Karika Ann Parker

Karika Ann Parker, Ph.D., is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Western Michigan University’s (WMU) Lewis Walker Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnic Relations, and the ASQ Vice Chair for the Education Division, Higher Education Network Group. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Black Americana Studies, a Master’s in U.S. History; and her doctorate in Educational Leadership, and Organizational Analysis from WMU in Kalamazoo, MI. Dr. Parker is the president and founder of Onyx Executive Leadership Consulting, LLC. She enjoys training boards of directors and trustees, executive-level leaders, and employees with a fresh approach to leadership using complex adaptive systems leadership to challenge their current assumptions and preconceived ideas about human resource development, leadership, and organizational learnings to analyze their organizations as complex, non-linear, self-organizing systems that can generate innovation, learning, and adaptation. Such adaptations ultimately address effective leadership, institutional inequities, and systemic racism for equitable and inclusive outcomes.

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