Dear Corner Office’s Podcast

Dear Corner Office’s Podcast

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Dear Corner Office’s Podcast episodes

  • Episode 16: Let The Data Lead You: Demographics Don't Lie

    COVID19 has completely changed workplace culture.

    How can companies data to support their teams in this new era?

    Listen to Deldep's interview about #DiversityandInclusion and DATA on the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Virtual Summit.

    Deldelp Medina is well known in these tech streets! Born and raised in the Bay area it would make sense for her to be in tech.

    She shares her first time being introduced to a computer and how it changed her life.

    Deldelp Medina is the Director of Research and Data for Black and Brown Founders. She has 20+ years of expertise in management consulting, technology and coaching with her firm Medina and Associates.

    41 min
  • Episode 14: Why Your Company's C-Suite Isn't Fighting Racism

    An organization may say, we stand with black lives, Black Lives Matter, yet, there is a black person, in the organization saying I feel like they don't care about my life though. 

    What is up with that disconnect? What's going on?

     

    Here are the hot top 5 reasons why organizations are openly anti-racist in their external communications. 

    31 min
  • Episode 13: Dream Beyond Yourself

    Shain Khoja shares her journey from leaving her home in Africa as a child to moving to the UK. At 5 years of age she was helping her father in her story while missing fun kid activities. 

     

    Learn how that experience molded her to be a 4-time entrepreneur including her new tech startup. Thrive Community Inc. Thrive is an eldercare app focused on helping caregivers who are stressed especially now during covid. 

    27 min
  • Episode 11: Why Ben & Jerry's Statement on Systemic Racism MATTERS
    We need to build our organizations assuming that everyone's racist and build it so that we mitigate it and minimize it. What is the type of policies and procedures and structures that we can put into our organizations that end violence? I'm using the word violence more broadly thinking about the workplace, but it still hurts, it still hurts us in so many different ways.



    That's why all of us need to be fighting to make our workplaces and to make our society at large, more racially just because we're all going to benefit from it.

     


    Download the "What Is An A.L.L.Y?" Guide here: http://positivehire.co/ally/

    47 min
  • Episode 09: Student Mental Health During COVID-19
    Mental health is critical right now especially for children. While parents are worrying so are their children. But what can parents do to help their children during these uncertain times?

    Christina Broderick is clinically trained Licensed Social Worker, a Psychotherapist and a Certified School Social Worker. She’s worked in K-12 educational settings for nearly a decade. She is also the founder of  IgnitEDU.  It helps every student to learn, build and strengthen their mental health foundation within their education journey.


    When Christina started working with students, she realized there’s a consistent gap that existed related to mental health. Christina established IgniteEdu which she’s the founder that helps every student to learn, build, and strengthen their Mental Health Foundation within their education journey.

    33 min
  • Episode 08: WTF Did You Say To Me?

    Are you wondering how to stop harassment? In this episode, I talk with Krystal Atha, Entrepreneur and Founder of Sembramos, who provides education and community to conscious leaders aiming to improve their capacity to cultivate organizations that are safe, inclusive and other microagressions, then you're in luck!

    25 min
  • Episode 07: Getting Seen & Heard As A Woman of Color
    *This was an interview to introduce one of our speakers for the Women of Color in STEM summit in Feb 2020*

    Are you wondering how to stop harassment?


    If you’ve been struggling with not knowing how to interrupt everyday sexism, racism, and other microaggressions, then you’re in luck!


    In this episode, I talk with Krystal Atha, entrepreneur and founder of Sembramos, who provide education & community to conscious leaders aiming to improve their capacity to cultivate organizations that are safe, inclusive, and equitable.


    Her 'why' starting in social justice and liberation ethics, and experience with intercultrual dynamics and international administration Then went into the Peace Corps, then journalism, starting her own nonprofit and working in tech and user experience Realized that she was trying to create safer spaces and the world a better place, but blindspot was doing the work "at home" Realized that her own organization was missing DE&I and had a lot of her own internal work to do before helping others Why it's important to develop strategies and safer spaces by not judging yourself or talking yourself out when facing microaggressions


    Watch her summit talk at: https://summit20.womenofcolorinstem.com/speakers/krystal-atha/


    Connect with her at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sembramos/

    24 min

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Management and human resources professionals often wonder why diverse employees leave or what their workplace experiences are like. Dear Corner Office provides real-life experiences of women of color…