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Continue reading →: Black or Female, Which is Worse?I’ve been obsessed by one question lately. And it was brought home to me in stereo just last week when the New York Police Department stripped Sgt. Kizzy Adonis of her badge in connection with Eric Garner’s July 2014 death. It was just so ridiculous. She had nothing to do…
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Continue reading →: Can a White Man Lead Diversity?So I was talking to Dr. Shirley Davis, former head of diversity at Society for Human Resource Management, recently about this and that, and she mentioned the new head of diversity at Twitter was a white man. I’d heard of the appointment as we rang in the New Year, and…
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Continue reading →: Is Ignorance Bliss?Ordinarily I’d have plucked something from the news – like the horrible but not unexpected exoneration of the police officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice – to write about this week. But like many of you, as the New Year approaches I’m contemplating life and work in 2016. Of course,…
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Continue reading →: Not Talking About Diversity Makes You a Racist?Rosalind Brewer, the CEO of Sam’s Club, has been all over the news this week thanks to a recent CNN video interview. The birds are squawking loudly for her blood, or at the very least, her resignation, which I find incredibly odd given the interview’s contents. In it she talks…
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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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