You may be this year’s leadership award winner, but you can be next year’s leader on the unemployment line, if you don’t practice inclusionist behavior in your organization. In this months’ Lieberman Learning Letter, we talk about three of the ten key behaviors that leaders need to practice in order to be considered inclusive. We’d love to hear about your…
When I first began Diversity and Inclusion work in organizations over 20 years ago, there were those in the D&I community who did not think that LGBT people had a seat at the Diversity table. Race and gender and other dimensions of diversity had a seat, but if you were a Black lesbian, a Jewish gay man, or a Latino…
Are Your Employees Sending Their Robot Surrogates to Work? Several years ago, we conducted an organizational assessment for the president of a mid-size company who wanted to build a more diverse workforce. As a result of the assessment, we helped his executive team revamp their recruiting and hiring strategy to be more inclusive, and increase diversity amongst their new hires….
I want to share a cautionary tale about discrimination at a local business. Although it occurred here in Berkeley, it can happen at any business, of any size, anywhere, unless preventive action is taken. Kamau Bell, a nationally known comedian who is African-American was standing outside of an upscale cafe showing a book on interracial families to his wife who…
Three Ways to Prevent Discrimination in Your Business Whether discrimination is unintentional or intentional, the impact is the same, and no amount of rationalization makes it acceptable. Here are three ways you can prevent discrimination in your business. 1- Be conscious of your personal biases and learns to filter them out. Bias and wrong assumptions won’t go away without intervention….
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