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Submit ReviewEvery DEI issue is a business problem.
Some companies get it, some don’t, while others are struggling to connect the dots between best intentions and tangible results.
There are a lot of barriers and threats to DEI. And in this episode, Dr. Jade Singleton sheds light on some of the issues surrounding DEI and more:
- What is attributional ambiguity?
- Reasons people gaslight themselves
- What is survivorship bias
- Difficult challenges DEI professionals are currently facing
- Employee value proposition and why it’s important in DEI
- Inconsistencies between the company’s reputation and its DEI practices
- The Sarah Jane Academy: the women behind the mission
- The meaning of equity for Dr. Jade Singleton
- “...work harder…”: dealing with microinvalidations at work
- Career advise for women and women of color
- The common themes of corporate gaslighting
Dr. Jade Singleton is the co-founder of Johnson Squared LLC, a consulting company that creates and leads forward-leaning corporate DEIB conversations, employee experiences, policies, and paths to equity. It infuses psychological safety, equitable work strategies, and an agile approach throughout its forward-leaning model.
She is also the co-founder of the Sarah Jane Academy, a program designed to fill the need for DEI tactics and a highly-regarded DEI certificate without cost barriers.
Dr. Jade holds a Master of Science in Business Management and a Master of Arts in Leadership & Communications from Gonzaga University. She is currently a doctoral candidate at George Fox University, earning her Doctorate of Education in Instructional Design.
Dr. Jade has spent more than a decade leading impactful communications, people and leadership strategies at the nation’s top non-profit and investment banking firms.
Her research work, Leadership Challenges: African-American Communication in the Corporate Environment, has been leveraged and cited by academic scholars over 75 times and DEIB professionals at all stages of DEIB learning and practice.
Dr. Jade created Johnson Squared, together with her sister Noelle, for companies and professionals that are serious about real change.
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There's enough evidence that the business case for DEI is robust and there's an overwhelmingly positive result for companies and employees.
Surely, there are a few organizations that are nailing it, but in most cases, DEI efforts across the board are spotty, reactive, and episodic, lack strategic follow-through and accountability, and sometimes have completely ineffective results.
What can be done to stop the lip service and reverse the tide of apathy, dysfunction, and inaction?
In this podcast episode, Farzin is sharing:
- Are white men the solution to DEI problems within organizational systems?
- Communal power of leadership vs. individualistic type of leadership - which is the better option?
- The impact of existing leadership structures on DEI programs and efforts in the workplace
- The most difficult part of implementing a DEI program
- Are the DEI efforts conducted by employers really empowered enough to be able to make a change within the workplace environment?
- What is Critical Equity Consulting and how it helps different organizations achieve their DEI goals
- What are the top three diversity issues you've seen in the workplace and why do you think companies struggle to address these issues?
Farzin Farzad is the founder of Critical Equity Consulting, LLC, a boutique Organizational Justice consulting firm focused on helping organizations rebuild with a primary focus on creating equitable outcomes.
Farzin is an Organizational Justice practitioner with experience in higher education, local government, and the private sector. Holding two master’s degrees in international affairs and diplomacy as well as a certificate in conflict resolution skills, Farzin leverages his unique academic background, extensive travel experience, and experiential knowledge to provide comprehensive, thought-provoking local and global approaches to his work.
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Mentioned in this episode:
- [Book] Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini
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- Twitter - @FarzinFarzad
- Website
- Twitter - @Critical_Equity
- Company LinkedIn
- Instagram - @criticalequity
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What is power? And what does it mean to have power?
How does power influence the dynamics and relationships in the workplace?
And what does it take to dismantle the oppressive systems that exist within the workplace?
Power can be both a positive and a negative trait, depending on the way it is used. When there’s a power struggle, conflicts can arise. And when there’s exploitative or coercive use of power it becomes an oppressive force.
In today’s episode, Jeff Couillard, the Co. CEO of The Ally Co., will help us understand:
- What is power
- The 5 types of power and how they come into play in the systems that exist in the workplace
- Why overcoming addiction makes people powerful
- The best course of action when transforming the leadership and the systems in the workplace
- How power affects a company's effort to change the system and chase down root problems
- The importance of accountability in leadership
Jeff is also the Director of Learning and Development at The Ally Co., and the host of The Leaderful Podcast, a show that explores human-centered, systems-conscious approaches to leadership and building high-functioning teams.
Jeff loves all things teaching, facilitating, speaking, and consulting. And his mission is to help people connect with their power, align with what’s most meaningful, and take positive action toward it.
The Ally Co. is a company that helps create leaderful organizations that are value-based and inclusive workplace teams where people consciously use their power to create meaningful connections and positive impact.
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Mentioned in this episode:
- Right Use of Power Institute
- how-adverse-childhood-experiences-aces-can-affect-children.acm1499"> ACEs Study
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- Website
- Youtube - @theallyco.4662
- The Leaderful Podcast
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Is the glorification of hustle culture doing us more bad than good?
And with all this hustle grinding, is it still possible to set healthy boundaries in the workplace?
How are the recent trending topics on quick quitting and quiet quitting related to hustle culture? Are they really a trend or the truth?
Join us in this episode as we dive deep into these issues and find out what you can do when you find yourself in challenging workplace situations.
Our special guest, Selena Rezvani is going to talk about:
- The toxicity of hustle culture
- How to set healthy boundaries in a workplace dominated by hustle culture
- The hidden costs of unlimited PTO
- The erosion of trust and the rise of quick quitting, quiet quitting, and quiet firing
- Self-advocacy and how to nurture confidence to speak up for yourself
- The signs of a healthy, happy workplace
Selena Rezvani is a women's leadership speaker, a mom, a culture disruptor, and a consultant on leadership.
She is also a recognized author with her debut book, The Next Generation of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead but Won't Learn in Business School, and her newest book, Pushback: How Smart Women Ask — and Stand Up — for What They Want.
She writes today for NBC Know Your Value. In addition, Selena wrote an award-winning column on women and leadership for The Washington Post. In 2018, her TEDx talk entitled, Interrupting Gender Bias Through Meeting Culture, was recognized with a Croly Journalism Award.
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- Youtube
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For so many years, women are forced to choose between balancing the physical and emotional needs of being a new mother and the financial needs of returning to work.
It’s 2022. This needs to change.
It’s time to prioritize parental leave by having better systems in place to help new parents transition smoothly, strengthen their families, and continue to build better careers.
All these are at the core of the new book, The Parental Leave Playbook: 10 Touchpoints to Transition Smoothly, Strengthen Your Family, and Continue Building Your Career.
Our guests for this episode are authors Dr. Amy Beacom and Sue Campbell of the Center for Parental Leave Leadership.
In today's conversation, we will cover important topics like:
- The Parental Leave Playbook
- The 3-phase transition of parental leave
- How the Center for Parental Leave Leadership helps families during and beyond the pandemic
- Unpacking the holistic approach of the RETAIN Parental Leave Coaching
- What you should consider when announcing your pregnancy
- Why employers are making a big mistake letting go of parent employees
- Is there a conflict between (making a) profit and doing the right thing?
- A critical step when transitioning to parental leave
- Developing your paper trail and protecting yourself
- Helping fathers take parental leave to its fullest
Dr. Amy is the Founder and CEO of the Center for Parental Leave Leadership, the first consultancy in the US to focus exclusively on parental leave. Drawing on over 25 years in executive leadership development and coaching, Amy consults with Fortune 100 companies, international organizations, and working parents, transforming the way our companies and our country engage with the parental leave transition.
Sue is a writer, author, and coach who has worked with the Center for Parental Leave Leadership since its inception, helping to communicate the transformative impact of their core mission. Her professional background includes twelve years in public service, seven of those as a business systems analyst leading projects and teams to deliver process improvements through technology.
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- Instgram - @cplleadership
- Facebook - @centerforparentalleaveleadership
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For decades, women generally kept quiet about sexual harassment in the workplace.
But since the inception of the #MeToo movement, women have been encouraged to speak up. The movement emboldened a lot of women to use their voices which led to more stories to this day.
Our special guest, Lisa Bowman, a workplace sexual harassment survivor, recalls her own experience with her “harasshole”.
In today’s episode, Lisa is sharing:
- What led her to write the book, Harasshole
- Why it’s hard to speak up against sexual harassment
- The fear of speaking up and what causes them
- What it’s like speaking up for the first time
- The details of her experience with her harasshole
- What is a harasshole?
- How to deal with your harasshole in the workplace and the two important things you need to do
- The things you shouldn’t do when it comes to HR and the systems the company put in place
- Why sexual harassment is primarily about power
- How her book can help you
Lisa is the former global Chief Marketing Officer of United Way Worldwide. She was terminated from her role in January of 2020 in retaliation for reporting sexual harassment of herself and others by a peer on the Executive Team.
As a female leader, Lisa felt that to stay silent was to be complicit in condoning this and providing a path forward for this behavior to continue. She went public with her story via HuffPost in November of 2020 fueling significant media coverage that subsequently led to the resignation of United Way’s long-standing CEO on February 9, 2021.
Lisa authored the book, Harasshole: A Cautionary Tale of My Time at “America’s Favorite Charity” where she narrates her allegations of harassment and retaliation that eventually resulted in her termination.
Lisa has become one of the latest public faces of #MeToo.
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Links Mentioned:
- (Book) Harasshole: A Cautionary Tale of My Time at “America’s Favorite Charity”
- (Article) United Way Accused Of Retaliation Against Women Employees
Connect with Lisa Bowman:
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- Instgram - @harasshole_book
- Twitter - @harasshole
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Diversity is a critical factor for many job seekers nowadays.
Not knowing if the company you’re applying for is really committed to diversity, equity and inclusion can lead you into a trap.
In this episode, we are talking to Ekow Sanni-Thomas, the Founder and CEO of Inside Voices.
Dubbed as the Glassdoor for diversity, Inside Voices is set out to bring change to the workplace by helping job seekers make informed choices when deciding where to work by reviewing a company’s track record for diversity and inclusion through employees’ honest, unedited, anonymous company reviews.
In this interview, Ekow shared how he founded the company to become one of the solutions to the damaging effects of racism in the workplace and as a way to hold companies accountable.
He also shares:
- His first-hand experience with racial discrimination from his previous work
- The discriminatory patterns from co-workers that you should watch out for
- The emotional and mental impact of racism
- Why it’s difficult for victims of racial discrimination to specify race as the motive behind the treatment
- How Inside Voices works - what it does to empower job seekers and the change it hopes to achieve in the workplace
- The difference in terms of workplace experience of people of color in the UK vs the US
- What do companies, and the society, need to do to increase workplace diversity and inclusion
Hit play to hear all these and more.
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- Instagram - @insidevoices.io
- Facebook - @insidevoices.io
- Twitter - @insidevoices_io
- Tiktok - @insidevoices.io
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When it comes to DEI initiatives, is the bare minimum effort really authentic?
And do companies fully understand what they are doing and why they’re doing it?
We encountered a powerful tweet from Dr. Monica Cox, that bravely calls out companies of what they are doing and hoping to achieve with their efforts. And the tweet says:
“Instead of showing me your diversity statement, show me your hiring data, your discrimination claim stats, your salary tables, your retention numbers, your diversity policies, and your leaders’ public actions against racism. End performative allyship.”
Today, we have Dr. Monica Cox on the show and we are going to talk about the issues surrounding diversity and inclusion efforts and what it takes to have impactful authentic DEI strategies.
Dr. Cox will also discuss:
- What companies should do if they are committed to their DEI goals
- The things companies need to change to become more authentic, diverse, and inclusive
- Why courage and bravery are necessary to shift the mindset of people and push against institutions when doing diversity, equity, and inclusion work
- The root cause of oppression and how it affected the rights, privileges, and experiences of people of color
- Understanding the transactional nature of your relationship with work and how you can protect yourself in that space
Dr. Monica Cox is a disruptor, trailblazer, change agent, and leader who believes in living an authentic life even if it makes people uncomfortable. As a coach, she guides clients in areas of career development, business strategy, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
She’s a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at The Ohio State University and CEO of STEMinent LLC, a brand that houses a variety of STEM education offerings.
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Resources and Links Mentioned:
- [Book] Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy
Connect with Dr. Monica Cox:
- Website
- Instagram: @drmonicacox
- Facebook: @drmonicacox
- Twitter: @DrMonicaCox
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The challenges we face in and out of the workplace - racial inequalities, racial biases, discrimination, etc. - all come down to one thing, known as bias.
In this week’s episode, we are going to talk about bias and we are joined by Anu Gupta, a scientist, educator, lawyer, and the Founder and CEO of BE MORE with Anu, an Edtech company that trains people in breaking bias to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging (DEIB), and justice in workplaces and communities.
As a DEI practitioner, Anu discussed what is bias, where it comes from, his experience in tackling it, and the effective tools that he uses to help companies and organizations break the bias.
Anu also shared:
- His first experience with bias and what led him to founding Be More with Anu
- The effects of media-generated stereotypes and misinformation
- What is Breaking Racial Bias and how it can help your DEI goals
- The four components of systemic racism
- (DEIB) Why belonging is essential and the ultimate outcome of DEI
- How to identify biases in the workplace
- Using the PRISM tools in addressing workplace bias
- Seeking accountability and the reasons why companies and perpetrators are resistant to being held accountable
Anu Gupta is a sought-after expert in breaking bias, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), entrepreneurship, mindfulness, and compassion. He has brought BE MORE’s approach to over 300 companies reaching over 50,000 professionals. He has spoken about this work at TED, SXSW, and the Oprah Conversation.
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Resources and Links Mentioned:
- [Article] Updated study outlines potential gains to U.S. economy and a pathway for economic growth (2018) by Kellogg Foundation - https://bit.ly/KelloggStudy2018
- [Article] Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism - https://nyti.ms/3wr9NWX
- EP16 How Implicit Biases Undermines DEI Training and Initiatives in the Workplace with Prof. Joan C. Williams - https://apple.co/3ihIgP3
Connect with Anu Gupta and BE MORE with Anu:
- Website: https://bemorewithanu.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bemorewithanu/
- Instagram: @bemorewithanu
- Facebook: @bemorewithanu
- Twitter: @bemorewithanu
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In light of #MeToo, it has come to our knowledge that the issue of sexual harassment is very rampant in the workplace and in any industry. And it still is, to this day.
This special episode with Shelley Ross is our backstage ticket to see what it was like to work in a highly competitive environment where predators and enablers thrive for decades.
Shelley Ross is a three-time award-winning journalist, author, a former Executive Producer at ABC News and CBS News, and a former Producer at NBC News. She’s now the President of The Cure Alliance, a nonprofit healthcare organization.
Shelley is a 40-year advocate for equality and anti-sexual harassment in the workplace.
In today’s podcast, Shelley shares:
- Her role in The Cure Alliance and its astonishing work in developing cures for chronic, debilitating, and fatal diseases including Covid-19
- Her first encounter with sexual harassment working at NBC
- The ugly truth why sexual harassment exists in every industry
- What’s the immediate important measure to address sexual harassment in the workplace
- The role of enablers in the prevalence of sexual harassment
- How diversity and equality can help curb sexual harassment issues in the workplace
Resources and Links Mentioned:
- The Cure Alliance - https://www.thecurealliance.org/
Connect with Shelley Ross and Cure Alliance:
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelleyzross/
- The Cure Alliance Website - https://www.thecurealliance.org/
- The Cure Alliance Twitter - @CureAlliance
- The Cure Alliance Facebook - @thecurealliance
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