Janklin

09/03/2026

👉 PSA: The Relational Leadership Lab is cancelled . . . and that's okay 😊

Have you ever been so excited about something that you just impulsively go out and do it? I've been known to do that. After a boyfriend breakup, I cut my hair really short. After I got a new contract, I bought a lottery ticket. After my son expressed interest in an Etchosketch, I went out and bought him one.

That's the kind of person I am. 😁

Was I impulsive with the Relational Leadership Lab? No.

But the timing of my delivery was. And that's okay.

I am slowing down. Pacing and finding a rhythm that opens up for more collaborations and perhaps better opportunities to support leaders. Do I still believe in what I'm doing and am I proud of myself?

🥰 100 percent. I have no regrets. 🤗

I'm not going anywhere but I am pausing my own in-person workshops for now.

Be encouraged when the timing seems off . . . perhaps it's 🕰️ Father Time's way of allowing more beautiful things to shine forward. ✨

Subscribe to my Invisible Briefcase series 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7445559455171371008 and be sure to connect with me here.

🤗 My thanks to everyone who championed this course to their networks and believed in the work that I bring. I'm honoured to have such wonderful champions in my life. 🥰

08/25/2026

🤔 Someone asked me "Why, Andrea? Why this lab about relational leadership?" Because culture is the first to be ignored in the workplace and the last to recover from when the harm, friction or conflict happens.

I've seen the ways many of us, as leaders, push past the pulse of a person just to finish the task of the project. I've seen people be punished for how they simply showed up, understood the task or heard our requests. I've been misunderstood, both as a leader and as someone who's been led, and sometimes, the damage lingers long after we clock off.

So why Relational Leadership Lab? Because we have the ability to stop ignoring and start remembering that the cultures we embody are shaping how we lead, how we listen, how we expect our teams to work.

🪞 The biggest relationship we forget is the one with ourselves and this lab is an invitation to look at the sets, values and habits that we bring into the workplace everyday so that we begin to not only understand others, but ourselves.

Join me. Spaces are still available.

And if you can't, please share this with someone you think might want to explore leadership in a new way. It would mean the world to me if you did. 🥰

💼 Leadership doesn't get more human when we ignore what makes us human. It gets more human when we finally look. 👓

💼 Register Today: https://www.janklin.ca/relational-leader-lab
🗓️ Saturday, September 12th from 9am to 5pm
💸 Cost: $100 for General Admission; $75 for Students + Seniors
📌 Sunset Labs 400 Herald St, Victoria, BC V8W 3N8, In-Person

08/14/2026

🦐 Jumbo Shrimp.
🍭 Bittersweet.
🌎 Cultural Neutrality?

I've heard this phrase used more and more within project management spaces, HR conversations and leadership circles. "We need to have cultural neutrality in our project and our organization." And while it sounds good, even perhaps 'safe', it actually is doing more damage to us than we realize.

I invite you to read my most recent article where I unpack what 'cultural neutrality' really means and why there is no escaping a person's culture, no matter how hard you try. Within the Project Management world, many processes and protocols are largely Western, not neutral. Aspects like:

💼 Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs (self-actualization was actually grounded in Blackfoot Culture, ya'll he never credited them either)
💼 Units of Accountability (KPIs, individual goal setting, etc.)
💼 Agile/Scrum (self-organizing, flat power structure)
💼 Risk Management (change control boards, risk registers)
💼 Feedback Culture (direct, critique of leadership)
💼 Time Orientation (monochronic, linear, Gantt charts)
And so much more!!

Like with any invisible briefcase, when left unopened, the problems, conflict and friction that arises is never understood and never resolved. Slapping "cultural neutrality" just keeps the cycle happening, blinding us from seeing others as they are and as we show up as leaders.

I'd love to hear your thoughts!! You can read it here on my website 👉 https://www.janklin.ca/articles/cultural-neutrality-the-jumbo-shrimp-of-leadership or you can subscribe to my Invisible Briefcase Series where every month (ish . . .I try) I post a new article related to culture, leadership and the unhidden parts that shape us. Subscribe on LinkedIn Subscribe on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7445559455171371008

Also join me on September 12th for my inagural Relational Leadership Lab where we'll explore culture and leadership in fun and new ways. Not a workshop and not a training, but an experimental leadership playground to support you in your leadership journey!!! Register here 👉: https://www.janklin.ca/relational-leader-lab
See you all soon 🤗

08/12/2026

08/12/2026

🤗 We are one month away from the Relational Leadership Lab on September 12th hosted on the beautiful Lekwungen Territory, in downtown Victoria, BC.

I guarantee you this won't be a leadership experience you've had. 😎

This isn't a workshop. It isn't a training. This is a day where you experience leadership from different angles and cultures, leaving with tools and resources to apply Monday morning. Card games, images and collective dialogue are just the cusp of our day together!!

🗓️ When: September 12, 2026, from 9am to 5pm
📌 Where: Sunset Labs, 400 Herald St, Victoria, BC V8W 3N8
💸 Cost: $100 for general admission; $75 for Students + Seniors

So sign up today!! Link in bio to secure your spot!

🤠 I'm excited for you to join me! 🤠

07/06/2026

💼 "Limited by its design, my briefcase was filled with a lot of information that said very little about a person’s story, let alone their humanity."

There is a culture of disgust in our society, and it rests between the papers of privilege in our invisible briefcase.

The term for this disgust toward the unhoused or low income is called “aporophobia.” Aporophobia refers to the hatred, disgust, or rejection of people experiencing poverty. The hostility is directed at a person’s financial status, what they lack, what they don’t have or haven’t ‘earned’.

In North America, aporophobia is part of our culture. And this view of the unhoused or low income is drowning in dehumanization. City architecture now reflects this aversion to the unhoused. Coined as “hostile architecture”, physical elements and urban policies are installed to intentionally deter people from resting, sleeping or hanging out. What does this look like? Segmented benches with armrests placed intermittently. Spikes or studs aligning window ledges, sidewalk grates or alcoves so that people cannot rest or shield themselves from the wind. The idea? Put the unwanted out of sight. Culture of disgust.

♥️ We are capable of so much more. We have the resources, the money, the infrastructures to care - we simply choose not to.

Sometimes the hardest culture to be critical of is our own but we have to start there if we are to understand others.

👍 If you haven't already, please subscribe to my newsletter: Subscribe on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7445559455171371008
Or explore my website with other thought leadership on culture: https://www.janklin.ca/articles

💼 For this week, how will you position your briefcase? Will it be closed and left unexamined? Or will it be opened and seen for what it really holds?

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✨ Join me on September 12 in beautiful downtown Victoria for a one day Relational Project Management Course. We'll explore how cultural intelligence, neurodiverse awareness and trauma-informed approaches can actually create relational, inclusive and sustainable leadership. Registration is now open: https://www.janklin.ca/relational-pm-lab-sept-12 or email me [email protected]. ✨

07/03/2026

Don’t wait for the conflict to happen. 😬
Have the conversation today. 😎

I’ve created Inclusive Conversation Cards™ because I kept seeing the same thing among work teams: leaders who care deeply but are afraid to open up conversations about culture, neurodiversity, and belonging.

These cards are designed to help you understand the cultural expectations you bring into a room, and the ones your team brings too. They’re built to create more inclusive environments for neurodiverse people, staff from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and equity deserving colleagues.

Inside the deck you’ll find two sets:

💬 Inclusive Conversation Cards, which move from a prompt for leaders, to a prompt for the room, to a chance to go deeper.

🧊 Inclusive Ice Breaker Cards, a lighter way to get people talking and sharing.

✨ Cards are $25 plus shipping, and a portion of every purchase goes to the Indigenous Perspectives Society, an Indigenous owned organization doing training in reconciliation and cultural history.✨

If you’re a leader who wants to build real cultural intelligence on your team, these cards are a place to start. Purchase link in bio 🔗

07/03/2026

Don't wait for the conflict to happen. 😬
Have the conversation today. 😎

I've created Inclusive Conversation Cards™ because I kept seeing the same thing among work teams: leaders who care deeply but are afraid to open up conversations about culture, neurodiversity, and belonging.

These cards are designed to help you understand the cultural expectations you bring into a room, and the ones your team brings too. They're built to create more inclusive environments for neurodiverse people, staff from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and equity deserving colleagues.

Inside the deck you'll find two sets:

💬 Inclusive Conversation Cards, which move from a prompt for leaders, to a prompt for the room, to a chance to go deeper.

🧊 Inclusive Ice Breaker Cards, a lighter way to get people talking and sharing.

✨ Cards are $25 plus shipping, and a portion of every purchase goes to the Indigenous Perspectives Society, an Indigenous owned organization doing training in reconciliation and cultural history.✨

If you're a leader who wants to build real cultural intelligence on your team, these cards are a place to start. Purchase here 👉 : https://www.janklin.ca/leadership-products

07/02/2026

🌏 Cultures aren't always specific to region or to place. And the ones we rarely examine are the ones we grew up with. Inspired by a recent trip to downtown Vancouver, a walk down East Hastings street with my son became a catalyst for unpacking what most of us are afraid to look at: a culture of disgust.

At a time when affordability of rent, food and basic necessities is high, many of us have seen an increase of people living on the streets. But this present time isn't unique to our lived experiences, because if we're honest, those with low income or without housing have always been with us. Whether we ignore them as we walk to work or pour out our money to shelters, sometimes the biggest way to build a culture of care is to realize how we aren't caring for the least of these.

💼 In my latest article, I unpack what creating cultures of care can look like in a culture of disgust, built with hostile architectures and inhumane policies. You might say there are no 'easy' solutions - but that my friend, is missing the point. We are far more capable to care, just like a child in this story did. If we always see a problem, then we'll never see the solution.

https://www.janklin.ca/articles/a-culture-of-care-in-a-society-of-disgust

Please feel free to share below your thoughts or experiences with the unhoused community. We're in this journey together. ♥️



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Andrea is a public speaker and a facilitator amplifying culture and people in leadership. Join her for a full day Relational Project Management Lab September 12th in downtown Victoria, BC. Spaces are limited so reserve your space today: https://www.janklin.ca/relational-pm-lab-sept-12 WestShore Chamber of Commerce

05/14/2026

🌎 Whether or not your organization is actively investing in diversity, your project teams are already operating across cultural complexity. 🤔

This is not a future consideration. It is your current operating environment.

Our teams, our schools, our workplaces are, without question, multicultural. The question is not what do we do but in who we become.

📈 Consider a study of over 800 individuals across 38 countries which found that individuals with a higher cultural competence sustained performance under stress(https://lnkd.in/gBVAc-7X).

Those without?

📉 A significant drop in performance across projects.

Inclusion is no longer an add-on, a 'nice to have' or something that we might plan to do. It is the very essence of being present - working and living - in a globalized world.

🌟 Join me this September for a Relational Human Management Course where we will incubate cultural intelligence in how we lead, manage and engage with teams. What a gift we can give ourselves and others by leaning into the beauty of diverse people around us, seeing differences not as threats but opportunities to expand our minds, our innovation and our heart.

Currently taking expressions of interest so please message me here or fill out this form: https://www.janklin.ca/eoi-rpmc

📚 And if you like reading, like me, check out the other study that this post cites: https://hbr.org/2021/06/research-how-cultural-differences-can-impact-global-teams

Check out my inclusive resources on my website https://www.janklin.ca/ and if you haven't subscribed, I offer a monthly newsletter on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7445559455171371008. This month's theme is belonging.

Stay well, friends. 🤗