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

From Danielle Nantkes, Field Director Nebraskans United:    Greetings!     The Memorial Day holiday has recently passed and summer is finally here. Along with the enjoyable aspects of the season, baseball games, barbecues, and gardening, comes another more unsavory aspect of summer-OUT OF STATE PAID CIRCULATORS flooding into Nebraska pushing their dangerous political agenda.     This year   [Read More…]

From the New York Times: Diversity Isn’t Rocket Science, Is It?By LISA BELKIN BACK in the bad old days, the workplace was a battleground, where sexist jokes and assumptions were the norm. Women were shut off from promotion by an old boys’ network that favored its own. They went to meetings and were often the   [Read More…]

From Business Week Ten Reasons Gen Xers Are Unhappy at WorkCorporations really need folks in their 30s to early 40s, but there is a tentative relationship at best between that cohort and Corporate America by Tammy EricksonMay 10, 2008 9:46 AM I’m worried about Generation X and corporations. As far as I can tell, these   [Read More…]

You may register for the Stem Equity Pipeline webinar, May 21, 2008, 1pm, Assessing Effectiveness:  Insights Learned from the Assessing Women and Men in Engineering Project. http://www.stemequitypipeline.org/WhatsNew/WhatsNew.aspx   Tricia Berry, Director of the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin, is responsible for leading the efforts on recruitment and retention of   [Read More…]

It is a beautiful Monday in Omaha!  I am on the campus of UNO today speaking at the Midlands Industry Liaison Group 2008 Affirmative Action Technical Session…that is a mouthful.  I am kind of the oddball on the agenda, as I am not talking about Affirmative Action or any aspect of compliance or reporting, but   [Read More…]

Working with Humans is coming to Grand Island.  I do not have the registration site set up yet, but there will be a Working with Humans workshop on Friday, July 18th (1:00 – 4:30pm).   

From the New York Times… Gay rights groups launch hospital rating system THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Published: May 13, 2008 NEW YORK (AP) — Just over half of 88 hospitals got top marks under a new rating system created by two national gay-rights organizations which hope the standards will result in more compassionate treatment of   [Read More…]

from the Des Moines Register… Workbytes: Helicopter parents invade workplace   By KAREN MRACEK • kmracek@dmreg.com • May 12, 2008 I took two years of calculus in college to become a journalist. Why, you ask? It’s not like we do a lot of conditional convergence or quadratic equations in our daily reporting. Even in business   [Read More…]

  The 28th National Veterans Wheelchair Games will be held at the Qwest Center Omaha on July 25-29. This is the first time since the inception of the Games that the event has been held in Nebraska.  The Volunteer Committee is still looking for volunteers.  We are all busy, but if you feel so inclined,   [Read More…]

Wow, I have not posted in almost two weeks, which is unheard of.  Sorry for the absence, I have been running around the country and have fallen a bit behind.  Last Wednesday (May 7th) I spent a kind of rainy day in Kansas City, which proved to be very valuable visit and on Thursday I   [Read More…]