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Continue reading →: Justice Scalia and the Myth of the Black BrainThose of you who work in diversity or higher education are likely familiar with Fisher v. University of Texas, a case that set what many have called a landmark precedent for affirmative action in college admissions. The gist of the case is if higher education institutions should have programs aimed at…
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Continue reading →: LinkedIn Top Media Voices 2015Today started out like any other day. I came to work, dug in, started bossing people around, I’m kidding about everything past that second comma. But then the emails started. Everyone was congratulating me on being named one of LinkedIn’s top 10 media voices of the year. What a fabulous…
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Continue reading →: Breast Pumps and TerroristsEarlier this week a Sikh woman stood in line to board a Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis to LA. A nursing mother, she removed a luggage tag on her carry-on bag to facilitate access to her breast pump so she could make milk during the flight. One of her fellow…
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Continue reading →: To Benchmark or Not to Benchmark?Benchmarking is as common in learning and development as mobile learning is on cellphones. But that doesn’t mean it’s done well or that the data is useful. In September, Towards Maturity, a benchmarking research company, released that its Personalised Benchmark Report had experienced a record 25 percent increase in the…
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Continue reading →: Scandal: Mellie + Female Stereotypes = Bah HumbugSo I watched “Scandal” this week — of course — and Mellie finally got a break. After so many episodes of getting short shrift, she took her place at the head of the line and got some respect — Quiet, the junior senator from Virginia has the floor! In this…
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Continue reading →: A Safe SpaceMy alma matter, the University of Missouri, has been on fire this week. It began with graduate student Jonathan Butler’s hunger strike to protest increasingly tense race relations — and former President Tim Wolfe’s lack of response — which led to a show of solidarity from the Mizzou football team,…
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Continue reading →: Are You Wasting Money Developing Leaders?The most pressing issue at hand for human resources functions in most companies is leadership and talent development. Yet these same companies freely admit this is a keen area of weakness for them. These organizations waste millions of dollars each year developing workshops, coaching sessions and corporate universities that don’t…
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Continue reading →: One Million Judgmental MomsA Maryland family was surprised to find itself in the news last week after their children were featured in the November/December issue of “American Girl” magazine. What’s the big issue? The family has two dads. The magazine features 11-year-old Amaya Scheer and her three siblings. Scheer discusses her family’s charity,…
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Continue reading →: We Are Just Like YouOK, say this with me: Black people are not animals. We are human beings, just like everyone else. Now say this: Dark skin does not mean less than. It does not signal inferior. It is simply color, a superficial difference by which one can assume nothing. Repeat as needed until…
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