The Power of Side by Side Leadership with Cindy Reed

Most people say they want “lived experience” in the room. Cindy Reed just made the case for doing it better — building together from the beginning, not after the fact. Lived Experts shouldn’t just rubber-stamp ideas that are already finished. On QICEY, they helped shape the trainings, webinars, coaching tools, models, and resources — and that changes everything. Because professional expertise gives you system knowledge. Lived expertise gives you reality. When both are built together, the work becomes more practical, more relevant, and actually useful for the people it’s meant to serve. That’s the difference between inclusion and real collaboration. Worth saving. qic-ey.org