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How we communicate with each other changes our experience of the world, whether it be within our personal or professional relationships. Today’s guest has made it his mission to facilitate the collaborative negotiation skills required in every aspect of our daily lives, but particularly in business and activism settings.

Justin Wright is the CEO of Habitus, a certified B-corporation facilitating complex decision-making processes and coordinating collaboration between multiple stakeholders to empower collective action. He has recently authored what he refers to as “a negotiation book disguised as a career book”, Finding A Job That Loves You Back and is a member of White Men For Racial Justice. 

In this episode, we learn about Justin’s background and his mission, the impetus behind the book, as well as the writing process. Justin breaks down the role of collaborative negotiation in the Next Economy and presents the foundation of facilitation and negotiation. We hear about White Men For Racial Justice; why Justin participates and how it informs his work, and discover what drives his interest in working with activists and community organizers. Tune in to learn the value of collaborative negotiation and what you can do to support Justin’s vision.

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Key Points From This Episode:

• Introducing Habitus CEO, Justin Wright: his background and current focus. [0:00:30]

• Habitus’ facilitation role (and goal); the common needs they encounter in their work. [0:08:50]

• The impetus behind the book, Finding A Job That Loves You Back, and the process of writing it. [0:11:49]

• The role of collaborative negotiation in the Next Economy. [0:15:53]

• Establishing the boundaries of personal and work-related trauma. [0:21:11]

• What White Men For Racial Justice is, why Justin participates, and how it impacts his work. [0:24:33]

• What Justin is currently fired up about and working towards. [0:28:09]

• The foundation of facilitation and negotiation, as presented in the book. [0:31:20]

• What listeners can do to support Justin’s mission. [0:39:00]

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Tweetables:

“We have this myth in our culture that there are certain things where you just have it or you don’t. That’s not true, they are skills.” — Justin Wright [0:07:08]

“When you don’t have that basis of trust, how you interact becomes really important.” — Justin Wright [0:10:25]

“All of us are collaborative negotiators all the time.” — Justin Wright [0:11:49]

“What will make you a truly amazing negotiator, mediator, [or] facilitator, is the ability to listen through what people say they want to hear the underlying positive future-focused desire is.” — Justin Wright [0:34:22]

“It is amazing how much more you get out of conversations if you pause and invite more, rather than just moving through it.” — Justin Wright [0:40:32]

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Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Justin Wright on LinkedIn —https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-wright-500aa314/

Justin Wright’s Email — jwright@habitusincorporated.com

Habitus Incorporated —https://habitusincorporated.com/

Finding A Job That Loves You Back — https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737946908

White Men For Racial Justice —https://www.wmrj.org/

Difficult Conversations — https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143118442

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