Leadership Uncensored with host Dawn Emerick, EdD
Where Real Leaders Talk About the Hard Stuff
Welcome to Leadership Uncensored—the podcast that cuts through the polished scripts and curated personas to bring you raw, real, and unfiltered conversations about what it truly means to lead in today’s world.
Hosted by Dr. Dawn Emerick, a national voice in trauma-informed leadership and systems change, this podcast goes beyond buzzwords to explore the messy, meaningful, and transformative moments of leadership. Whether you're a seasoned executive, a changemaker in the making, or someone navigating the tension between personal healing and professional growth, Leadership Uncensored is your space.
Each episode features courageous conversations with leaders across sectors—corporate, nonprofit, government, and education—who are willing to pull back the curtain. We talk burnout, breakthrough, betrayal, bias, boundaries, and becoming. No fluff. No filters. Just truth.
Leadership Uncensored with host Dawn Emerick, EdD
Season 3: Episode 17 Best Practices in Trauma-Informed Leadership: Trauma-Informed Design
Trauma-informed design is about weaving the principles of trauma-informed practice into architectural design with the goal of creating physical spaces that promote safety, collaboration, empowerment, well-being and healing.
Over the last 15-20 years, there’s been a sweeping effort by urban planners and landscape architects to create healthy community design and health-based zoning. But what’s good for the community is good for the workplace, right?
There is a strong link between our physiological state, our emotional state and the physical environment, especially at work. Research has shown how the physical environment can impact a person’s attitude, mood and behavior. It also means that intentionally designing and maintaining healing environments at the office leads to empowerment and resists retraumatizing those who have already experienced so much trauma.
Join me in welcoming three founding members of the Trauma-Informed Design Society-- Davis Harte, Christine Cowart, and Janet Roche for this episode of Leadership Uncensored. Learn more about their groundbreaking Trauma-informed Design Evaluation Tool for K-12 Schools funded by the American Society of Interior Designers Foundation.