“Good news, you’re going to mess up. Better news, you can come back and try again.”

Vice President of Capacity Building Tyrai Bronson-Pruitt joins Trina to talk about micro + macro goals when it comes to identity + leadership development. Plus, they share the news that Team Dynamics has a new mini-series starting in July!

For more info on the mini-series, head to:

http://bit.ly/TeamDynamicsMN2021MiniSeries

“We know that a very real and persistent anti-blackness exists within the US as a construct.”

Alfonso + Trina welcome Senior Strategist Pearl Dobbins to the podcast. Pearl shares her experience + learnings on colorism in the United States + its colonies. Trina talks about the way a preference for whiteness encourages a preference for lightness + how that shows up in media. 

In this episode, Pearl references Resmaa Menakem + Dr. Yaba Blay as well as many other writers + activists. 

“Folks conflate being nice with being inclusive.”

Alfonso + Trina dig into the ways Christian dominant culture shows up in workplaces that may or may not be in our awareness when we are part of that culture. They share some questions to ask + some things they are trying in running their own company.

“Is employee satisfaction with DEI or anti-racist initiatives a good indicator that we’re on the right track?”

Alfonso + Trina share their current thinking on what it means to measure progress inside an organization when it comes to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work. 

“Any kind of body can perform masculinity.”

Trina + Alfonso dig into the ways that current US workplaces demonstrate a preference for behaviors associated with masculinity. Alfonso asks Trina to unpack her experiences with performing masculinity in a female-body, and Trina walks Alfonso through a game to identify how to understand the ways masculinity + femininity are expected + received. 

“The preservation of white people’s comfort is not a good goal.”

Alfonso + Trina have almost completed co-writing their book, 'Hiring Revolution: A Guide to Disrupting Sexism + Racism,' & take this episode to share what it's been like writing something together amidst a global pandemic, racial uprising, + the many other dynamic changes happening in the past year. 

“The idea that time is neutral is only true if we don’t get really judgey and hierarchical about how other people relate to time.”

Trina + Alfonso dig into concepts of and relationships to time. They talk about ways folks are taught about time and how identity plays a role in how folks are viewed around time. And Trina shares her clarity around the difference between being timely + being timeful. 

Alfonso + Trina talk about how they felt watching a white, militant insurrection at the United States Capitol. They share suggestions on how to hold space for processing national events + domestic terrorism for their workers. And they talk about the importance of telling the truth at work. 

What are we building from and what are we building towards?

Trina + Alfonso share some of where they’re building from as they walk towards a new calendar year. They dig into the idea of not just taking things apart but building upon what's come before. And Trina shares the importance of specificity while Alfonso reflects on some ways he's slowing down in his work. 

A 30-minute workshop pulled right from the content we at Team Dynamics share with our clients. Trina + Alfonso talk through the ways our identities are always impacting our workplaces.