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Abusive Leadership and Toxic Organizational Culture - Anonymous employee Preemptive Love Employee Review

1.0
Jun 8, 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Made some lifelong friendships, learned a lot about peacemaking from fellow employees (not the leadership), learned a lot about how NOT to run an organization.

Cons

Over the last 5 years, the leaders of this organization (Jeremy Courtney and Jessica Courtney) have made a series of decisions that have created a horribly abusive, manipulative and toxic organizational culture. Their primary goal seems to be collecting as much power and platform as they can by any means necessary. They bully into silence anyone they see as a threat to their power, only value people who are famous or well-connected, and demand absolute unwavering "loyalty" from everyone on the team (which means never questioning them or anything they do, no matter how awful). Emotional abuse is extremely common, as are threats, and insults. Multiple employees have struggled to leave and felt trapped because they've been made to feel like they'll never succeed outside the organization, but they're also not able to succeed within the organization because of toxic internal politics. The leadership also has a pattern of being ignorant about important and nuanced cultural issues like race, gender, and LGBTQ issues and other topics and then making tone-deaf, or outright offensive statements to people affected by those issues. Multiple women left because they felt held down by the organization and many people of color have left after experiencing awful things there as well. Many ex-employees end up connecting to commiserate and work through their trauma from working there, but I'm not the only one who ended up in therapy to process and heal from the things I experienced. On top of that, their messaging about their work can sometimes be misleading (for example when "they" were working "in" Syria) and they've straight up said that they will only work in places and within conflicts if it's getting news coverage... because why bother helping people if no one sees you do it?

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