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Lakiba Pittman is a Lecturer in Arts & Sciences at Menlo College, where she teaches Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging in the Workplace, Cultural Expressions in Media, Race & Racism, and Transition to College. She began her professional career at Hewlett Packard/Agilent Technologies, where she held roles in leadership development, diversity strategy, and talent management for over two decades. After leaving the corporate world, she launched her own consulting practice focused on organizational leadership, diversity and inclusion planning, and healing-informed culture change for companies, nonprofits, and educational institutions.
Lakiba brings together a rich tapestry of lived experience as an educator, business consultant, mindfulness facilitator, and creative artist. She designs and leads specialized workshops on compassionate leadership, cultural intelligence, and trauma-informed practice using mindfulness, storytelling, and somatic approaches. She facilitates programs with Stanford’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), The Compassion Institute, Compassion Education Alliance, and Healing Together.
A doctoral student at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), her research explores the role of creative and spiritual practices in healing generational and systemic trauma within Black and BIPOC communities. She is also developing curriculum in Compassionate Leadership for future course offerings at Menlo College and facilitates healing-centered programming through Healing Together, a community-based initiative focused on racialized trauma, resilience, and collective care.
Lakiba holds advanced certifications in compassion cultivation, trauma healing, and mindfulness-based practices from Stanford University, the UCSD Center for Mindfulness, and other national organizations.
She is the author of Bread Crumbs From the Soul: Finding Your Way Back Home—a book of original poetry, personal stories, and art rooted in her journey of transformation—and a contributing writer in the acclaimed anthology Black Fire—This Time, Volumes I and II (2022, 2024).
