Posts Tagged ‘diversity’
Is Your Company Really Committed to Advancing Women? Prove It!
The Key to Inclusion — Full Transparency I was honored to celebrate International Women’s Day with Deloitte US by participating in a panel discussion on the release of the inaugural Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Transparency Report. The report goes well beyond women and examines all dimensions of diversity through a lens of intersectionality. This is groundbreaking work…
Read MoreHow Diversity Directly Impacts A Company’s Bottom Line
Jilea Hemmings CEO & Co-Founder of Best Tyme wrote series on how diversity can increase a company’s bottom line. Jeffery Tobias Halter was interviewed as part of this series. He shared his backstory, new projects and how diversity impacts a company’s top and bottom line. Here’s a snippet from the interview: Hemmings: Can you share the top five…
Read MoreFlash Point: The Effect Of The #MeToo Momentum
The three things best-in-class companies are doing to advance women and what that means in the fight against sexual harassment. Earlier this year, I wrote about Women at the Tipping Point. More than 500,000 women had just marched on Washington, demanding that their voices be heard. Over the past year, I have spoken at or attended more…
Read MoreLeaving a Legacy for Our Daughters
When Holly Dowling invited me to be a guest on her Celebration of You blog/podcast, I knew that we would have plenty of topics to discuss and that we’d create future opportunities to collaborate. Our first podcast centers around gender equality, male allies, fathers of daughters and what a gender strategist does. Here’s the teaser from her…
Read MoreWhy Your Unconscious Bias Training Isn’t Working
Why Unconscious Gender Bias Training is Essential Will your company be the next Google or Uber? What are you doing to drive real change and an understanding of diversity and inclusion deep into middle management and throughout your organization? It is truly a tale of two strategies, the companies that are doing it well and the companies that are…
Read MoreWhat Can Your Company Learn from the Google Diversity Debacle
Why your diversity and unconscious bias training is failing. Google made headlines over the weekend when a 10-page manifesto released by a white male engineer about his beliefs on meritocracy and the shortcomings of Google’s diversity and unconscious bias training efforts went viral. His essay suggests that the company encourage ideological rather than gender diversity and argues that…
Read MoreStarting Gender Conversations in the Workplace
We’re at a tipping point. Early in your career, you are taught never to discuss religion, sex or politics in the workplace – ever! Today, things are shifting and your political affiliation, gender, and women’s issues are being talked about on a daily basis. Conversations are taking place from Washington D.C. to Silicon Valley and…
Read MoreThree Things Best-In-Class Companies Are Doing To Advance Women
During the past month, I have been fortunate to attend a number of events focused on breakthrough initiatives companies are implementing to advance women. The first was the 2017 Colloquium on Global Diversity with 50 major multinational companies, the second was the 2017 Catalyst Awards Conference and Dinner where 3M and Rockwell Automation were honored…
Read MoreThe BOSS Magazine: Has the Need for Workplace Gender Diversity Reached Its Tipping Point?
Laura Close, Managing Editor @BOSSNewsNetwork interviewed me about gender diversity in the workplace, the war for talent, changing demographics of the American workforce and the need to have meaningful conversations in the workplace to address these issues for the March issue of the magazine. We had a wide-ranging discussion to read the full interview click here.
Read MoreWomen Can Achieve Their Career Goals by Educating Men
Jeffery Tobias Halter is a white man who says he can teach women how to teach men about gender equality in the workplace. I know, I’m also skeptical about a man standing up for women. Isn’t that just another way to reinforce the norm of male leadership? But I’m also a pragmatist. So if he’s advancing…
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