No matter what industry you work in, productive and efficient teams are a must for success. Yet it’s not always easy to create and maintain a well-oiled team. That’s why I love the Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance Model—it provides a simple, step-by-step framework for understanding team development. If you didn’t read my first post on the […]
The Hidden Story Behind Your Organization’s DEI Data
Successful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is more than just checking off boxes about gender and race. It’s about new types of workplace conversations, personal self-awareness, courage to call out micro-aggressions, organizational culture change, increased innovation, and a thorough data-driven DEI approach.
Book Review: The Disordered Cosmos
Even today, you won’t hear many perspectives from black, women cosmologists/theoretical physicists. Not surprisingly then, this incredibly personal, emotional, and scientific work, The Disordered Cosmos, might be the most unique and original book you’ve read in years.
Discovering Diversity Success: 10 Questions to Ask Yourself
A few years back, I was yearning for a community to embrace me, a tribe that would understand and respect that I’m not just a few general categories of a person, including female, Latina, mother.
DEI is Personal: My Story of Family, Kenya, and a Career
Diversity has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. We just never called it diversity when I was growing up. But it was there all along.
Diversity as a Revenue Engine: What 16+ Studies Reveal
“What’s the business case for DEI?” is one of the most common questions we hear. Investing in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) leads to cost savings through reduced attrition and absenteeism, and faster, less expensive recruiting; it also contributes to the top line as well.
Making Diversity, Equity and Inclusion faster, easier, and actionable
“How do we recruit people of color?”, “Why can’t we get better diversity representation at our leadership level? “or “What does an engaged and inclusive workforce look like?” My team has fielded questions like this for the past ten years.
How to Harness Organizational Creativity
Leadership lessons can come from the most unexpected places. Burning Man is a great example of this. Fast Company recently wrote an article about this eight day “festival” of sorts.
Leadership in the Zone – How to Fully Engage Mentally
Being a fully engaged leader takes focus on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of our lives. As you saw in my last posts, I do well with the physical aspects.
Engaging Employees Through Sustainability
So you want to start an employee engagement program? BBMG recently released a white paper that addresses sustainability as an organizational core value, which not only helps the planet but also increases employee engagement.
