By Jo Faragher The Woolf Institute’s Diversity Study of England and Wales surveyed almost 12,000 people and found that 76% of employees work in a shared office that is ethnically diverse. Workers in the North East, North West and Wales are 70% more likely than those in London to work only with British colleagues. Institute […]Read More
By Jo Burkholder In the midst of ongoing protests across the US, it will come as no surprise to many that forwarding diversity in the workplace has not seen great success. In some sectors, things have slipped from where they were at the turn of the millennium. With calls for racial justice growing and evidence of progress lacking, […]Read More
By Andrea S. Kramer and Alton B. Harris We normally think of stereotypes as preconceived ideas we have about other people because of their gender, race, domestic situation, or other social identity. However, we also have stereotypes about ourselves because of our own social identities. Thus, we are likely to unconsciously hold assumptions about our […]Read More
By Julia Wuench Though the U.S. still has a long way to go, many companies have made a considerable effort to make their workplaces more fair and equitable for women. Forbes ranks the nation’s best employers for women every year. This year’s top 3 were REI, Unilever and Ulta Beauty. While the Forbes top companies may have great […]Read More
Challenging the myths around the one -ism that affects all of us. By Tina Essmaker Illustration by Javier Suarez “This is the one -ism that affects every single one of us,” Cindy Gallop, the self-proclaimed Michael Bay of business, told me. She continued, “Say your age from as early as possible and as often as possible.” Gallop does […]Read More
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
By Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony J Mayo “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which [one] has overcome while trying to succeed.” Booker T. Washington, the educator, author, activist, and presidential adviser, wrote those words more than a century ago […]Read More
By Tanya Tarr In business and life, success hinges on managing a game of expectations. In times of deep uncertainty – like now – it can be nearly impossible to win that game. So how do you increase your odds of success? Whether it’s a pandemic, international deployment or on-boarding into a new organizational world, […]Read More
By Minda Harts In the early 2000s, I met a woman on the subway in Chicago who told me she worked from home. At the time, it was a foreign concept to me. I had the impression that in order to “work,” one needed to leave their home and physically go into a building. I remember […]Read More
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