Dr. Myosha
McAfee

About

My sacred purpose is to be light. Being light means to radiate, to glow, to be weightless, and bring light to what's unexcavated, underground, unevolved in organizational leadership and healing. States of light, possibility, expansion, grace, magnanimity, hózhó, and courage are my superpowers — and I work with these fields in the unseen to do the unprecedented.

In the Harvard Educational Review (McAfee, 2013), I articulated a methodology for understanding race as a kinetic phenomenon — beyond a category, skin color, or construct — what I call the kinesiology of race. It has seeded the creation of Equitecture® and other proprietary frameworks and models.

As a social scientist, I apply wide and deep wells of knowledge — four disciplines, four schools of thought, six fields — on how race moves through the interactions and operations of organizations. I bring this deep expertise to complex and charged organizational/societal problems.

The credential-earning years are places I've been. They culminated into the absolute expression of my sacred purpose. The sacred and purpose — unfolding, emerging. Then, realization. And then, the next level. Destiny attained. Then up-leveled to the next destiny. It included a wondrous and kismet time at Harvard earning my doctorate with the support of Doctors Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, John B. Diamond, Theresa Perry, William Julius Wilson, Dean Williams, Ron Ferguson, Karen Mapp and Mr. Paul Reville.

In classrooms with kids ages 9–11 — who have also been my teachers — and in the arena across tech, nonprofit, consulting, academia, K–12 education, and social enterprise, I worked with people, cultures/sub-cultures, systems, structures, ideas, and cannons of research: ideating, risk-taking, experimenting, communicating and interacting with the energetics of phenomenon to create Equitecture® and the Light Architecture of Courage™.

The journeys I curate move individuals and entire institutions to grapple with and humbly consider what truly transformative anti-racist, systems' change work can emerge as.

I was the Founder and Head of Google's Center for Racial Equity and Systemic Transformation (CREST) — an unusual opportunity to work at a scale and altitude unlike any other. Directly reporting to the then Chief Diversity Officer, my systemic change work was raised to the level of the entire ≈ 200-person team and I set the global strategy for racial equity at Google. My efforts at this altitude eventually affected all full-time employees in the 200,000-person company and cut across 16 verticals in HR.

Directly activating 16,000 employees, I structured a multi-entry point strategy that engaged 75% of executives — and over 1,000 employees in week one. Organic demand allowed part of my portfolio to scale across 3 states and 15 offices by the second year. The most common thing people said? "It's transformational." How about that? Astonished, it was proof I lived my sacred purpose out loud, at the scale of systems, and in tech. It proved our sense of possibility and my partnership with the unseen can realize the unprecedented in 3D, not merely in theory, imagination, or optimism.

The genesis of these methodologies — the Kinesiology of Race and Equitecture® — are both purpose and providence.

These methodologies, at their core, are a continuation of principles of sovereignty, liberation, justice. They are structural medicine. A divine emergence of systemic solutions coming into being. I humbly unfolded into my own becoming amid this great adventure, trusting and knowing that I was — and still am — guided, held, holy, and sanctuary.

The Quadralectic

The methodology arrived through a combination of analysis and sensing — as a seer: one who sees what wants to be seen with special sight. It did not arrive through analysis alone. It is a learning in progress — unfolding as I teach it, and my purpose is to unfold it. I am engaged in a more fluid development process, one that is a reward for having learned from a range of different teachers across a range of ages and forms: children, hikes in forests, roots and trunks of trees growing in three directions, the sovereignty of mountains, the depths and movement of oceans, the sunrise and sunset — all teachers to me, helpers in realizing my purpose.

I learned how to see phenomena not discernible by the naked eye, nor by a microscope, nor by the tools we currently have.

The interactions between my lived experience, the questions that shaped me — can I figure out how to solve for structural inequity? — the different teachers of different forms, and my sacred purpose participate in something interactive and kinetic. A quantum field, listening. The energetics of the solution sensed me, and emerged into being through these quadralectics.

Quadralectics — the living interaction of four forces that do not add to one another but multiply: lived experience, a shaping question, teachers of all forms, and sacred purpose. When these four move together, the methodology does not arrive by design. It is woven, sensed, and received.

Some things take years to name. I've been in formation. Quiet. Working something through.

Light organized existence before language named it. Before your industry. Before the first meeting. Before the question of whether you were ready.

Leadership that can hold people when certainty dissolves has to be built from something that old.

That's the inquiry. That's the work.

The Equitecture® Institute — now in formation.

I look forward to meeting you.

Keep good.
In light,
Dr. Myosha McAfee
CEO | Founder · The Equitecture® Institute | Racial Equitecture®