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

This Just In!!!!! Diversity is the New Racism!!! In case you have not been paying attention, apprerently Diversity and Multiculturalism are the new Racism…intersting article here. Whats Next? Is cat going to be the new dog?  Is Socialism going to become the new Capitalism? Oh, whoops…bad example I guess! I have a number of issues   [Read More…]

A couple of my favorite new (and very timely) on-line resources… Center for Social Inclusion The Center for Social Inclusion works to build a fair and just society by dismantling structural racism. We partner with communities of color and other allies to create strategies and build policy reform models to end racial disparity and promote   [Read More…]

More Jedi training… The Omaha Young Professionals Council in collaboration with Talent Anarchy brings you Step Up: Taking Charge of your Future this Thursday (10.30.08). Because you cannot get there if you don’t know where you are going.  Step Up provides individuals with both the understanding of how to take control of their careers and   [Read More…]

A LOT of people spend a LOT of time talking about “talent” today.  Talent acquisition, talent management, etc., etc.  A good friend of mine just returned from a Talent Management Summit.  I have other friends in Florida for a conference on talent management and other related issues.  I am not against this or opposed to   [Read More…]

Register Today!!!  Working with Humans – October 15th Working with Humans is truly becoming the workshop that everyone is talking about.  Over the past year, I have delivered it to audiences in Omaha, Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska – Des Moines, Ames and Sioux City, Iowa.  Sioux Falls, South Dakota – Kansas City, Missouri and   [Read More…]

Why is diversity important? There are a lot of reasons why diversity and inclusion are important.  There are social justice reasons, there are theological reasons, there are physical and mental health reasons and compliance reasons.  There are a number of very strong business case reasons, but I want to briefly touch on some of the   [Read More…]

Working with Humans is truly becoming the workshop that everyone is talking about.  Over the past year, I have delivered it to audiences in Omaha, Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska – Des Moines, Ames and Sioux City, Iowa.  Sioux Falls, South Dakota – Kansas City, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois.  The more that I do it,   [Read More…]

On Friday, September 19th, I am fortunate enough to be one of the presenters for the Society for Human Resource Management-NE Annual Conference, where I will be talking about Innovation for Human Resource folks, in a presentation called “Making Stuff Up.”  On October 10th I get to be a part of the Iowa Young Professionals   [Read More…]

Brian Smith and some other good folks bringing new perspectives and new voices to town for our benefit.  Check it out.

Carmen Hudson (aka Peopleshark) wrote an excellent blog series called, “Five Days to Twitter Literacy (Twitteracy).

Did you read it? If not, you missed out.

You can follow Carmen on Twitter, you can read her blog, but you should definitely follow her advice and get schooled on Twitter ASAP.