Beyond the Ballot: What the 2026 Election Could Mean for Your Workplace
As a member of the Greater Cincinnati Human Rights Campaign and Chair of the Workplace Equality...
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Category: Point of View
What Dolly Parton Can Teach Us About Inclusion
Photo by Wes McFee on Unsplash In a country where it sometimes seems we can disagree about almost...
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Bullies Need Time Outs
Our diversity is what makes us special. Sometimes, childish fears try to overshadow the unique...
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The U.S. at 250, Juneteenth, and the Contradiction of Freedom
This year, the U.S. marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This month, we celebrate Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the day enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863. Together, these two celebrations reveal a contradiction.
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42 Years of DEI: Reflections, Realities, and the Road Ahead
Forty‑two years ago, when I founded The Winters Group, the field of diversity, equity, and...
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A Point of View: Who Gets to Decide What’s Racist?
I recently watched a clip from The View where reality star and social media influencer Savannah...
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A Point of View: My Fellow Humans
Scott Olson/Getty Images News via Getty Images My Fellow Humans, As I stare out at the –30°...
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A Point of View: 10 Personal Commitments for Healing Black Fatigue in 2026
Black fatigue has never been more real than how it manifested in 2025. Anti-Black racism reached...
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DEI “Branding Problems,” Scarcity, and an Increasingly Diverse World
We’re becoming more diverse, not less. Corporations, non-profits, colleges, hospitals, and professional associations would obviously like to reach and serve those potential customers, stakeholders, donors, students, patients, and members if they could. So despite what the President signs, the need for making our organizations more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and culturally aware hasn’t disappeared and will not go away.
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Wellness Is the Work: A DEI Imperative to Shape Cultures
It’s natural to focus directly on representation, access, and equity in opportunity when the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) comes up, but beneath all of that is something more elemental: wellness and well-being. A culture of equity cannot exist in a workplace where people are emotionally depleted, constantly performing, or disconnected from purpose.
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Building a More Inclusive World Depends on Validation of Others
As a laid off federal government employee, I am thirsting for validation. Validation is not only crucial to human beings, but to the work of inclusion–particularly in the context of how we make the case for inclusion to the increasing numbers of people who apparently reject the vision of an inclusive and just world order. Dr. Caroline Fleck has some important tips on how inclusion practitioners can become better influencers.
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When DEI Progress Stalls: A Systems Approach to Disrupting Resistance
They’ve labeled it divisive, declared an end to “illegal DEI discrimination,” and weaponized the myth of meritocracy to justify rolling back equity efforts. And while some organizations are giving in to the administration’s demands out of fear, I also wonder if some are using it as a convenient off-ramp from work they never truly valued in the first place.
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