Luiza Dreasher is the president and CEO of mastering cultural differences based in Minnesota. She has over 20 years of experience in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, and cultural competence. She explains how companies benefit when they have diverse and inclusive workforces. Organizations can create a welcoming environment in a diverse society where groups may have hostility toward one another. 

Highlights:

{03:01} The benefits of diverse and inclusive workforces

{06:22} General principles to adopt to achieve diversity goals.

{13:57} DEI in countries with tribal loyalties

{17:40} The Brazilian cultural roadblocks to communication with Americans

{28:10} The Global Academy

Rachel Carruthers bio:

Luiza has over 20 years of experience in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, and cultural competence development. Her expertise in global and domestic diversity has led to consulting jobs and training to numerous audiences, including the United States Department of Defense, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Schreiber Foods of Brazil, GTI Energy, Navitaire, MN Department of Public Safety, and numerous institutions of higher education. 

Luiza has taught courses focusing on Social Justice, Cross-Cultural Race Relations, and Diversity Management. While serving as an Assistant Dean and Director of Multicultural and International Inclusion at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, she developed and taught a course on Cultural Competence for the Legal Profession.

As a contributing writer for The Inclusion Solution, a newsletter distributed by The Winters Group, Luiza focuses on transformative solutions for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. With a readership of over 195 thousand, Luiza has written about strategies for recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce, the detrimental impact of microaggressions, achieving inclusive religious observance, age discrimination, how organizations can play a critical role in addressing racial inequities, and how biases and lack of cultural competence keep diversity out.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luiza-dreasher-phd

The Global Academy: https://www.masteringculturaldifferences.com/the-global-academy 

Mastering Cultural differences: https://www.masteringculturaldifferences.com 

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