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Allyship in Action episodes
- 179: Understanding Privilege with Julie Kratz
Privilege is a chance to be an ally for someone different from you. This season the Diversity Pivot Podcast is focused on real-life application of allyship in the workplace. Join Julie as she unpacks a key strategy from her new book Allyship in Action: 10 Practices to Live Inclusively.
Connect with Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com.
11 min - 178: Accountability with Julie Kratz
Accountability is one of the top trends for allyship to work at home and at work. This season the Diversity Pivot Podcast is focused on real-life application of allyship in the workplace. Join Julie as she unpacks a key strategy from her new book Allyship in Action: 10 Practices to Live Inclusively.
Connect with Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com.
12 min - 177: Coaching with Julie Kratz
Coaching is an ally saving grace. This season the Diversity Pivot Podcast is focused on real-life application of allyship in the workplace. Join Julie as she unpacks a key strategy from her new book Allyship in Action: 10 Practices to Live Inclusively.
Connect with Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com.
10 min - 176: Practicing Courage with Julie Kratz
Courage is a key ingredient in the allyship toolkit for diversity and inclusion to work. This season the Diversity Pivot Podcast is focused on real-life application of allyship in the workplace. Join Julie as she unpacks a key strategy from her new book Allyship in Action: 10 Practices to Live Inclusively.
Connect with Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com.
10 min - BONUS: Laurie Weingart - The No Club
Laurie is a a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory and director of the Collaboration and Conflict Research Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Ten years ago, her friend and economist Linda Babcock sent out a plea to her female colleagues – like herself, they were crushed by taking on too many tasks, and saw how they were trailing behind their male counterparts. They met at a restaurant to share stories and vowed to say no to requests that pulled them away from the work that mattered most. This was the beginning of The No Club.
Laurie shares personal stories and new research on:
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Why unrewarded work more often falls to women
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How "organizational currency" creates NPTs at companies
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How organizations must change to distribute and reward work fairly
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How culture and management contribute to NPTs, with actionable ways to correct the imbalance
Connect with Laurie and team at https://www.thenoclub.com/.
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- 175: Emotions as an Ally with Julie Kratz
Emotions are vital on the journey to becoming an ally for diversity and inclusion. This season the Diversity Pivot Podcast is focused on real-life application of allyship in the workplace. Join Julie as she unpacks a key strategy from her new book Allyship in Action: 10 Practices to Live Inclusively.
Connect with Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com.
11 min - 174: Be Curious with Julie Kratz
Curiosity did not kill the cat. It is an integral part of the ally journey. This season the Diversity Pivot Podcast is focused on real-life application of allyship in the workplace. Join Julie as she unpacks a key strategy from her new book Allyship in Action: 10 Practices to Live Inclusively.
Connect with Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com.
10 min - 173: Vulnerability as an Ally with Julie Kratz
Vulnerability is the achilles hill of an ally. We have to do allyship afraid often. This season the Diversity Pivot Podcast is focused on real-life application of allyship in the workplace. Join Julie as she unpacks a key strategy from her new book Allyship in Action: 10 Practices to Live Inclusively.
Connect with Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com.
11 min - 172: Channeling Empathy with Julie Kratz
Empathy is an intentional practice of allies. It is impossible to wear someone else's shoes. Instead, channel empathy and seek to understand the other perspective. This season the Diversity Pivot Podcast is focused on real-life application of allyship in the workplace. Join Julie as she unpacks a key strategy from her new book Allyship in Action: 10 Practices to Live Inclusively.
Connect with Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com.
11 min - 171: Your Ally Why with Julie Kratz
There is no one size fits all approach to DEI. This season the Diversity Pivot Podcast is focused on real-life application of allyship in the workplace. Julie shares a minisode about her new book Allyship in Action: 10 Practices for Living Inclusively focused on chapter one - knowing your ally why.
Connect with Julie at www.nextpivotpoint.com.
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About Allyship in Action
From the publisher's feed
I left Corporate America because the workplace culture sucked.
That realization was my personal pivot point, and it's the entire driving force behind my podcast, Allyship in Action.
Inclusive workplace culture doesn't happen by accident. It is built through intentional, consistent choices. In every episode of Allyship in Action, my goal is simple. My goal is to cut through the noise, skip the performative shiny stuff, and deliver real, practical tools that turn good intentions into sustainable workplace culture change.
Here is the core summary of what Allyship in Action is all about, and how all leaders can be better allies.
From Performative Statements to Everyday Practice
We've all seen standard corporate declarations like posting a statement on social media or making a grand pledge. While public support isn't inherently bad, true allyship begins when the cameras are off. Allyship isn't a badge you wear or a title you give yourself. Allyship is a verb. It requires continuous learning, unlearning, and showing up even when things get messy or uncomfortable.
In our conversations with workplace culture experts, we repeatedly unpack how real allies move from passive empathy to proactive intervention. That means noticing who gets interrupted in meetings, recognizing whose ideas are credited, and ensuring that opportunities are distributed equitably across the entire team.
Rewiring Workplace Culture for True Inclusion
A healthy workplace culture isn't created by ping-pong tables or free snacks. Inclusive workplace cultures are built on psychological safety, fairness, and trust. For genuine inclusion to take root, organizations must audit the subtle systems that drive daily behavior. How are your meetings structured? How are performance reviews conducted? Who holds the informal power, and how is feedback delivered?
On the podcast, we showcase practical tactics—like rotating an Inclusion Booster role during weekly staff meetings to monitor airtime and ensure introverted or underrepresented voices are heard. When you design everyday workflows with inclusion in mind, you stop relying on heroic individual acts and start embedding equity into the DNA of your organization.
Protecting the Pipeline and How Inclusion Drives Talent Retention
There is both a deep human case and a rock-solid business case for DEI. In today's shifting marketplace, talent retention is one of the single biggest operational challenges leaders face. High performers, especially women, racially diverse team members, neurodivergent colleagues, and Gen Z workers, simply will not stay where they have to mask their true selves or fight uphill against systemic microaggressions.
When employees feel seen, heard, and valued for their unique lived experiences, engagement skyrockets, innovation thrives, and turnover drops. Protecting your talent pipeline isn't about complex retention gimmicks; it's about fostering an environment where people know, without a shadow of a doubt, that they belong.
Engaging People with Power
One of our biggest research insights is that inclusion work stalls when it remains isolated in ERGs or HR departments. Without people in positions of power actively engaged as allies, systemic progress hits a ceiling. Powerful leaders often stay on the sidelines out of a fear of making a mistake or saying the wrong thing.
Allyship in Action serves as a compassionate, pushback-proof invitation for leaders to step up. Allyship isn't about having all the answers or acting like a superhero. It's about having the humility to say, "I don't know, but I'm here to listen, learn, and leverage my influence to help."
Allyship is a Continuous Journey
Allyship is progress over perfection. It's a practice. We are all works in progress. If we want better workplaces, we have to stay curious, challenge our own blind spots, and commit to taking small, consistent micro-actions every single day.
When we do allyship well, we don't just change our teams, we also redefine what it means to lead for all.