Tag: diversity

Racial Justice at Work: Let’s Stay Focused on Systemic Change 

The current anti-diversity rhetoric became very loud only after organizations pledged to focus on racial diversity after the murder of George Floyd. Diversity, inclusion, and equity efforts center on many dimensions of identity in addition to race including gender and gender identity, military status, people with disabilities, religion, and generational differences. Diversity objectives are about all employees, not just those who are protected by legislation.

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Racial Justice at Work: Stop Centering Your Own Comfort

If you are ready to make real change for racial equity, this is the number one thing you have to do: Be willing to make yourself uncomfortable as you stop centering your own comfort. For organizations, I’ll offer two strategies you can implement to create meaningful change around racial equity.

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Storytelling Beyond the Numbers: Supplier Diversity is Good … Until It’s Not

Procurement decision makers need to listen more to the challenges and barriers faced by historically marginalized suppliers rather than focusing on teaching them how to fit into their processes. An analysis that asks who is harmed by this policy and who benefits can uncover inequities. Justice-centered procurement policies will benefit all suppliers — not just us small Black-owned businesses.

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Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change

Racial Justice at Work book cover

Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit

Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy and Belonging Across Differences

We Can’t Talk About That At Work! (Second Edition)

Cover of the book We Can't Talk about That at Work (Second Edition) by Mary-Frances Winters and Mareisha N Reese

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