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Want to learn more about the LGBTQ+ experience and allyship at Booz Allen? 

Check out:

• We Say Gay: Celebrating Pride, with Melody Stachour.
• A Discussion on Intersectionality and Allyship between host Jennie Brooks and Natasha Christensen, Lianna Newman, and Craig Wainner.
• How To Be an Activist & Work for a Corporation, with Dominique Chamely.

CONTACT: [email protected]

Podcast Host: Jennie Brooks, Executive Vice President, Navy Marine Corps Team

Writing, Editing, & Production: Enrico E. Manalo, Content Strategist

Guest Scheduling: Bridget Bunning, Executive Assistant

Want to learn more about what Booz Allen is doing to help or hire transitioning military members (and their families)? Tune in to Jennie Brooks' conversation with Tom Downs, Principal/Director of Diversity Talent Acquisition at Booz Allen to find out!

CONTACT: [email protected]

Podcast Host: Jennie Brooks, Executive Vice President, Navy Marine Corps Team

Writing, Editing, & Production: Enrico E. Manalo, Content Strategist

Guest Scheduling: Bridget Bunning, Executive Assistant

You’ve made your elections, maximized your 401k contributions, and even named a beneficiary or two. But how much do you really know about your total wellness benefits? Join host Jennie Brooks as she sits down with Booz Allen senior lead engineer, Joe Racine, to learn more about his journey as a Wellness Champion. Joe shares why he thinks it’s so important for people to learn more about the oft-overlooked aspects of our compensation packages, and how doing so can help us to have a greater impact in our own communities. Stay tuned to learn how taking an extra step or two could reframe your relationship with your company from transactional to transformational.

Episode 1 - Exploring Wellness: What Is It and Who Is It For? 

Episode 2 - Exploring Wellness: Caregiving & Its Impacts 

CONTACT: [email protected]

Podcast Host: Jennie Brooks, Executive Vice President, Navy Marine Corps Team

Writing, Editing, & Production: Enrico E. Manalo, Content Strategist

Guest Scheduling: Bridget Bunning, Executive Assistant

Caregiving is often the cornerstone of family; for many of us, our parents are our first caregivers. If we’re lucky enough to make it to an advanced age, our children might one day return that care toward the end of our lives. But what happens when a child needs care beyond the expected range? How does that impact our caregivers? Join host Jennie Brooks and Nora Huggins, a project coordinator in Booz Allen’s Civil Sector, as we explore those very questions. Stay tuned to find out how Nora tends to her own wellness, and why it’s so important for caregivers everywhere to understand that they are not alone.

Episode 1 - Exploring Wellness: What Is It & Who Is It For?

Episode 3 - Exploring Wellness: Building Community & Resilience

CONTACT: [email protected]

Podcast Host: Jennie Brooks, Executive Vice President, Navy Marine Corps Team

Writing, Editing, & Production: Enrico E. Manalo, Content Strategist

Guest Scheduling: Bridget Bunning, Executive Assistant

Jewish Holiday Salutations (source: Wikipedia):

Chag sameach - "happy holiday"

Gut yontiv - Good Yom Tov (Jewish holidays)

Shana tova/L'shanah tovah -  [To a] good year

Tzom kal - Easy fast (during Yom Kippur)

Deepen Your Cultural Humility Practice:

• Cultural Humility: Learning about Eid al-Adha 

CONTACT: [email protected]

Podcast Host: Jennie Brooks, Executive Vice President, Navy Marine Corps Team

Writing, Editing, & Production: Enrico E. Manalo, Content Strategist

Guest Scheduling: Bridget Bunning, Executive Assistant

Wellness means something different to everyone, but one thing many agree on is that it’s more than the physical; it’s being in good shape emotionally, financially, professionally, spiritually, or any of the other dimensions that make up the human condition. Host Jennie Brooks sits down with Will Healy, a senior VP in Booz Allen’s Chief Technology Office and executive sponsor of the Firm’s Disabilities & Neurodiversity Employee Community to talk about how we can find models of wellness that work, but don’t feel like a second job. Tune in to find out how you can approach wellness in ways that work for you.

Episode 2 - Exploring Wellness: Caregiving and Its Impacts

Episode 3 - Exploring Wellness: Building Community & Resilience

CONTACT: [email protected]

Podcast Host: Jennie Brooks, Executive Vice President, Navy Marine Corps Team

Writing, Editing, & Production: Enrico E. Manalo, Content Strategist

Guest Scheduling: Bridget Bunning, Executive Assistant

“Go to school, get a degree, get a good job,” is the path that so many of us were placed on and yet, in 2024, 50% of the workforce face barriers to those jobs because they don’t have a degree. That’s not to say that these are “unskilled” workers, in fact, most often this population are skilled through alternative routes, which is why TearThePaperCeiling.org refers to them as “STARs”. Join host Jennie Brooks in conversation with Katie Hermosilla, a Senior Vice President in Booz Allen’s Civil Sector as they shine a light on how apprenticeships have helped Booz Allen to tap into the diversity of educational backgrounds to meet our collective need for a skilled workforce that includes everyone.

Learn more about what Booz Allen is doing to develop talent in the 2023 ESG Report: https://esgreport.boozallen.com/

CONTACT: [email protected]

Podcast Host: Jennie Brooks, Executive Vice President, Navy Marine Corps Team

Writing, Editing, & Production: Enrico E. Manalo, Content Strategist

Guest Scheduling: Bridget Bunning, Executive Assistant

“Women in leadership,” “women in tech,” “Women’s History Month.” This framing positions women as outsiders, but the reality is that women have long been serving in tech and leadership, long before we had the words for it. Tune in with host Jennie Brooks as she sits down with mobility coach and Community Engagement Lead for Booz Allen’s Women’s Employee Community, Amie Price. Together, they explore what it’s been like for Amie to be an early adopter of remote work, the growth that is possible through affinity spaces, and how being “mobility curious” can be leveraged for greater flexibility, adaptability, and retention of talent, whoever they may be.

CONTACT: [email protected]

Podcast Host: Jennie Brooks, Executive Vice President, Navy Marine Corps Team

Writing, Editing, & Production: Enrico E. Manalo, Content Strategist

Guest Scheduling: Bridget Bunning, Executive Assistant

Gen Z aren’t up and coming; they’re here. Now. What do they want? Join host Jennie Brooks to find out as she talks with two of LinkedIn’s “Top Voices”—Ang Richard, Assistant Director of Career Education at Boston University, as well as JAKE Small, a workplace equity consultant, the Director of Strategic Alliances at Leadership Brainery, and a Boston ChangeMaker at MultiplyingGood. Here’s a hint: Among other things, they want to be treated as our colleagues, in the fullest sense of the word. Tune in to learn what forces have shaped Gen Z’s aspirations, perspectives, behaviors, values, and what they’re looking for in a workplace.  

CONTACT: [email protected]

Podcast Host: Jennie Brooks, Executive Vice President, Navy Marine Corps Team

Writing, Editing, & Production: Enrico E. Manalo, Content Strategist

Guest Scheduling: Bridget Bunning, Executive Assistant

Black History is American History. What many forget is that history is happening every day—and we don’t have to wait to celebrate it. But what does that look like, exactly? Join host Jennie Brooks in conversation with senior consultant, Annabella Rossetti and lead associate, Damarius Coleman-Everett, who both sit on the Recruitment and Retention Committee of Booz Allen’s African American Network. Listen in as they talk about how to elevate Black excellence to new heights and what each of us can do every day, to make a real, tangible difference in our workplaces and beyond.  

CONTACT: [email protected]

Podcast Host: Jennie Brooks, Executive Vice President, Navy Marine Corps Team

Writing, Editing, & Production: Enrico E. Manalo, Content Strategist

Guest Scheduling: Bridget Bunning, Executive Assistant