Robert Schimmenti, Senior Vice President of Electric Operations for Con Edison, joins Dr. Weaver for a revealing discussion about why diversity, inclusion and belonging are key in improving employee engagement and creating culture change.

In this Episode

• Employee Engagement defined
• How Robert Schimmenti increased Employee Engagement at Con Edison
• Con Edison’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on employee performance
• How Con Edison improved wellness scores during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Tips for creating a more engaged workforce

Resources

• Robert Schimmenti
• Dr. Vanessa Weaver
• Consolidated Edison
• Alignment Strategies
• Gallup study about employee engagement

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Barron Witherspoon, Senior Vice President, Global Industry Affairs & Corporate Race Initiative at Procter & Gamble, talks to Dr. Weaver about why Corporate America must disrupt racism and the role of P&G’s multicompany Take on Race initiative in this process.

In this Episode

• An overview of the current racial disparities in the U.S.
• How Corporate America is responding our country’s racial disparities
• What is Take on Race and how is it helping corporations address racial disparities?

Resources

• Barron Witherspoon
• Dr. Vanessa Weaver
• Proctor & Gamble
• Alignment Strategies
• Take on Race
• Census Bureau: Current Population Survey

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Deborah Tsai Munster, Executive Vice President, People and Operations at Working Mother Media and Diversity Best Practices, joins Dr. Weaver to discuss the rise in anti-Asian bias in the United States, how corporations are responding and what Asian professionals can do to support themselves and effect change. 

In this Episode 

• The current state of anti-Asian bias 
• How Deborah has been impacted by anti-Asian bias 
• How the Stop AAPI Hate and Black Lives Matter movements can work together 
• What corporations are doing to support their Asian employees 
• Tips for Asian professionals experiencing bias 

Resources 

• Deborah Tsai-Munster 
• Dr. Vanessa Weaver 
• Diversity Best Practices 
• Alignment Strategies 
• Voice of America: “Hate Crimes Targeting Asian Americans Spiked by 150% in Major US Cities” 
• Queens Chronicle: “Anti-Asian Hate Crime Jumps 1,900 Percent” 
• Stop AAPI [Asian American Pacific Islander] Hate  

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Kamilah Smith, Senior Manager, GPS Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Capability Leader at Deloitte, joins Dr. Weaver to discuss how she balances the demands of work, marriage and parenting and what it takes to manage it all during a global pandemic.

In this Episode

• How the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting working mothers
• How Kamilah has found balance as a wife and mother working from home
• How supervisors can support employees who are working mothers
• Tips for working mothers during the pandemic

Resources

• Kamilah Smith
• Dr. Vanessa Weaver
• Deloitte
• Alignment Strategies
• COVID-19 and the Working Woman Part I - Impact on Women in the Workforce
• INROADS (Workin’ It Out Podcast Partner)

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Jennifer Owens, an expert on women’s workplace issues and co-host of The Breadwinners podcast, joins Dr. Weaver to share research findings about the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on working women and to offer tips for navigating this challenging time.  

In this Episode

• The high unemployment rate for women during the pandemic
• The impact of female unemployment on industries where women are more present
• How women often juggle both work and motherhood
• Female unemployment and its effects on women of color
• How organizations can do more to support women during the pandemic

Resources

• Jennifer Owens
• Dr. Vanessa Weaver
• The Breadwinners Podcast
• Alignment Strategies
• Jennwork
• Economist Heather Boushey
• The Council on Contemporary Families

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Mayra Martinez-Sacco, CEO, Mayden Enterprises, LLC joins Dr. Weaver to share her personal experience with covering—hiding an aspect of who one is in order to fit in—at work and how she gained the courage to be her authentic self.

In this Episode

• What covering is and how and why it shows up in the workplace
• The personal and professional impact of covering
• Mindfulness as a tool to develop the courage to uncover

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• Mayra Martinez-Sacco
•  Dr. Vanessa Weaver
• Mayden Enterprises, LLC
• Alignment Strategies
• Uncovering talent: A new model of inclusion
• Own Your Shift: An Invitation to Transform Using a Mindfulness Toolkit
• Own Your Shift Podcast

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Forest Harper CEO of INROADS, joins Dr. Weaver to discuss the role of internships in shaping the future careers of college students of color and the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on this critical pathway to Corporate America. 

In this Episode

• The origins of INROADS
• The barriers facing college students of color
• How COVID-19 has impacted corporate internship programs
• How INROADS is supporting students of color during COVID-19
• Tips on how companies can increase diversity within their internship programs

Resources

• Forest Harper
• Dr. Vanessa Weaver
• INROADS
• Alignment Strategies
• The Executive Leadership Council
• National Association of Colleges and Employers
• Magnitude Simba - Students

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Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman joins Dr. Weaver for a discussion about the ways Corporate America is responding to the racial reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd and how professionals of color can leverage this increased commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging. 

In this Episode

• How Corporate America is responding to the country’s racial reckoning
• Three lenses of diversity and inclusion work
• Corporate America’s partnership with Black organizations
• The ESG principle
• How Multicultural professionals can benefit from Corporate America’s increased focus on diversity and inclusion

Resources and Links

• Alexis Herman
• Dr. Vanessa Weaver
• Alignment Strategies
• Clark Atlanta University Partners with Propel Center, a New Global HBCU Headquarters for Innovation
• Nasdaq to Advance Diversity through New Proposed Listing Requirements
• Take on Race
• OneTen

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Renowned labor economist Dr. Julianne Malveaux joins Dr. Vanessa Weaver to discuss the black wealth gap—its origins, common misconceptions, and the role of Corporate America and “extraneous infusion” in closing the gap.

In this Episode

• Black female economic trailblazers
• The impact of COVID-19 on Black wealth
• Black American’s economic history and the role of racism in creating a wealth gap
• The role of Corporate America and “extraneous infusion” in closing the wealth gap
• How the racial wealth gap impacts society overall
• Recommendations for addressing the racial wealth gap and building Black wealth

Resources

• Dr. Julianne Malveaux
• Dr. Vanessa Weaver
• Alignment Strategies
• Wall Street, Main Street and the Side Street: A Mad Economist Takes a Stroll
• Working While Black: The Black Person’s Guide to Success in the White Workplace
• Surviving and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History
• The Economic Impact of Closing the Racial Wealth Gap
• Maggie Lena Walker

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Dr. Weaver is joined by Janet Wigfield, Alignment Strategies' VP, Media & Virtual Events, to discuss why white women grapple with the concept of white privilege and why their understanding and acknowledgement of this privilege is essential to the advancement of diversity, equity and inclusion. White privilege is a recurring topic of the Same Race/Cross Race Conversations Weaver and Wigfield designed together for Working Mother Media's annual Multicultural Women’s National Conference.

In this Episode

• Defining white privilege
• The value of same-race and cross-race conversations
• The challenges in recognizing white privilege
• White privilege and the Karen stereotype
• The relationship between white women and women of color in the workplace
• Misconceptions about affirmative action and access

Resources and Links

• Janet Wigfield
• Dr. Vanessa Weaver
• Working Mother Media
• Alignment Strategies
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism
• Multicultural Women's National Conference
• The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality without Racism

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