How Virgin Airlines is role modeling DEI (and you can too) Published October 19, 2022 Did you hear? Virgin Airlines recently rolled out a gender-neutral dress code for their flight attendants! I had a moment where I felt really foolish when I first read about the policy. I said to my daughter, “this is great. Male and …
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How queer-friendly is your workplace? Published October 5, 2022 “The most important piece for me is safety.” Those are the words of my friend and colleague, when I asked what’s “top of mind” for him regarding support LGBTQ+ employees in the workplace. Break it down: Next Tuesday, October 11th, is National Coming Out Day celebrated …
Why it might be time to leave your DEI role Published August 3, 2022 “I feel like I failed at my job,” said Sarah. She was stuck in the paradoxical position that a lot of people in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) roles are stuck in: it’s your job to make change, yet your hands are …
Land of the free? Home of the brave? Published July 6, 2022 Independence Day didn’t feel celebratory this year. And not just because the Supreme Court just ruled that women and people with uteruses don’t deserve human rights. It’s that, plus the threat to LGBTQ+ human rights, plus mass murder of children and elders with legal weapons, plus racism and white …
Why I don’t “celebrate” Juneteenth Published June 22, 2022 Not long ago, I was asked to give a Juneteenth talk. I said “no.” Break it down: I didn’t know what Juneteenth was until a few years ago. My parents grew up in Guyana, and our family didn’t move to the United States until I was …
Two ways you can challenge the stigma of mental health in the workplace Published April 20, 2022 “I just stood there naked.” That’s how my colleague Natasha Bowman describes revealing her struggles with mental health. This is how she put it: Not enough people feel safe discussing their mental health challenges. Not enough people are able …
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What I DO NOT understand about DEI Published April 6, 2022 When comments like this come across my desk, I rarely feel surprise. I hear some variation of “DEI is only an excuse to give people jobs because of their skin color and not because they earned them” all the time. But something about this YouTube …
What to do when someone calls out your unconscious bias 😬 Published March 23, 2022 What started as a post about a child being bullied at school turned into an unconscious bias lesson for the ages. Break it down: Take a look at the post on the left. What do you assume about the child …
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When it comes to DEI, are most leaders planning to fail? Published February 9, 2022 You can’t see the view from a tower when you’re still standing on the ground. From the ground, all you see are walls. Your perspective is limited, and you can’t possibly know what the vista will be from the top. …
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How to speak up against bias… without losing your job 😬 Published September 29, 2021 During a client training session, someone asked, “what do you do when you hear a microaggression and you want to say something, but you don’t feel you have enough power?” In other words: how do you speak up without putting yourself …
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