Profile Information
Location
Port Orchard, WA
Country
United States
Postal Code
98366
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Leah R. Kyaio is CEO/Founder of With Respect LLC does diversity differently. She provides professional development training, coaching, and consulting designed to create and nurture equity through tools of respect and belonging. The tools then support development of organizational cultures of dignity and justice, needed to dismantle oppression. Leah does her work through a lens of resilience, integrating the science of trauma and recovery into all of her tools and work which supports healthy individuals and organizations. In the last 20+ years she has positively impacted educational organizations, government agencies, juvenile justice systems, community-based organizations, small and large businesses, law enforcement, and non-profits.
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
With Respect, LLC
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
As a survivor and thriver, it is important to support the dismantling, mitigation, and prevention of the trauma experienced in childhood - from people and systems, particularly the system of oppression. Supporting the understanding of the impact of ACES, trauma, violence, and poverty requires going beyond being trauma informed practice into resilience and the tools necessary to activate that resilience before, during, and after trauma strikes. Without consideration of cultural relevance, cultural responsiveness, and cultural acuity, healing trauma and teaching resilience can't happen. It is my goal to positively impact change in the World, to the Seventh Generation.