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Operationalizing Justice: What One White Leader is Learning on the Journey

I’m a white executive team member for a global human resources consulting, technology and administration firm. We have more than 2,000 employees, with a significant presence in the U.S. This is the story of how I became a member of our newly-formed Black Leadership Council, as their executive advocate champion and ally, and what I learned along the way. My hope is that others can benefit from understanding my experience, and the discoveries I’ve made over the past year. 

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The Buzz: My Child is Twice As Likely to Die During Childbirth

As my husband and I both go through our fertility journey, I have had a more heightened awareness of the inequities that exist with childbirth and Black women. A recent study found that Black infants are 2.3 times more likely to die in childbirth than white infants. I wasn’t fully aware that the health inequities also extend to the infant. Just imagine the range of feelings experienced by Black women wanting to start a family within a system that is already rigged against us.

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Beyond the Rhetoric—Centering Justice and Anti-Racism in our DEI Strategy: Validating Emotion, Defining Allyship, and Leveraging Change Management

Are you providing a vehicle for employees to share their experiences, emotions, and reality concerning the racial justice movement?  Do you have a transparent and straightforward approach to communicate and deliver on your intent to address and eradicate systemic racism? Do you have a simple and clear definition and expectation regarding allyship? How will allyship be incorporated into your behaviors and systems? 

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Beyond the Rhetoric—Centering Justice & Anti-Racism in our DEI Strategy: Moving Beyond Analyzing to Interrogating Your Data

Analyzing data and interrogating data are not the same thing. We currently analyze diversity data, but we less often interrogate it with a justice lens. Analysis can uncover some of these inequities, but interrogation reveals the systems that perpetuate them. This week I will explore how to interrogate internal data such as applicant flow, hiring, termination (both voluntary and involuntary), promotion, and performance appraisals.   

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Managing the Toll of DEI Work: The Physiology of Inclusion™

We are living in a time of significant polarization, due to factors such as rapidly changing demographics and immigration patterns, globalization of the marketplace, advancements in technology, and deviations from traditional societal norms of the past. The Physiology of Inclusion™ (POI) is a whole-body system to improve the physical, mental, and emotional health of DEI practitioners and leaders in order to enable them to lead inclusively. 

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Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change

Racial Justice at Work book cover

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)

Cover of the book We Can't Talk about That at Work (Second Edition) by Mary-Frances Winters and Mareisha N Reese

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