HR: Friend or Foe?
A staunch, stiff HR department or even a staunch, stiff leadership culture is less likely to partner with management to identify and dismantle the things that are disruptive to employee engagement.
Discrimination Proofing Your Environment
The Power of Perspective
Every person and every group has a story. For some reason we forget this. When we deny the struggle and the needs of any group, we are admitting that we have forgotten.
3 Reasons People Deny that Discrimination Exists
When people deny the reality of discrimination, racism and institutional racism, it may be due to a variety of reasons.
The 4 Ways to Use Fear to Inspire Change
Fear tactics or fearmongering…is a form of manipulation and can become dangerous when manipulating for individual or financial gain.
Why Being Colorblind is Bad for Inclusion
The way to raise non-racist children is not to create a society based on making others disappear through a self-imposed blindness, but it is to speak openly and honestly about the value people bring….
Investigating Bias & Discrimination: Protecting Your Organization from Common Barriers
There are multiple ways of protecting your organization from common barriers when investigating bias and discrimination but they only work if you’re committed to using them.
Six Steps to Creating Diversity in a Non-Corporate Setting
Creating diversity in a non-corporate setting is not much different than doing so in a corporate arena. The challenge is also no different.
Three Things You Need to Know about Reverse Discrimination Today
Opposing viewpoints and cries of reverse discrimination are bringing fiery attention to the historic possibility of the first Black woman being appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Here are three things you need to know about reverse discrimination.
Ten Disruptions for Change in Marginalized Education
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle*** In several recent conversations with a few teens, I was shocked to hear stories of how common it is, or was, to hear other students use racial and ethnic slurs …
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How Gaslighting Undermines Your Personal & Professional Confidence
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.*** A young 10 year old tells her teacher that a boy in her classroom keeps teasing, taunting and touching her. The teacher asks, “Did he hurt you?” “No,” the little …
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The Practical Application of Diversity & Cultural Competence
“Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.” – Verna Myers*** The year 2020 brought the shocking reality of the COVID-19 Pandemic, along with the piercing jolt to many Americans and millions of others across the world through the Black Lives Matter Movement. While the …
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Understanding Critical Race Theory
“The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.” – Jane Addams*** Critical Race Theory (CRT) is the idea that elements of racism exist within the major institutions of society, causing many of the inequities we have …
Leadership’s Role in Maintaining an Inclusive Environment
“Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.” – Author Unknown*** Tina was the leader of a small group of volunteers in a nonprofit organization. The group, however, facilitated programming that affected the entire organization, to include processing initial paperwork, onboarding and more. The small group assigned …
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What Diversity & Exclusion Really Look Like
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the future inaccessible.” – Maya Angelou*** The American dream – the belief that any person, regardless of where they were born, regardless of class at birth, has the ability to realize success whether that includes educational attainment, …
Driving Personalities Behind Diversity & Inclusion
“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.” – Malcolm Forbes*** Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is an exciting career path for the right personalities. In my work with various consultants, corporate professionals and community representatives, I found some interesting yet powerful personas. Caring Professionals There are two camps, in which most …
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Leadership Realities of Unconscious Bias
“Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.” – Benjamin Haydon*** Unconscious bias, also referred to as implicit bias, is often defined as prejudice or unsupported judgments we have accumulated in life that are in favor of or against a person, or group, that are usually considered …
Offsetting a New Rising Prejudice: AI Bias
“We need the ability to not only have high-performance models but also to understand when we cannot trust those models.” – Alexander Amini*** At a time when many organizations are looking forward to incorporating Artificial Intelligence into their systems and processes, for improved operations and efficiencies, up pops a new …
Understanding the Challenges of Diversity & Inclusion: Executive Viewpoints
“The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.” – Thomas Berry*** Lisa was an astute executive; highly respected by her peers while staff in her division were a bit intimidated by her. I often heard how intimidating she could be and how serious she was about productivity, deadlines and everything …
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