Is there an increase in the number of White Supremacists in the military? Is there an atmosphere of harmony across race or is it a haven for racist behavior? Should we be concerned? Or, is the military doing more to root them out, expose and persecute white supremacists and haters based on race? In my first self-produced podcast, “Every Day…
Conversations on Race for Everyday People- Race, Racism & Three Emmy Awards Episode 7- Race, Racism and 3 Emmys Producing Oprah Race, racism and racial bias are still challenges that people of color have to contend with in the pursuit of success. Engaging in everyday conversations on race, with people different than you is one way to reduce racism and…
Bias can be broken if you take the right steps. How do we deconstruct bias beyond awareness? How do we “break bias?” We have a filter in our brain that helps us interpret what we see and hear. It filters out information that is not threatening, not important and not in our perceived reality. We form our biases based on…
Whether we like it or not, everyone has bias. As much as many of us want to think of ourselves as unbiased, we are products of our personal history, messages we’ve received growing up from people around us, the media, peers and people in authority. We’ve also learned to interpret events based on our experiences and individual perspectives. Because we…
Does Your Organization Suffer From These Symptoms of “Hidden Genius Constipation”? 1- People in your organization have great ideas for new products and services but they have no outlet to express them. Innovation stays in the realm of the product development team, or with your “regular” stars. No matter how diverse your workforce is, if people can’t show what they can…
1- We can all benefit by becoming aware of our biases, not only about people who are different, but even about what we’ve heard about our own groups. Be open to the fact that you may have some unconscious stereotypes about LGBT people. Those stereotypes lead to assumptions about what an LGBTQ person may be thinking or why they are…
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner! Is It Diversity? In 1967 there was a comedy-drama about interracial marriage with Sydney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn, Beah Richards, and Spender Tracy. Interracial marriage was still illegal in some states when the film was made. At the time, the film and its subject were a “big deal.” While there are still people who “shudder” at…
The best way to lose great employees is to promote the wrong people based on narrow criteria. The President of one of my client companies asked for my help. Women and people of color in his division were leaving and being hired by his competitor. When I spoke to the vice-president of that division, he complained that people of color and women…
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…
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