On Saturday, February 27, 2016, from noon to 5 p.m., I had the opportunity to observe the African Diaspora Reading Group (ADRG) leadership meeting. The purpose of the leadership meeting was to plan the next “Complex Conversations” event and check in with leaders to see how their semester was going so far. Each year, ADRG hosts a large-scale event where topics from the African diaspora are discussed. Typically, each semester we have a leadership retreat, a day to get together and plan for the next semester, including the big event. However, we were unable to hold the retreat this semester. Saturday was the closest meeting to a leadership retreat we have had. Before the event, we had several unsuccessful phone meetings and short meetings before our weekly general meetings. Most leaders felt overwhelmed by college and increasing post-graduation stressors that made it difficult to focus on the event. However, overall, the meeting was successful. Background on the ADRG and its leaders and members The ADRG is a reading group of the Department of English. Dr. Mary Helen Washington and I found the reading group in the fall of 2014. I have been president since the organization's inception. When the leaders arrived, I had prepared the True Colors activity for them to do due to time constraints. Since leaders generally arrive late to meetings, I normally try to plan around their lateness. Delay has become an unhelpful culture at ADRG. In hindsight, I think it came from me. Sometimes I'm not the most punctual person. As we continued our exercise, I was very interested in seeing how our colors matched. Our leaders were all blue and green and only the leader was orange. After administering the test, I took a backseat and allowed the other leaders to follow the schedule I had made of the things we needed to accomplish that day and began my