This week I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Eliza Blanchard, the Learning and Development content manager for the Association of Talent Development (ATD). I was asked to be the inaugural guest for their new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) podcast, a monthly program designed to feature conversations with various DEI experts to advance […]
From Diversity to Inclusion: Three Strategies to Become an Employer of Choice
I recently saw the movie Black Panther along with millions of other people, and I came to the conclusion that many of them did: Women, and in this case, black women, are strong, wise and not to be messed with. So why does it seem like Corporate America is missing the memo?
Three Ways to Succeed in Hiring a More Diverse Workforce
Misguided and culturally insensitive blunders such as the racially insensitive Pepsi commercial with Kendall Jenner, Google’s disgruntled engineer intensifying male tech industry bias, the egregious casting decision in the movie Ghost in the Shell with whites playing Asians, and the complexity of L’Oréal firing a transgender black woman after her comments about race—all of these highlight the need for companies to incorporate diversity into their […]
Hiring for Skills? A Novel Concept Indeed.
Microsoft announced they are working to accelerate a “skills-based labor market” and immediately I wondered what companies have been hiring for previously, if not for skills. I’m sure those of you who have applied for a job again and again, only to be rejected or ignored, have wondered the same thing. The New York Times reporting of the […]