Drawing from evidence gathered from 1,039 UK Black professionals, this tool evaluates the psychological and somatic toll of your current workplace environment.
The Institute's foundational research is ongoing. We are actively expanding our dataset.
Add your voice to the national surveyOur research identified fifteen specific burdens extracted from Black professionals, organised into five core categories. These taxes compound rather than diminish with career advancement, contradicting expectations that success brings security.
Evidence Stewardship | Infrastructure Building | Intergenerational Load
The unpaid "justice labour" performed to protect those who follow, encompassing evidence stewardship and intergenerational load.
Threshold Fatigue | Unresourced Sponsorship | Exposure without Protection
Challenges that paradoxically intensify with seniority, such as threshold fatigue and exposure without protection.
Bias Navigation | Microaggression Absorption | Representational Burden
These reflect institutional design and include bias navigation, microaggression absorption, and representational burden.
Code Switching | Voice Suppression | Emotional Regulation
These daily adaptations govern self-presentation, including code-switching, voice suppression, and emotional regulation.
Performance Burden | Proof Burden | Perfection Burden
These are the entry-level levies required just to establish baseline professional credibility: the performance, proof, and perfection burdens.
Answer the following 15 questions to calculate exactly which taxes are extracting the highest toll on your potential.
Based on your responses, these are the top 3 systemic taxes currently impacting your performance and wellbeing.
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