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Continue reading →: You Sound White…Really? ‘Cuz Webster is for everyone #diversity #communication
I’m no expert on web series, but The Unwritten Rules is exceedingly well done, fearless and spot on. I recommend it for anyone who wants to teach diversity and inclusion through a visual medium. If I had a c-note for every time someone said “you sound white” to me, or…
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Continue reading →: Strategy Diversity Management: Are We There Yet? #diversity #business
Things are moving in the right direction, but we’re not there yet. Still, we keep working on it – what choice do we have? None! – by removing bias from the workplace and different talent management processes, broadening diversity from a talent-focused practice to one rooted in business strategy and…
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Continue reading →: Your Beautiful Isn’t Mine #inclusion #beauty @estherhonig
Journalist Esther Honig released the results of her experiment in Photoshop this week. She asked 25 people around the world to “make me beautiful,” and gave them license to do that with her photo any way they liked. The results offer a very simple lesson: We all have different ideas…
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Continue reading →: If black people said the things white people so often do…#diversity #inclusion
This video is frickin’ hilarious. It should have been sad and weird and uncomfortable, but this dialogue is so familiar it just couldn’t be. It’s obviously meant to educate in a light and humorous way, and I hope that’s how people take it.
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Continue reading →: One Female Does Not a Movement Make #gender #diversity
So I’m not a huge tennis fan, but I have been known to watch the occasional men’s match when I catch one on. Apparently Andy Murray, no. 5 ranked player in the world, has hired himself a female coach, retired former top-ranked female Amélie Mauresmo. At first I didn’t understand…
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Continue reading →: Just Marry! Who? Anybody! #gender #marriage
Ladies, did you know if you marry your baby’s daddy you can save yourself from male violence? Me neither. But earlier this week Bradford Wilcox and Robin Fretwell Wilson published a piece in the Washington Post titled “One Way to End Violence? Stop Taking Lovers and Get Married.” *crickets chirping*…
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Continue reading →: Succession Planning and Learning in the State of Tennessee #government #learning
Everything you ever wanted to know about succession planning and learning strategy for the State of Tennessee. Okay, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but Chief Learning Officer Trish Holliday took time to talk in detail with me about the impact her work has had on the state and on…
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Continue reading →: We Have The Power #fashion #diversity
A friend and I were talking about an article I read on how several major designers, unnamed of course, refused to dress actress Melissa McCarthy for the 2012 Oscars. I said, well, she’s fat. Most designers are concerned with elevating their brands, not dressing the masses of people who she more accurately represents.…
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Continue reading →: Misogyny: The Big, Pink Elephant #ElliotRodger #gender
Growing up I always knew that being black might cause problems for me. But it was only after I was an adult that I realized how many problems being a woman would cause. Luckily, I’ve never been physically abused, nor have I been targeted by a mass-murdering virgin with an…
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