Middle managers’ work requires balancing and harmonizing very different voices, perspectives, and requests from those who they supervise and those whom they report to. Such balancing and harmonizing has become even more challenging in our current workplace climate, where more and more systematic changes are being asked for by staff, driven by DEIA/J-related concerns. In this environment, middle managers often come to feel that they are only receiving demands from both groups –their supervisees and supervisors– without support or resources from either. Many middle managers express a sense of lacking power and agency to create changes that they want to see in their organization. And this challenge and the sense of insufficient agency is a challenge for managers at all levels, because all managers are middle managers to whom they report to, no matter how senior their role may be. The goal of this session is to help managers develop more awareness of their positional power and a deeper and more nuanced understanding of both their agency and accountability through a DEIA lens. This will allow them to better balance, harmonize, and juggle distinct voices and requests that they receive, while exercising their agency and positional power in an appropriate, thoughtful, and effective manner. For this goal, this session will guide participants to review and reflect on their managerial relationships and associated power dynamics through group discussion and exercises. Slides at https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/194078