 For you as leaders to take on the large-scale, long-term, and institution-wide roots of systemic racism, you must have the cognitive capacity to appreciate and address complex adaptive systems. Developing vertically expands your cognitive capacity for enhanced sense-making, nuanced thinking, and resilience. To grapple with tough issues amidst unprecedented complexity, leaders require higher-order thinking to hold multiple perspectives, broaden scope and universality of thought, to identify themes, trends, and patterns across disparate threads of information, and the ability to accept and be comfortable with paradox, ambiguity, and discomfort. Progress on the challenges of injustice and hate requires leaders who have the capacity and resilience to contribute to systemic change. Vertical development of yourselves, your people, teams, and organizations will help you gather the resources and momentum needed to influence real change. Lead well this week.