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The Importance of Knowing Your Why: 4 Ways to Frame Your Diversity Initiative
By Rosalyn Taylor O'Neale | Nov 2, 2018 Every day, good and virtuous people who have intentionally or blindly stumbled into managing and leading others are faced with questions that test their personal and professional mettle. These questions come from every part of...
Creating an Inclusive Environment for Remote Employees
Remote work can bring significant benefits to a company by allowing it to look beyond its headquarters to attract top talent. Companies open to remote employment experience access to a larger talent pool, lower overhead costs, and improved productivity. Employees who...
Managing Power Dynamics in the Corporate Classroom with Creating Training Methods
Is Diversity & Inclusion training one of the steps toward your organizational diversity and inclusion goals? Training can often ignite a cultural shift for organizations; moving them from patterns of inequity to conscious and inclusionary practices. However, few...
Cook Ross Announces New CEO
For the last five years, Michael has been gradually taking more and more leadership responsibility, and for the past couple of years expertly guiding the company’s strategic direction and managing all day-to-day operations.” Under Michael’s leadership as Managing...
How to Build an Inclusive Learning Strategy
Whether you’re a learning and development practitioner or leading your organization’s diversity and inclusion initiatives, you should be asking the question: How inclusive is my learning strategy? Education and training are foundational to many of the interventions we...
It Will Work: Starbucks Gets it Right
I’ve read several pieces that express an opinion that the training day at Starbucks “won’t work.” I am reminded that one person or organization can significantly contribute to change; it was one woman, Rosa Parks, who galvanized the Civil Rights Movement; it was one...
When Do We Boycott?
Over the past few days the airways have been filled with news about Starbucks. If you haven’t been hiding away somewhere then you know that two African American men were arrested for trespassing in a Philadelphia store, though they had committed no act other than to...
Unconscious Bias: Here Again (P.S. It Never Went Away)
Of course, the decision to call the police on the two Black guys sitting and waiting at a Starbucks for a business meeting was an example of unconscious bias. Seeing them sitting there, wanting to use the restroom, and not buying any food or drink made them seem...
Beyond the Inclusion Rider: 4 Pathways to More Diverse Films in Hollywood
About halfway through the 2018 Oscars ceremony, three women walked on stage and approached the microphone. Annabella Sciorra, Ashley Judd, and Salma Hayek had all come forward in the past year with stories of being sexually harassed or assaulted by studio mogul Harvey...
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