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

Just a heads up on events that are on my calendar and open via registration.  Things are winding down for this calendar year, but the first half of 2011 is starting to look good! Minnesota Recruiters Conference 12 ||  Friday, December 3rd  ||  Minneapolis, MN 45th Annual Northern Ohio HR Conference ||  Friday, March 11th    [Read More…]

It seems like it has been a long time since I participated in Carnival of HR, so I thought I would jump in on this one.  Trish McFarlane is hosting and she is interested in the turning points, the things that have changed our path. I think there have been a number of pivotal moments   [Read More…]

A couple months ago, Trish McFarlane wrote a post that hit home with me.  It was titled, Hope is not a Strategy, and spoke about how difficult it can be at times to deliver on both the promises that we make to our profession and the promises that we make to our family. This post   [Read More…]

Todays rant. I have said numerous time before that HR should not own organizational diversity and inclusion work, and I think that there are a number of reasons for that, but lets just cut to the heart of the matter.  HR does not want to do the work.  HR likes to get credit for “getting   [Read More…]

The funny thing about human resources, management, organizational and leadership development is that this is all work largely about human beings, yet these disciplines cling to a flawed and antiquated model of human behavior.  There remains this default belief that human beings are rational and logical, that we see the world as it is, consider   [Read More…]

A bunch of stuff seems to be touching on a common theme for me right now.  I have had several conversations in the past few weeks with friends of mine who have discovered they are not employed in the right place by the right people.  I have also had a number of conversations with speaking   [Read More…]

Everyone on the planet is talking about social media…except for diversity and inclusion practitioners.  Okay, a bit of an exaggeration, but not that big.  Of all the conferences that I have participated in this fall, D&I conferences are the only ones where social media has been absent from the agenda.  I have even felt some   [Read More…]

Open Community and diversity and inclusion I’m taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. In this post, Maddie and Lindy introduce the book and discuss a few of the ideas   [Read More…]

What is diversity and inclusion work and who does it? This is maybe a good question to begin this series with and here is my vague and rambling answer.  There are a lot of things involved in diversity and inclusion work and there are a lot of different people contributing to it in one way   [Read More…]

I am anxious about the future. I have very real concerns about whether D&I work is evolving in the ways that it needs to and at the rate that we need it to.  I think that diversity and inclusion continue to be the most misunderstood issues in the world of business, organizational, community and individual   [Read More…]