Michelle Gyimah is the Director of Equality Pays, a gender and ethnicity equality consultancy dedicated to closing workplace pay gaps. She shares:

• Why all industries have pay gaps
• How to collect career experience stories to help address equity gaps
• Strategies to improve your pay gap that address real root causes

Connect with Michelle at https://www.equalitypays.co/ and her podcast https://bettermoneyconversations.libsyn.com/. Connect with Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com.

Lisa Hickey is CEO of Good Men Media, Inc. and Publisher of The Good Men Project, an online multi-media, cross-platform content site and conversation discussing the changing roles of men in the 21st century. Founded in 2010, The Good Men Project averages 2 million unique visitors a month. Lisa shares with us:

• How she started a successful DEI publication platform
• What topics are resonating with folks on DEI
• Why being open to feedback is important in publishing DEI content

Follow Lisa at https://goodmenproject.com/ and Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com .

Erayna Sargent (AKA the Burnout Whisperer), is a speaker, mental wellness champion, and burnout relief expert. As founder and Chief Anti-Burnout Champion at Hooky Wellness®, she merged employee-centric design with mental wellness modalities to develop their burnout relief experience, Navigating Burnout™.  We discuss:

• How to disrupt the hustle culture
• Why DEI leaders experience higher rates of burnout
• How to recognize and manage where you are at on the burnout cycle

Meet Erayna at https://www.hookywellness.com/ and Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com

Genevieve Leveille is the CEO and Principal Founder of AgriLedger. Her work supports diversity in the realms of digital identity and economic transformation. Together, we cover the following:

• How to use storytelling to include marginalized groups in spaces where they are not represented
• Why trust is the most significant barrier to inclusive financial, health care, and technology systems
• How to overcome the challenges of training folks for the next industrial revolution and potential economic downturn

You can connect with Genevieve on Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgleveille/ and Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com 

Susan MacKenty Brady is the Chief Executive Officer of The Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership, and co-author of Arrive & Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership.

She shares:

• Why women decline in leadership roles after 2 promotions
• What systems need to be redesigned to include women
• Why DEI is a learning conversation, not right or wrong or good or bad

Connect with Susan at https://www.inclusiveleadership.com/ and Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com

This week we're talking about the performance review process and how it traditionally has been riddled with bias. From assessing folks based on potential vs. actual performance to biased language in annual review write-ups, women, people of color and other underrepresented folks often have fewer chances to succeed because of systemic bias.

Read the full article here: https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/how-to-stop-bias-from-infiltrating-your-performance-reviews/435611

The workplace was designed for men, and the last several years have only reinforced that notion. On this week's mini-sode we're discussing why women are leaving corporate America and opting to be their own boss — and why it's important for allies to educate themselves on the reasons why.

Read the full article here: https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/women-are-leaving-corporate-america-fast-heres-why/434631

Marginalized groups are being overtasked with leading diversity work, which is driving them away from their jobs — and the No. 1 reason for leaving is burnout. This week's mini-sode is addressing how it's time to engage more allies for positive change.

Read the full article here: https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/why-we-need-to-stop-expecting-marginalized-people-to-lead/433889

On this week's mini-sode, we're discussing inclusive language.

Words that used to be very commonplace are now recognized as exclusionary and have been replaced with more inclusive language. Here's why using that's essential to understand for your business.

View the full article here: https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/why-businesses-need-to-take-inclusive-language-seriously/432876

Julie is back with another mini-sode focused on hot topics in the DEI space - best practices for DEI in the workplace.

Organizations are wrestling with what to say or do right now given the current political climate. It's tempting to say you don't want to talk about politics at work. Many are defaulting to not saying anything dismissing employees' questions as personal issues that don't belong in the workplace, while many employees are looking to their organizations for answers. They want to know their stance on the human issues that affect their well-being and values.

Read the full article here: https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/what-industry-leaders-are-doing-to-support-diversity/430655