Joe Gerstandt | keynote speaker, freedom fighter, freak-flag flier

Once in a while people ask me what I do.  And this is one of those questions that I am supposed to have an award winning answer ready for at all times.  But I do not.  I actually struggle with this question.  It is not that I do not know what I do…that would be   [Read More…]

Great video about what looks to be a great book by Youngme Moon

I am attending the 2010 Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity, and yesterday I presented a session called New Rules, New Tools which was a basic intro to Web 2.0 for diversity and inclusion practitioners and a consideration of how these tools might be applied to D & I work.  This is my slidedeck. New Rules   [Read More…]

I came across yet another article recently questioning the value of diversity training, and I always find the responses to these articles interesting, but I also find the articles themselves to be interesting in the way in which they hold diversity training up to standards that I do not see applied to other bodies of   [Read More…]

This is how we create next generation culture in our organization or in our community… One action at a time. One relationship at a time. One conversation at a time. One word at a time. The single most important thing that we can do to bring about real change is to consistently act in accordance   [Read More…]

In one of my past lives I managed a team of thirteen very talented people.  It was a really cool group of people and I tried to make opportunity available to them and get out of their way for the most part.  At that particular organization we had an annual performance review process and part   [Read More…]

Considering the warrior concept… I believe that the defining issue of our time is that we suffer greatly from an absence of leadership.  We have bookstores full of books about leadership.  We have plenty of people who consider themselves to be leaders.  We have plenty of people writing, speaking and shouting about leadership.  What we   [Read More…]

My good friend Mary Schaefer and I exchange some blog posts from time to time and we are currently looking at what a better way of leadership would look like.  I threw a quesion out there for us both to consider and this beautiful post is Mary’s response.  Enjoy. JOE: We both talk about a   [Read More…]

Three years ago today, I started blogging.  A lot has happened in the last three years, but blogging has been a very valuable thing for me personally and professionally…and also very challenging.  No regrets though.  Here is to 3 more years, a new look for the blog in the near future, and here is to   [Read More…]