The "DEI is:" Podcast

Alysha M. Campbell is a multiple award-winning, best-selling author and a highly respected Strategic HR Leader with a decade of experience that encompasses all facets of Human Resource Management. From executing successful multi-million dollar workforce recruitment and optimization projects to spearheading employee culture initiatives, Alysha has truly seen and done it all in the HR space.

Why is it so important for us to really think through our connections to the communities as we scale our businesses? Part of the answer is that cultures emerge from communities—not the other way around! Stay tuned to tap into Alysha M. Campbell’s wealth of insight, depth of experience, and hard-earned know-how!

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Erin-Kate Escobar (Erin-Kate Escobar Consulting) has a Vision where People are able to navigate and challenge oppression as whole humans. They work to accomplish that through their Mission: To build more inclusive workplaces where people can thrive through developing and implementing DEI strategies that include healing, and anti-racist practices. Erin-Kate has previously developed DEI initiatives in STEM communities, including Caltech, NASA, and Nobel Prize-winning LIGO scientific collaborations. These days, you can more often find them partnering with small businesses, museums, schools, and nonprofits to create more diverse and equitable team environments. Erin-Kate navigates the world as a non-binary, queer, Latinx(e), white, multi-ethnic, and non-Zionist Jewish person of color and is passionate about supporting personal growth and institutional social change towards greater equity. You can go to their website to be the first to know about their toolkit to build transformative Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) in the workplace: 

www.erinkateescobar.com/ergtoolkit

What tools do ERGs need to become not only functional, but TRANSFORMATIVE? Tune in to find out more about the transformative potential of ERGs AND what we can do to set up our existing ERGs for success.

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Dr. Katherine Giscombe, Founder of Giscombe and Associates, whose current consulting work involves an examination of equity, equality, fairness, and what organizations can do to enhance workplace inclusivity through a greater understanding and application of these concepts, also led the groundbreaking study on Women of Color in Corporate Management—a topic as deeply relevant today as it was then—joined the “DEI is:” Podcast to discuss the impact of organizations taking meaningful action for Women of Color not only in the immediate present, but also for the future.

Tune in to explore not only what organizations today are doing for Women of Color in corporate management, but for Women of Color at all levels in organizations in terms of reproductive health and beyond.

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Kristina Smith, President & Executive Culture Leader of D&I Strategists, has worked with government agencies, for-profit, and non-profit organizations ranging in scale from the local to the national. Her forte is coaching leaders, helping teams work better together, and facilitating conversations about race/diversity. In 2019, Kristina was certified in Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ)—the neuroscience of conversations. While her undergraduate work at Emerson College was in the field of Communication Disorders, the bulk of her career was influenced by her graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University where she studied Organization Development with an emphasis on How to Manage Change in Organizations.

Kristina joined the “DEI is:” Podcast to help us to understand why diversity training fails in 2022 AND what we can do to position our professional DEI practices as well as our clients for success. Where do we begin? Tune in to find out!

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Valerie Williams is a diversity champion and community builder with over 16 years of experience advocating for fairness and equity in the workplace. Prior to launching Converge, Valerie served as Global Head of Inclusion & Diversity at Stripe, and helped create the foundational Diversity and Belonging program at Airbnb. Valerie has extensive executive, business and technical recruiting experience at Google, Airbnb, and Russell Reynolds, as well as four years of supply chain and operations experience at Hewlett Packard.

Valerie joined The DEI is: Podcast to explore how we can harness “hockey stick moments'' for real growth—the “hockey stick moments'' in question being 1) an inciting incident followed by 2) a sharp uptick in interest around DEI followed by . . . well, not too much of anything! So, how do we move from commitment to DEI work to making real strides in those efforts? Tune in to find out!

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In this first episode, we’ll be talking through “how to move DEI efforts beyond checkbox exercises” and more specifically, about accountability. Why? Well, when it comes to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, there is of course “intent vs. impact” but there is SO much more, including discussions we can be having amongst ourselves as DEI professionals, and discussions we can be having with our clients. Stay tuned!

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