Speaking up is critical, but also complex in today’s world, and as a leader you set the tone for your team.

In this session — a replay from the 2021 Pennsylvania Conference for Women — diversity and inclusion pragmatist Dolly Chugh will offer ways to communicate so that you can reduce the likelihood of misunderstanding, be a better colleague, and create a workplace where everyone has the confidence to speak up and the language to effectively advance equity in the workplace.

Learn how to avoid being a well-intentioned barrier to equality and speak up with confidence.

 

Dolly Chugh

Dolly Chugh is an award-winning professor at the New York University Stern School of Business where she teaches MBA courses in leadership and management. Her research focuses on “bounded ethicality,” which she describes as the “psychology of good people.” Her first book, The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias, has received rave praise from Adam Grant, Angela Lee Duckworth, Liz Wiseman, Billie Jean King, and many others. It has been covered on the TODAY Show, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the 10% Happier Podcast, NPR, and other media outlets. Chugh’s TED Talk was named one of the 25 Most Popular TED Talks of 2018, and currently has over 4.5 million views. Recently, she launched a free, monthly newsletter called Dear Good People which offers bite-sized, evidence-based tips on how to be the inclusive person you mean to be. Prior to becoming an academic, Chugh worked at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Sibson and Company, Scholastic, and Time Inc. She attended Cornell University, where she majored in psychology and economics for her undergraduate degree and Harvard University for her MBA and PhD. @dollychugh

 

 

Celeste Headlee

Celeste Headlee is a communication and human nature expert, and an award-winning journalist. She is a professional speaker, and also the author of Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism—and How to Do It, Do Nothing, Heard Mentality, and We Need to Talk. In her twenty-year career in public radio, she has been the executive producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Radio, and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She also served as cohost of the national morning news show The Takeaway from PRI and WNYC, and anchored presidential coverage in 2012 for PBS World Channel. Headlee’s TEDx talk sharing ten ways to have a better conversation has over twenty million total views to date. @CelesteHeadlee

 

 

Additional Resources:

* Learn more about Dolly Chugh and sign up for her newsletter, Dear Good People, at DollyChugh.com

* Follow @dollychugh on Twitter

* Get free shipping on books by our guests — including Chugh’s The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias and upcoming A More Just Future — when you shop our podcast page at independent partner bookstore BookPeople

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