January 5th, 2009
Evelyn Rodriguez has a great post this morning on her blog, based on a quote that I love: “Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.“ – Noam Chomsky I love this quote, because it is a good reminder [Read More…]
January 1st, 2009
The first post of 2009… To those of you who Look, See and Tell The Truth…Thank You. Regardless of what your “job” is, if you are personally or professionally involved in the work of: building and supporting healthy, sustainable communities and organizations removing barriers to diversity challenging assumptions health, wellness, spirituality, awareness breaking stereotypes speaking [Read More…]
December 23rd, 2008
A big part of my work involves developing and delivering workshops focused on issues of diversity, inclusion, healthy relationships and cultures. I was recently delivering a half-day workshop for a client organization and started things off by asking everyone to briefly introduce themselves and also to share the one thing they really hoped to get [Read More…]
December 22nd, 2008
December 16th, 2008
One of my Twitter friends Jamie Notter, has touched on the idea of transparency recently over at his blog, which is always a good read. I was especially interested to see the issue of transparency being looked at as I see transparency as an important part of an inclusive organizational culture. I am working on [Read More…]
December 16th, 2008
2008 has been a very cool year, for a lot of reasons. 2009 looks to be even better. One of the cool things about 2009 is that I will be part of The Guru Nation. Starting in January I will be one of their contributors and once I have some scheduling information, I will post [Read More…]
December 14th, 2008
As we continue to get unpleasant economic news and predictions, more and more leaders and organizations are starting to think seriously about the actions they can take to be more financially resilient in the coming year. I have written before about how and why diversity and inclusion represent great value to organizations, and if anything [Read More…]
December 10th, 2008
I may be a bit odd. It is actually quite likely. But one thing that has always seemed strange to me is our level of deference to “experts.” I understand that experts become known as such for a reason and I appreciate the value of advanced educations, years of experience and unique insight. While [Read More…]
December 9th, 2008
You should follow me on Twitter. This is what I talk about: absolutely actually agreed @allicatco amazing apparently away awesome baby bad beautiful bed best better big bit book @brendajos business change check coffee come community conference cool day days did different dig diversity does @elchuy @ewoman far favorite feel fist folks follow followers following [Read More…]