Kari Zee, Author at The Inclusion Solution

Setting the DEI Record Straight: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

Posted by Kari Zee | Apr 4, 2024 | Features, Recent Posts, Setting the DEI Record Straight | 0

Lack of diversity and exposure to different ways means that people don’t have a point of reference for comparison. Living in a world of sameness means that you are at risk of things being normalized that are not normal. Marginalized people know this all too well – they grow up normalizing being afraid of walking alone at night, of being pulled over by the cops, or of having the wrong hairstyle. By the time they reach adulthood, they’ve normalized living under constant stress and pressure, and they’ve learned to thrive despite it. This is why so many DEIJ practitioners put themselves on the front lines of doing this work – because overcoming a life full of obstacles is normal.

Racial Justice at Work: Stop Centering Your Own Comfort

Posted by Kari Zee | Mar 23, 2023 | Features, Racial Justice at Work, Recent Posts | 0

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.

Storytelling Beyond the Numbers: Assimilation and Tokenization Behind ‘Diversity Hiring’

Posted by Kari Zee | Oct 13, 2022 | Features, Recent Posts, Storytelling Beyond the Numbers | 0

Numbers are reliable and can tell you a lot. But they can also be manipulated and twisted to tell a false story by the person or entity using them. If you see an organization boasting about the success of diversity hiring efforts, it might be worth questioning why there was a need for diversity hiring efforts in the first place.

A Point of View: Your Desire to Make the World a Better Place Is Destroying You

Posted by Kari Zee | Sep 1, 2022 | Point of View, Recent Posts | 0

If you work in DEI and social justice, then you choose to place yourself into circumstances that will test your mental, physical, and emotional limits. You work long hours. You accept poor behavior. You stay longer than you should. But you must learn that you cannot make the world a better place by destroying yourself.

The Buzz: What Earth Day Teaches You About Burnout Prevention

Posted by Kari Zee | Apr 21, 2022 | Recent Posts, The Buzz | 0

As I define it, sustainability means not depleting your available resources for the duration of your life, so that you can continue to experience life on your terms. Earth Day is about protecting the environment so that our available environmental resources will stay intact for the rest of our lives and be around for future generations. So, if we want to live a life that doesn’t burn us out, we have to learn to protect our available resources in the form of our mental, physical, and emotional well-being, and we’ve got to do it in a way that we can maintain.

Author: Kari Zee

Setting the DEI Record Straight: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

Racial Justice at Work: Stop Centering Your Own Comfort

Storytelling Beyond the Numbers: Assimilation and Tokenization Behind ‘Diversity Hiring’

A Point of View: Your Desire to Make the World a Better Place Is Destroying You

The Buzz: What Earth Day Teaches You About Burnout Prevention

Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change

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)

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