics of Power Beyond the Top Seat

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The Visibility Gap: Ethics of Power Beyond the Top Seat

In Person

March 19, 2027

8:30 am EDT - 1:00 pm EDT

Location: New Hampshire Institute of Politics

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Despite having held the governorship and other prominent State House positions, New Hampshire women continue to face significant barriers to representation and influence across the state’s legislative, corporate, and municipal leadership structures.

This half-day workshop led by Makiyah Moody (Kairos and Heart Consulting) invites women leaders across generations, racial identities, sectors, and professional experiences to examine how power operates within their organizations and communities—and what ethical leadership requires of those who hold positions of influence. Through facilitated dialogue, mini lectures, individual reflection, and an intergenerational panel, participants will examine how power is exercised, how exclusion can be reproduced, and how leaders can widen access for women who follow them.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

* Distinguish visibility and representation from meaningful decision-making power.

* Apply fiduciary, strategic, and generative lenses to leadership challenges.

* Identify formal and informal structures that shape access to influence.

* Reflect on how their own leadership practices may reinforce or disrupt barriers.

Apply Today

Meet the Speaker:

Makiyah Moody, Founder & President, helps organizations ask and answer critical questions about how to deliver their missions more effectively. A skilled facilitator and governance specialist, Makiyah launched Kairos & Heart LLC in August 2021 after realizing that being and doing are different and she wanted to explore different design choices for partnering with organizational leaders.

For five and a half years, Makiyah sharpened her consulting skills at La Piana Consulting, a national management consulting firm where she also led business development for three years. Prior to joining La Piana in 2016, she directed governance initiatives for the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools, founded the New Orleans regional office of Leading Educators and held various roles over six years with the KIPP Foundation. She is a Pahara Fellow, an Executive Scholar with the Center for Nonprofit Management at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and a BoardSource Certified Governance Consultant.

Prior to graduate school, Makiyah was a Civil Rights Investigator with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, an experience that vividly confirmed the disparate impact of structural racism. She is most energized by the opportunity to work with organizations that support underinvested communities and people of color, and that advance democracy and racial equity. Past clients include State Innovation Exchange, Outward Bound USA, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, YWCA USA, Children’s Defense Fund, NH Women’s Foundation, and The Endowment for Health.

Makiyah has an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago, a BA in Hispanic Studies, magna cum laude, from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, and is currently pursuing her MA in Theology and Ministry at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary with a focus on racial justice. From 2014 to 2019 she served as a trustee at Wheaton College.