Dear Corner Office

Abolionist or Ally - Which Are You? with Krystal Atha

How Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders Can Be Better Allies To Black Co-workers 

with

Ada ChEn, CEO & Founder

Chuan Skincare

She is the creator of the culturally competent conversations for equity and belongingness summit and brand. She is also an award-winning diversity, equity inclusion, belongingness, and leadership strategist and one of the top 20 career coaches in the Metro Detroit area. So you are in for a fantastic time. One other thing I want to mention, or some other things, she's a spouse, a parent, to our neuro distant district, the state child, and a two-time trauma brain injury survivor, turn worrying advocate. 

Secrets to Break

the Glass Ceiling As

A Woman in Corporate

Theola is an award-winning Journalist at The Washington Post and a White House Appointed Communications Director.

She's founder and CEO of JSkills, the learning community and forthcoming tech platform for career changers. In this episode she discusses techniques for telling your story and why you should attend this year's Women of Color in STEM Virtual Summit.

Lead The Innovation Revolution

It’s Time: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, Equality and Respect - Nathaniel Alston

NAAAHR, Diversity & Inclusion. If you are looking to grow and expand your skillset your knowledge base and diversity and inclusion you want to stay tuned.

With the most recent Black Lives Matter movement, countries outside of the US are realizing the issues Black professionals and citizens are having. In this episode, Marielle Legair shares her experience with racism in the US and UK. 

Originally from the UK, Marielle made the decision to move to NYC. But her experience as a black woman in corporate spaces or America wasn't that different from the UK. Check out her experiences as a black woman in the US and UK.

Indigenous Peoples Day & Allyship

Latina Equal Pay Day

What is Executive Presence? How women of color in STEM can create their executive presence? Why does it matter especially for underrepresented women in male-dominated fields?

Learn what to do if you lead a team of all men and have a very strong personality. Find out why some women have to get to the place where we have nothing left to lose before we feel confident enough to stand up and be authentic with our voice in this episode of Dear Corner Office.

The progress of diversity and inclusion is changing but also challenging. Looking at D&I through change management methodology may help accelerate the process by analyzing systems, processes, people, and long-term investments for sustainable results.

For Tanya Gibson, positively impacting lives has been a career focus from day one.

Find out why she left education to go into human resources. Also how her current role as vice president of DEI for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America fuels her passion to impact the lives of the underserved.

Through COVID-19, learn how Big Brothers Big Sisters of America continues to serve its community of people of color and children.

Join Tanya’s session on “Building Belonging in the Nonprofit World: Engaging People of Color in the Nonprofit Workforce”

Creating & developing an inclusive workplace culture.

For many employers, they are not accustomed to having remote employees. This can lead to several issues in organizations.

Join Jessica Lambrecht and Jes Osrow, the founders of The Rise Journey. During their interview you’ll learn how to maintain an inclusive culture during COVID-19.

Jes works with growth-stage companies designing and implementing strategies to build cohesive teams while developing a sustainable organizational culture. Jessica specializes in organizational strategy for growing companies and nonprofits, focusing on workplace culture.

K.C. Atha and I discuss the impact of Black Panther with

1. colonizers

2. Black Futurism

3. Inclusion

4. Power of Black Women

5. Importance of Representation

and MORE. 

Check it out and let me know how Black Panther has impacted you, your family, and friends.

When where we’re trying to go and see what these holidays mean, it’s important to ask What’s truly the impact of all women, all colors, all genders, family structures, what impact does it have or didn’t have on their lives? Because too often they’re looking at white women.

That’s truly where you want to focus to know where the change needs to happen.

"I have to go after every opportunity that is available to me or create my opportunity because I owe it to my family, my parents, my grandparents, everything that they went through to help me get to this point."  

Is this something you're carrying too? The thing though is that we still have some baggage in terms of what is possible for us.   

Join  us in learning more and have some self care strategy tips with Dr. Lizette Ojeda, ThriveMinds.co, she's an award winning diversity psychology expert authority on career development.

The COVID-19 public health crisis has magnified the underlying need to ensure that women and people of color are paid equally for equal work and the value that they bring to the table. In this session, we will discuss the power of charging what you're worth upfront when it comes to negotiating contracts, salaries and promotions.

Social Justice and Economic Justice it’s about the money at hand or the opportunities at hand that ultimately get compromised for us along our way, and then how we get kicked out of systems to make us realize the true value of what we’ve accomplished.

A - An ally is AWARE of how society's patterns of dominance work. Allies know when they are in the dominant group in a given situation. An ally doesn't get stuck guilt, shame or blame.  

L - An ally LISTENS to understand how marginalized identities experience life without interrupting or questioning them.  

L - An ally keeps LEARNING about how group  & power dynamics affect the way people are perceived.   

Y - An ally says YES to using their power to help break down oppressive power patterns by engaging in thoughtful strategic action.

If you want to survive and thrive in the post-pandemic world then your task during this prolonged uncertainty is to embrace communication practices that support your organization and community during and after this crisis. Communication can create psychological safety and reinforce trust or it can erode it.

Keep your staff and community healthy; Relieve employee anxiety and stress; Improve wellbeing and collaboration; Provide employees with accurate information; Avoid common communication pitfalls during a crisis.

Build more inclusive cultures via impactful conversations . Conversations are needed to build a culture of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. An Inclusive company culture increases revenue by 19% and creates a more empathetic world.

Learn how leaders can live their commitment to equity and inclusion in the era of physical distancing.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major public health issue, affecting an estimated 1 in 3 women globally. Although intimate partner violence has historically been understood as an issue limited to “the home”, about 44% of professionals report being impacted by IPV in the workplace. Women of Color are among the lowest paid professionals, and experience disproportionately high rates of IPV, making them uniquely vulnerable to both IPV and employer responses to IPV.

COVID19 has completely changed workplace culture.

How can companies data to support their teams in this new era?

Listen to Deldep's interview about #DiversityandInclusion and DATA on the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Virtual Summit.

Deldelp Medina is well known in these tech streets! Born and raised in the Bay area it would make sense for her to be in tech.

She shares her first time being introduced to a computer and how it changed her life.

Deldelp Medina is the Director of Research and Data for Black and Brown Founders. She has 20+ years of expertise in management consulting, technology and coaching with her firm Medina and Associates.

Making healthcare more equitable - removing bias from AI to triage and provide a more equitable and powerful virtual assessment. Technologies are mostly built from the perspective of the programmer, the UI/UX designer, and the product manager; however, without a diverse sample population size in the data source or include in the coding language, we purposefully leave out other communities. Therefore, the accuracy and ability for the technology to perform at equitable optimal level decreases. An African American built male has different body mass composition than his Caucasian peer; however, if this is not considered then virtual assessment numbers such as our BMI is misdiagnosed.

An organization may say, we stand with black lives, Black Lives Matter, yet, there is a black person in the organization saying I feel like they don't care about my life, though. So what is up with that disconnect? What's going on?

Here are the hot top five reasons why organizations are openly being anti-racist in their external communications.

Shain Khoja share’s her journey from leaving her home in Africa as a child to moving to the UK. At 5 years of age she was helping her father in his story while missing fun kid activities.

Learn how that experience molded her to be a 4-time entrepreneur including her new tech startup, Thrive-Community Inc. Thrive is an eldercare app focused on helping caregivers who are stressed especially now during COVID-19.

Mental health is critical right now especially for children. While parents are worrying so are their children. But what can parents do to help their children during these uncertain times?

Christina Broderick is clinically trained Licensed Social Worker, a Psychotherapist and a Certified School Social Worker. She’s worked in K-12 educational settings for nearly a decade. She is also the founder of  IgnitEDU.  It helps every student to learn, build and strengthen their mental health foundation within their education journey.

When Christina started working with students, she realized there’s a consistent gap that existed related to mental health. Christina established IgniteEdu which she’s the founder that helps every student to learn, build, and strengthen their Mental Health Foundation within their education journey.

Corporate culture gatekeepers too often cause negative impacts on the careers of women of color. Today we'll discuss how to identify them, how to maneuver the workplace with them and how they can become an ally.

Professional women of color STEM too often work in environments which are not only unwelcoming but hostile. The level of disrespect from coworkers and management cause many to leave. Today's episode discusses the hostile work environment at General Motors plant in Ohio.

In this episode of Dear Corner Office learn about the unconscious biases women of color encounter in the workplace. Too often they are assumed to be the admin and not the engineer, scientist or IT professional.