LaKisha Brooks, Chief Learning Officer at Brooks Enterprise and Consultants, explains how talent development professionals can create culturally competent training environments and build cultural competence into all aspects of their work.

LaKisha Brooks

Brooks Enterprise and Consultants 

Allison Manswell, Chief Results Officer at Path Forward Consulting, discusses the changes she's seeing in how companies address DEI, and why she is cautiously optimistic that the current focus on racial justice may lead to real progress.

Path Forward Consulting

Listen In: Crucial Conversations on Race in the Workplace by Allison Manswell 

Path Forward Consulting: The Trusted Partner for Sustained Growth

Noni Allwood, founder and principle at Noni Allwood & Associates, talks about the importance of establishing partnerships with business leaders to advance DEI, and offers suggestions for how talent development professionals can embed principles of DEI into leadership development programs.  

Noni Allwood 

Coqual

Maria Morukian, president of MSM Global Consulting, offers advice for talent development professionals who are preparing to facilitate dialogues around diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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MSM Global Consulting

Culture Stew podcast

Stacey Gordon, a diversity, inclusion, and career strategist and founder of the organization Rework Work, shares her suggestions for minimizing the impact of unconscious bias in hiring - and how talent development professionals can partner with recruiters and hiring managers to do so.

ATD Virtual Conference

Rework Work

Stacey's unconscious bias virtual course

Stacey's DE&I workplace assessment