Shannon Whittington, RN, MSN, CCM, LGBTQ+ Health certified, is a published author and certified speaker with the John Maxwell team. Her areas of expertise include LGBTQ+, inclusiveness, Diversity & Inclusion, and Servant Based Leadership. Shannon has a passion for transgender health and she educates clinicians in gender affirming surgeries. Shannon was greatly honored to receive […]Read More
Kanarys advisor Steve Buchareti recently spoke on workplace fairness in part one of his two-part presentation. Steve is the president of Bucherati Group and retired from Coca-Cola where he was the global chief diversity officer. Below are some of the learnings from his presentation, “How the Coca-Cola Company Became a Best-in-Class Fair and Equitable Workplace.” […]Read More
The need for inclusivity and diversity is at an all time high. As the nation continues to grapple with the ways systemic racism affects the everyday lives of Black men and women and people of color, the people whose experiences with racism have left them changed are no longer silent. On social sites, from around […]Read More
Once upon a time, we were normal. Employees worked primarily in company offices, with some more progressive workplaces allowing their teams to work remotely. Unemployment was at the lowest it’s been in decades, the economy was being driven by record highs in the stock market, and life was good. Until it wasn’t. Enter the new normal. […]Read More
There is an underlying current that runs through the lives of Black people, one that managers or coworkers of other races may never know about, no matter how well-meaning your engagement may be with your team.Read More
Multi-generation workplaces are standard but that doesn’t mean that all generations are valued the same. Read More
The pandemic and ensuing move to work and learn from home environments is revealing that the assumptions we have about access to success are unlikely true...Read More
Isolation due to stay-at-home orders, mandated or by personal choice, is affecting the day to day mental health of millions of workers. For people with substance abuse and addiction issues, separation from communities of support can exacerbate anxiety and depression issues. Addiction Issues by the Numbers According to an April 2020 study by Alcohol.org, up […]Read More
Kanarys recently had an informative conversation with Lisa Ong, president and founder of Wishing Out Loud LLC, about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had, and will likely continue to have, on the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) workforce. Read More
Recently Kanarys hosted Chris Moreland, Chief Inclusion and Diversity Advocate at Vizient, Inc., the largest member-driven health care performance improvement company in the country, for a webinar on the silver lining on inclusion through COVID-19. Chris shared insight from the perspective of not only the healthcare industry, which is experiencing a shift due to the […]Read More