Is Everyone in the Room?

Promoting diversity and inclusion in a workplace cannot be done fully without understanding and applying the tools of cross-cultural communication. In the fifth episode of Is Everybody In The Room?, we explore the topic of Cross Cultural Communication. Your team-mates from different cultures or diverse backgrounds might have different verbal and non-verbal ways of communicating. Active listening, understanding non-verbal communication, and doing the work to learn about the ways people from different cultures communicate and their lived experiences forms the basis for discussion between our three panelists Chisom Udeze, Kevin Reeder, and William Kweku Paintsil, moderated by Hyacinth Walters-Olsen. They also dig deeper into the challenges of cross-cultural communication and provide you with the skills to ensure that miscommunication no longer goes unaddressed.

The podcast is produced in collaboration with HerSpace.

In our next episode, we discuss how gender is incorporated into diversity metrics. It is important to acknowledge that gender diversity is more than just men and women. There is much work to be done around the world to include the LGBTQIA+ community, minority groups and people of colour.

In this podcast, we will look at both equality and equity. We will look at how a history of gender discrimination requires attention and a conscious allocation of resources so that our gender diverse community is truly included within our workplaces. This podcast is produced in collaboration with HerSpace .

The discussion was moderated by Hyacinth Walters-Olsen and our panelists were  Chisome Udeze, Jacob Thomas, and Astrid Sundberg.

The topic of this episode is Deconstructing Unconscious Bias.

We all have unconscious biases in one way or another, but the more we are aware of them, the better we can mitigate them. Unconscious biases can influence hiring practices, promotions, and treatment within the workplace. To facilitate a diverse and inclusive workplace, unconscious biases must be acknowledged, challenged, and deconstructed. Through this process,  we can make more informed decisions in the workplace.

The episode is moderated by  Hyacinth Walters-Olsen, who is joined by  panelists ChisomUdeze, Roy Arne Hanssen, Erik Falk Hansen.  This episode is co-produced by HerSpace.

In the episode, we are discussing anti-racism and intersectionality.  This podcast episode initiative is powered by HerSpace.

In this episode, we discuss anti-racism and intersectionality. Identifying and confronting racism by altering systems, organizational structures, policies, and attitudes in order to allocate power more fairly, is the goal of anti-racism. Since our identities are interconnected, intersectionality encourages us to think about how different components of our identity interact with one another and require equitable action.

These three panelists— Chisom Udeze, Sarah Przedpelska, and Sergio Prin-Sand —are joined by Hyacinth Walters-Olsen to discuss anti-racism and intersectionality at the workspace.

In this episode we will be deep diving into the concept of equality and equity. This podcast is produced in collaboration with HerSpace. We hope you enjoy it! 

Most of us use them interchangeably, but they are far apart. Equality ensures that everyone has the same resources, whereas equity mandates that resources are distributed based on the needs of the recipients. This enriching podcast is moderated by  Hyacinth Walters-Olsen with three panelists Chisome Udeze, Ezekiel Ward, Astrid Sundberg to manifestant Equality and Equity in the workplace and its impact on gender, minority groups, and company policies and processes.

Since 2020, Diversify has been broadening its contribution in terms of Diversity and inclusion, by holding monthly panel discussions on Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace in collaboration with HerSpace. These sessions take on various aspects of Diversity and inclusion relating to the workplace and our society at large. Now these discussions are available on a very informative podcast series.

The first episode of the series explores the terms diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, and further the importance of implementing actionable structures as important steps to contributing to the success and strength of an organization.

This is the first episode in a podcast series by Diversify to center Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace initiative is powered by HerSpace .

Moderator: Hyacinth Walters
Panelists: Chisome Udeze, Alison Uttley, Faya Mayrhoo

We are happy to partner with Business for Peace to address this important and timely topic.