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

This is a slightly modified version of a post  I wrote for my old blog in early 2010. A lot of my work happens with and around HR folks…and that means that a lot of it happens with and around SHRM.  I have attended and presented for a number of SHRM events, local, state and   [Read More…]

Sorry, I just couldn’t think of a title for this post. This is actually my final post about HRevolution. Just about done for the week and looking forward to leaving tomorrow morning for Atlanta and HRevolution 2011.  I have already written the smart-ass post and the kiss-ass post, so this one was going to be   [Read More…]

In my initial conversations with a potential client organization, which are generally with senior leaders and/or HR folks, I am consistently told by them how inclusive they are.  They rarely can define inclusion in a way that makes sense, but that is for another post.  For a lot of folks, inclusion brings to mind ideas   [Read More…]

I have been terribly lax in my blogging lately and that is probably going to be the case for a few more weeks just due to my schedule.  Been blessed to participate in a lot of really cool events lately and I wanted to share one of them with you.  A few weeks ago I   [Read More…]

What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity. -Chip and Dan Heath I was recently having a conversation about my work, and the senior leader that I was talking with took issue with the way in which I was using the words diversity and inclusion.  I was accused of watering down diversity and   [Read More…]

Pretty cool way to start the week… I get to talk about diversity and inclusion…on the radio…with Dr. Julianne Malveaux.  Pretty good stuff.  The show is The Sound of Ideas and it airs Monday morning at 9am (EST).  My understanding is that they will be livecasting the show (though I will not be there in   [Read More…]

Bias. Amazing. Really? I came across a post (thanks to Twitter as usual) recently about academic bias against conservatives. “John Tierney of The New York Times offers a really important report on the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s recent annual meeting. As Tierney writes, “Some of the world’s preeminent experts on bias discovered an   [Read More…]

If you have visited this blog before you know that I see diversity and inclusion as incredibly misunderstood.  Most organizations have sloppy definitions of diversity and it gets even worse when they talk about inclusion.  I am not suggesting that everyone define or view inclusion the same way, but there does need to be some   [Read More…]

a draft… Diversity 1.0 Diversity means difference. 1.1 Difference takes many forms. 1.2 Diversity in our social identities is paradoxical. 1.21 In some ways we are all alike. 1.22 There are various and many social groups we belong to which we share specific things with. 1.23 In some ways each one of us is completely   [Read More…]

I am pretty critical when it comes to the topic of leadership.  I think that the defining issue of our time is a great absence of leadership. I see a lot of great things said and written about leadership…I do not see a lot of it actually showing up in our communities, our organizations and   [Read More…]