This week on Untapped, David Baboolall (They/Them), Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company stopped by to discuss an in-depth and impactful report, Being Transgender At Work. Tariq Meyers (He/Him) and David discuss why this research was done, the significant learnings from the report, and what organizations need to be thinking about and actioning on to create an inclusive work environment for transgender employees. 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why this research was conducted 
• What being trans today often looks and feels like 
• How language is a barrier to comprehension
• What do “transgender” and “non-binary” actually mean?
• Most significant learnings from the McKinsey report
• If remote work been the great equalizer or not? 
• What are the first things an organization needs to be thinking about when it comes to trans-inclusion 
• What can companies do today that can begin to reserve some of the harm that exists in the process? 

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This week on Untapped with Tariq Meyers, Lambert Odeh, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion professional shares his point of view on DEI and explains why it shouldn't be considered a conventional business initiative. Lambert also shares the lessons he learned about how to become an effective ERG leader.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Quick wins for diversity and inclusion in the workplace
• How you can measure impact when it comes to DEI
• Why DEI Is untraditional
• Lambert’s experience of “selling a dream” 
• First 90 days of Lambert experience in DEI 
• Actionable piece of advice on how to get started on this journey 
• How you can grow your DEI knowledge 

About Lambert Odeh:
Lambert Odeh (he/him) is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion professional currently in the tech space. Lambert moved into DEI full time after resonating with Employee Resource Group leadership, creating DEI talent management initiatives, and diversity recruiting in his previous roles. 

Build diverse teams with an all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting.

Untapped is on a mission to make the world more equitable by broadening access to transformative careers. Our all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting, helps companies build diverse teams with confidence and reduce time to hire. Unlock the power of Untapped’s highly diverse and fast-growing talent pool of nearly one million searchable profiles complete with self-reported information. Startups to Fortune 500 companies are using Untapped to source and connect with Gen Z talent, identify biases in the hiring process, enhance employer branding, and measure the ROI of recruiting initiatives.

https://www.untapped.io/recruiters

This week on Untapped with Tariq Meyers, Angela Cafarelli stops by to talk about how companies can make sure they are creating inclusive work environments for Next-Gen workers and the LGBTQ+ community. Angela and Tariq take a deeper look at DEI now with a post-pandemic perspective. 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to restore humanity back into this work 
• Foundations of systemic change
• LGBTQ+ community + DEI today
• How to get rid of norms that we are used to saying
• concept of bringing your authentic self to work
• Why are we seeing director level retention issue 

About our guest: Angela is the Director, Inclusion & Diversity - Global Technology at Prudential. Angela is responsible for designing and managing Inclusion and Diversity strategies, programs, and initiatives for Global Technology through three areas of focus: business, talent, and culture impacts. Angela has 10 years of experience working in a variety of HR and I&D roles. 

Build diverse teams with an all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting.

Untapped is on a mission to make the world more equitable by broadening access to transformative careers. Our all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting, helps companies build diverse teams with confidence and reduce time to hire. Unlock the power of Untapped’s highly diverse and fast-growing talent pool of nearly one million searchable profiles complete with self-reported information. Startups to Fortune 500 companies are using Untapped to source and connect with Gen Z talent, identify biases in the hiring process, enhance employer branding, and measure the ROI of recruiting initiatives.

https://www.untapped.io/recruiters

This week Leaf Group’s VP of DEI and Talent Management, Tara Turk-Haynes, stopped by Untapped to discuss the value of storytelling and its impact on DEI. Find out what Tara has to say about the value of incorporating DEI into your business, picking and choosing your battles, and restoring the humanity of DEI work. 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why centering DEI work is vital 
• The most impactful thing recruiters can do right now from a DEI perspective
• How to keep your eyes on the prize and replenish yourself as a DEI practitioner
• The future of DEI at the intersection of recruiting

Build diverse teams with an all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting.

Untapped is on a mission to make the world more equitable by broadening access to transformative careers. Our all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting, helps companies build diverse teams with confidence and reduce time to hire. Unlock the power of Untapped’s highly diverse and fast-growing talent pool of nearly one million searchable profiles complete with self-reported information. Startups to Fortune 500 companies are using Untapped to source and connect with Gen Z talent, identify biases in the hiring process, enhance employer branding, and measure the ROI of recruiting initiatives.

https://www.untapped.io/recruiters

This week on Untapped we were joined by Joahanna Garcia-Thomas who heads HR at Avalanche Studios New York & is the Head of People for Glow Up Games, both video game companies. Joahanna shared her expertise and knowledge from having worked in HR for 15 years and having the opportunity to focus on DEI in the past 5 years. Tariq and Joahanna discuss colorism, intersectionality & positionality, and how the pandemic shifted DEI work. 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The impact of ‘what’s in it for me’ (WIIFM)
• How intersectionality & positionality show up  
• Why DEI work has a lot of resistance
• The wheel of power/privilege
• How the pandemic shifted DEI work 
• The reality of colorism

Build diverse teams with an all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting.

Untapped is on a mission to make the world more equitable by broadening access to transformative careers. Our all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting, helps companies build diverse teams with confidence and reduce time to hire. Unlock the power of Untapped’s highly diverse and fast-growing talent pool of nearly one million searchable profiles complete with self-reported information. Startups to Fortune 500 companies are using Untapped to source and connect with Gen Z talent, identify biases in the hiring process, enhance employer branding, and measure the ROI of recruiting initiatives.

https://www.untapped.io/recruiters

This week on Untapped, Julie Sowash, joins Tariq Meyers to discuss how organizations can improve disability inclusion in their hiring processes and beyond. Julie, Executive Director of Disability Solutions and Co-Host of Crazy and The King Podcast, discusses the barriers to employment for people with disabilities and how companies can work to remove those barriers. 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How far has DEI come with regard to people with disabilities?
• What is the silver lining of the pandemic in relation to the disability community?
• How is mental illness the elephant in the room? 
• In what ways do people with disabilities face barriers to employment? And how can organizations address and solve these challenges?

Build diverse teams with an all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting.

Untapped is on a mission to make the world more equitable by broadening access to transformative careers. Our all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting, helps companies build diverse teams with confidence and reduce time to hire. Unlock the power of Untapped’s highly diverse and fast-growing talent pool of nearly one million searchable profiles complete with self-reported information. Startups to Fortune 500 companies are using Untapped to source and connect with Gen Z talent, identify biases in the hiring process, enhance employer branding, and measure the ROI of recruiting initiatives.

https://www.untapped.io/recruiters

This week on Untapped, Dr. VIjay Pendakur, Vice President and Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer at Zynga stopped by to discuss the framework around diversity and inclusion. We spoke about where we are in the future of work today and how employee activism has made an impact. 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How corporations are currently going through the same thing higher education went through  
• The impact on employee activism and DEI 
• Performativity in DEI work: the double-edged sword 
• Quality control in the DEI space 

Build diverse teams with an all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting.

Untapped is on a mission to make the world more equitable by broadening access to transformative careers. Our all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting, helps companies build diverse teams with confidence and reduce time to hire. Unlock the power of Untapped’s highly diverse and fast-growing talent pool of nearly one million searchable profiles complete with self-reported information. Startups to Fortune 500 companies are using Untapped to source and connect with Gen Z talent, identify biases in the hiring process, enhance employer branding, and measure the ROI of recruiting initiatives.

https://www.untapped.io/recruiters

This week we had the pleasure of sitting down with John Graham, VP, Employer Brand, Diversity & Culture at Shaker Recruitment Marketing. We dive into the topic of politeness and diversity, equity and inclusion, and how it impacts DEI practitioners. 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What diversity theatre is and why it’s stopping us from seeing more opportunities for untapped talent 
• The two definitions of politeness in DEI 
• The hidden language of corporate America
• The one piece of advice John has for DEI & Talent leaders to move the needle today 
• How to improve the lived experiences of marginalized employee populations through approaches that disrupt the status quo
• Where to start when you’re trying to build an inclusive employer brand

Build diverse teams with an all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting.

Untapped is on a mission to make the world more equitable by broadening access to transformative careers. Our all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting, helps companies build diverse teams with confidence and reduce time to hire. Unlock the power of Untapped’s highly diverse and fast-growing talent pool of nearly one million searchable profiles complete with self-reported information. Startups to Fortune 500 companies are using Untapped to source and connect with Gen Z talent, identify biases in the hiring process, enhance employer branding, and measure the ROI of recruiting initiatives.

https://www.untapped.io/recruiters

This week on Untapped, Daniel Botero, Founder of Mastering College To Career, discusses ways companies can rethink how they recruit first-generation early career candidates in order to solve the problem on both the recruitment and the candidate sides of the coin. 

In this episode, you’ll learn: 

• What recruiters and companies can be doing to hire diverse teams, especially first-gen & historically underrepresented college students. 
• Specific barriers and challenges that first-generation students face during their job search that recruiters and talent leaders should be aware of. 
• Ways companies can support first-generation employees or historically underrepresented college students once they are hired
• How the current way we measure success hurts first-generation, underrepresented students
• What GenZ wants and values in an organization 
• How GenZ and Millennials differ from one another

Build diverse teams with an all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting.

Untapped is on a mission to make the world more equitable by broadening access to transformative careers. Our all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting, helps companies build diverse teams with confidence and reduce time to hire. Unlock the power of Untapped’s highly diverse and fast-growing talent pool of nearly one million searchable profiles complete with self-reported information. Startups to Fortune 500 companies are using Untapped to source and connect with Gen Z talent, identify biases in the hiring process, enhance employer branding, and measure the ROI of recruiting initiatives.

https://www.untapped.io/recruiters

This week on Untapped with Tariq Meyers, we sat down with Kellie Wagner, founder of DEI Collective — a DEI consultancy. We spoke about some untapped ideas that may make you look at D&I work a little differently.

In this episode, you’ll learn: 

• How to move from diversity and inclusion theory to action 
• The tension between theory and action 
• How focusing on theory may sometimes hurt D&I practice
• Unintended consequences of identity politics that have surfaced
• With employees being multi-dimensional and D&I not being a one-size-fits-all approach, what does the future of DEI look like?  

Build diverse teams with an all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting.

Untapped is on a mission to make the world more equitable by broadening access to transformative careers. Our all-in-one platform optimized for early talent recruiting, helps companies build diverse teams with confidence and reduce time to hire. Unlock the power of Untapped’s highly diverse and fast-growing talent pool of nearly one million searchable profiles complete with self-reported information. Startups to Fortune 500 companies are using Untapped to source and connect with Gen Z talent, identify biases in the hiring process, enhance employer branding, and measure the ROI of recruiting initiatives.

https://www.untapped.io/recruiters