Work Revolution

Sustainability and CSR expert Lindsay Colley talks about the evolving role of businesses in our society and what they must do to ensure their own long-term survival. Lindsay also shares her career journey from financial auditing at Ernst Young to using her expertise and capabilities in service of a cause greater than herself. Bonus features include bugs as a source of protein and the career limitations of being short.

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Editing by Rodney Lock

Music: This World is Yours by Gyom

While companies push for ‘change agility’ from their people and in their business operations, they have made glacially slow progress on the issues that matter to most of us.

Michael Bach, Founder and CEO of the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion and author of Birds of All Feathers: Doing Diversity and Inclusion Right, shares his theories and experiences pushing for change, while I express my frustration and impatience waiting for it.

Hint: The problem has something to do with the fact that it’s almost exclusively white, cisgender men who are in positions to make change happen, and they don’t see how diversity and inclusion serves their self-interest.

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If you are feeling confused by the growing list of characters in LGBTQIA2S+ and not sure you’re ready to announce your pronouns on LinkedIn, listen as Pride at Work Canada’s, Colin Druhan schools me on appropriate language, workplace challenges facing the queer and trans community, and the changes needed to make workplaces more inclusive.

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Neuromanagement expert Dr. Carlos Davidovich and I talk about why job loss can be one of life’s most traumatic events and what we can do to remain calm and strategically focused during job search.  Turns out my habit of talking to myself is called metacognition - and it's a good thing!

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Professor and Psychologist Marie-Helene Budworth talks about race, gender and sex at work both as a researcher and based on her own experiences as a mixed-race person. We talk about insights gained while grocery shopping and call bullshit on the idea that minority groups need to prove an ROI and demonstrate ‘performance indicators’ to justify more inclusive workspaces.

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Lisa and I boldly go there; we share our thinking and some personal experiences related to the concepts of white supremacy, privilege, sexism and shitty bosses of all stripes. I unpack one of the biases I grew up with and how I first learned that women are considered a minority group,  

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Moving up in an organization usually means taking on people management responsibilities, whether you like it or not. Many bosses don't enjoy managing people, don't have the skillset for it and/or don't feel they have the time to commit to it; they're promoted largely because of their ability to manage up, leaving their direct reports without a role model and someone to help them grow, learn and develop - all the things that contribute to engagement and help people reach their full potential.   Marie-Hélène Budworth, an Associate Professor in the School of Human Resource Management at York University talks about the boss' role in communicating with and leading employees.

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Engineer Kathryn Petroff talks about how she learned to be a tough-minded, straight shooter to fit in during the early days of her career and then had to unlearn it all to play nice in a corporate environment - and which style suits her better.  We also talk about how too many meetings and an obsession with productivity is killing creative problem solving, and much more!

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What's scarier, telling your friends, family and work colleagues that you're gay or doing Improv in front of a live audience? Well, my friend Monica has an opinion on that.  As one of very few female Air Traffic Controllers, Monica talks about the culture at work and her process of coming out to her co-workers. Then we compare notes on how we've used our wits to navigate potential #metoo moments. 

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I love nothing more than a robust, thoughtful conversation with my colleague Lisa Schmidt about work, leadership and organizational culture. In this episode we explore women's experience of the workplace, through the lens of research on confidence and the role that it plays in our promotability. We go on from there to talk about driving-RVs-while-female, stereotypes about women with kids (me) and those without (Lisa), and the fallacy that an organization's values tell us anything about what it's like to work there.

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Editing by Rodney Lock

Music: This World is Yours by Gyom