Embracing Equity
- 26 Courses | 14h 26m 45s
- 26 Books | 106h 1m
- 51 Audiobooks | 396h 29m 9s
The growth and success of a business depends upon embracing inclusion and eliminating bias and discrimination in the workplace. Embrace equity and discover ways to foster an inclusive environment.
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Adopting New Leadership Mindsets to Drive DEI
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Adopting New Leadership Mindsets to Drive DEI
Are you in a mindset that will help you drive DEI throughout the systems of your organization? As a leader, you hold the keys to activating DEI on your team and in your organization as you role model inclusive behaviors for the people who work for you. DEI as an initiative is multifaceted - it's individual and programmatic, organizational and systemic, and you need a mindset that allows you to shift cultures and embedded norms to enhance every operational area. The discipline of systems thinking is an underlying philosophy that is particularly applicable to complex change efforts such as DEI. Systems thinking is more than just a collection of tools and methods - it's a way of thinking on an ecosystem level. In this course, you'll learn to recognize how systems thinking applies to DEI and practices for examining DEI goals. You'll also learn strategies to build organizational culture awareness for DEI, identify how organizational culture is represented in your team and processes, and recognize how to make DEI part of how you do business, including using more gender-neutral language.
7 videos |
36m
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Activating DEI Culture Shifts
With the right mindset, leaders can transform team and organizational culture. This course is designed to help leaders apply systems thinking methodology to transform team and workplace dynamics. Leaders who develop a systems-thinker approach are better equipped to honor and navigate the complexity of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. In this course, leaders and managers will learn how to push in the direction that produces an inclusive work environment, including using inclusive language, to lead toward transformation for the total enterprise, not just its component parts. You'll also learn how a new way of leadership can support DEI, and what techniques can keep employee engagement and motivation in the work of DEI consistently high.
6 videos |
29m
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Advancing DEI with Agility
Inclusive leadership is an art and a science. Leaders need to build their capacity for creating an inclusive and safe environment where employees feel valued and included, where they can be their authentic selves. This course is designed to provide leaders with a foundation for agile, inclusive leadership that they can build on and, in turn, develop in others. In this course, you will learn to identify a leadership mindset that cultivates inclusion in all work environments, and what key elements of self-leadership promote inclusion. You'll learn strategies to individualize inclusion and belonging for all team members, including using more inclusive language and gender-neutral pronouns, techniques for an intersectional approach to DEI leadership, and inclusive leadership practices that promote development of the whole person.
7 videos |
33m
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Embedding Inclusion into Everyday Experiences
DEI concepts are easy to train, but harder to put into practice. In our ever-changing world of work, leaders are taxed with delivering optimal results and still creating a space where people want to contribute their time, talent, energy, and creativity. This course covers the top ways for leaders to create micro-experiences that have a macro impact on the culture of their teams and their organization. In this course, you'll learn strategies to weave storytelling into everyday work, competencies for leading and enabling inclusive conversations, including using inclusive language and chosen names and pronouns, as well as leadership practices that embody allyship through personal accountability. You'll also learn techniques to use organizational resources equitably to support DEI, and how to gain confidence in building inclusive cultures.
7 videos |
34m
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Reimagining the Employee Experience: DEI from Hire to Retire
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are not just initiatives and programs - they are cultural DNA that can completely transform an organization, drive business, and generate positive results for people, organization, and community. This course is designed to provide organizational leaders and HR leaders with a toolkit for designing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive employee and leadership experience from first interactions onward. It provides practical examples for infusing inclusion into every aspect of the employee experience. In this course, you will learn the key elements of developing a DEI scorecard as a first step in ensuring systemic DEI, strategies to create an inclusive talent acquisition experience including using inclusive language and gender-neutral honorifics, and techniques to enable talent to develop and advance equitably. You'll also learn ways to democratize DEI leadership in association with employee groups and techniques to ensure inclusion in policies, processes, and systems.
7 videos |
36m
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Bridging Differences in Cross-cultural Communication
In today's world, business is global. No matter the industry or sector, the chances that you are working with people from another country or culture are high. Given that business is communication, the ability to communicate successfully across cultures is a mission critical skill. Communicating successfully with people from our own culture, in our own language is challenging enough. When we interact with people from other cultures, the barriers to effective communication are even more pronounced. In this course, you will learn about two principal dimensions of culture that underlie culturally different ways of communicating and learn vocabulary that will allow you to explain differences in communication styles. You will also explore barriers to communicating effectively across cultures and identify ways to overcome them.
7 videos |
26m
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Building Shared Understanding across Cultural Divides
Building good working relationships with any colleague takes time and effort, but when colleagues are from different cultures, creating productive relationships may be more challenging. Cultural differences can impact communication and even steer it away from the intended purpose. When you compound cultural differences with the need to communicate virtually, achieving effective communication becomes even more formidable. In this course, you will learn communication strategies that will help you to effectively build and maintain relationships with culturally diverse colleagues around the globe. From building initial rapport to sharing information, brainstorming, and preventing conflicts, you'll be able to recognize behaviors that will enable you to communicate effectively and achieve your business goals.
7 videos |
26m
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Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Action
A diverse and inclusive workforce is a business and human imperative. Regardless of your role or the size of your organization, everyone can play an active role in fostering diversity, equity, and inclusivity. Future business growth and success depend upon embracing inclusion and eliminating bias and discrimination in the workplace. However, for many organizations, building cultural and business practices that embrace workplace diversity can still feel elusive. Besides hiring diverse talent, what more can we do? This course is your guide to defining diversity, equity, and inclusion and advancing meaningful and impactful diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in your workplace. In this course, you'll learn to recognize key characteristics of DEI and practices for building and sustaining a healthy DEI culture. You'll also learn to identify behaviors that signal a breakdown in achieving an inclusive culture, key elements that enable diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to take root, and the steps for demonstrating agility and resilience in your DEI journey.
7 videos |
31m
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Moving from Bias to Inclusion in a DEI Journey
An increased focus on the importance of DEI in the workplace has shed light on the fact that everyone has bias. Though it's rooted in human nature, it's important to understand what implicit bias is in order to develop the thoughtful inclusion mindset. In this course, you'll learn about the different kinds of implicit bias and how to recognize them in action. You'll also learn about the importance of committing to thoughtful inclusion in the workplace.
7 videos |
32m
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Recognizing and Addressing Micro-behaviors in the Workplace
Micro-behaviors are a macro problem. Dr. Alvin Poussaint described the cumulative impact of micro-aggressions as "death by a thousand nicks." Subtle acts of exclusion - often unconscious - left unchecked will take a toll on your employees. These subtle forms of bias and discrimination often leave people frustrated and lead to decreased productivity. In this course, you'll learn to recognize the characteristics of the different types of micro-behaviors and how to decode the messages they send. You'll also learn to identify when and how to take action to address micro-aggressions, and how to use micro-inclusions as an antidote to micro-aggressions.
6 videos |
26m
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Adopting an Inclusion Mindset at Work
It's not just individuals who face unconscious biases in the workplace; teams and organizations can also operate with shared institutionalized biases. Ensuring a diverse workplace requires actively participating in and advocating for DEI supports. In this course, you'll learn about the power of inclusion and how to support DEI at work. You'll also learn the basics of inclusive recruitment and hiring, and what it looks like when a company supports inclusion from onboarding through to retirement.
6 videos |
24m
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Becoming a DEI Ally and Agent for Change
To understand and appreciate diversity in the workplace, we must develop an understanding of ourselves and the diverse ways in which we view the world. Working in a diverse and inclusive workforce has many personal and professional benefits ranging from improved wellness and personal health to engagement and community and innovation and creativity. Equally important is the ability to leverage each of our unique talents, skills, and contributions. In this course, you'll explore strategies to help you become an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion within the workplace. You'll learn to build awareness of your values and social perspective and recognize specific actions that can improve social and cultural aspects of DEI. You'll also learn about key concepts of allyship, methods to be a more inclusive communicator, and how to use the RISE model to become a DEI ally.
7 videos |
33m
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Understanding Unconscious Bias
No matter who you are, you are prey to unconscious biases. To be part of a complex, diverse team you must take steps to overcome implicit and explicit biases and reject social stereotypes. Understanding you own bias, whether conscious or unconscious, is the key. In this course you'll learn about the characteristics of unconscious bias and the nature of buried prejudice. You'll discover how they can inadvertently affect your thinking and decision-making. And you'll learn about the positive things that can happen when you take an anti-biased approach to people and situations in the workplace.
6 videos |
17m
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Overcoming Your Own Unconscious Biases
Each of us is a member of a society that is often partitioned into groups and tribes. While this is common to most societies, it can have harmful effects in the workplace, interfering with productivity and organizational success. We all hold biases, whether conscious or unconscious. Part of understanding the role of unconscious bias in the workplace is admitting to yourself that you, too, hold biases. Once accepted, you can take an anti-bias approach to overcoming unconscious prejudice. In this course, you'll learn how to recognize your own unconscious and implicit bias and how they can fall prey to social stereotypes.
6 videos |
16m
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Overcoming Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
Ensuring a diverse, welcoming, and productive organization means overcoming biases. No matter who you are, you are prey to unconscious biases. To be part of a complex, diverse workplace, you must take steps to overcome them. In this course, you'll learn to recognize how superficial differences can contribute to bias and lead to prejudice and social stereotypes. You'll learn specific tactics for combatting unconscious bias and adopting an anti-bias approach. You'll also learn how to be an inclusive leader by using these tactics to overcome explicit and implicit bias across the organization and in the hiring process.
7 videos |
20m
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Bridging the Diversity Gap
Without a diverse workforce, organizations run the risk of viewing things from a very limited perspective. The organization provides the structure for operation, but it's the individuals within that organization who carry out the mission of the organization. To get the most innovative solutions from the individuals in your business, you need to create a workplace that embraces inclusion and avoids bias and stereotyping This course focuses on what diversity is and how to leverage the diversity within the organization. You'll also explore the barriers, such as unconscious bias, that must be overcome to create a diversified and inclusive working environment.
7 videos |
17m
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Your Role in Workplace Diversity
To understand and appreciate diversity in the workplace, you must develop a deep understanding of yourself, as well as any unconscious bias you may have. Your ability to use a variety of strategies to effectively deal with diverse situations is very important. Equally important is the ability to share these effective strategies openly and leverage the diversity that exists within an inclusive organization. In this course, you'll explore how to become aware of your attitudes toward diversity, understand the source of any cultural bias you may have, and increase your acceptance of diverse cultures, people, and ideas. You'll also discover how to become an advocate for diversity and inclusion within the workplace.
8 videos |
21m
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Leading Inclusively Leadercamp: Session Replay
This is a recorded replay of the Leading Incuslively Live session that ran on June 24th at 10 AM ET led by La'Wana Harris, author of Diversity Beyond Lip Service: A Coaching Guide for Challenging Bias, "Leading Inclusively" will provide guidance and a safe discussion forum to start you on the journey toward inclusive leadership. You will also gain insights and tools to help you and your organization value and leverage the unique strengths and talents of all individuals.
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1h 1m
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Embracing Allyship Leadercamp: Session Replay
This is a recorded replay of the Embracing Allyship Leadercamp Live session that ran on August 25th at 10 AM ET led by La'Wana Harris, author of Diversity Beyond Lip Service: A Coaching Guide for Challenging Bias. The Embracing Allyship Leadercamp will illuminate how embracing your role as an ally can help you achieve significant and lasting change - as an individual, a team member, and a leader in your organization.
1 video |
1h
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Understanding Bias in Data Bootcamp: Session 1 Replay
This is a recorded Replay of the Understanding Bias in Data Live session that ran on September 29th at 11 AM ET. In this session, Dr Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University presents her keynote.
3 videos |
1h 22m
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Acting with Diplomacy and Tact
People who communicate with diplomacy and tact are able to inspire confidence. Communicating a difficult message can be very challenging, so preparation is key to a successful outcome. In this course, you'll learn about developing a diplomatic approach to difficult conversations. You'll learn how to avoid meltdowns, apologize, develop empathy, and remove personal biases.
8 videos |
24m
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Leadership Insights on Developing Women Leaders
Barriers to leadership often affect women more than men. With these insights on likability versus competence, biases that favor males, networking, and self-limiting mindsets, women can overcome external and internal barriers to advancement.
7 videos |
24m
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Mayo Clinic COVID-19: Expert Insights and Strategies - Online CME Course: Pulling Back the Sheets: Deep Inequities Exposed by the COVID-19 Pandemic
This segment discusses non-clinical factors that impact the mortality rates among members of racial and ethnic minority communities and the benefits of collecting and reporting COVID-19 data by gender and ethnicity. (Published 07/29/2020)
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56m
Mayo Clinic COVID-19: Expert Insights and Strategies - Online CME Course: At the Heart of the Pandemic: Where COVID-19 Meets Racism
This segment discusses non-clinical factors that impact the mortality rates among members of racial and ethnic minority communities and the benefits of collecting and reporting COVID-19 data by gender and ethnicity. (Published 07/29/2020)
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How Culture Impacts Communication
With so much business now happening on a global scale, cross-cultural communication is more important than ever before. Communication is always a challenge, and when diverse cultures interact, good communication can be even more challenging. To become a more efficient and effective communicator, you must acknowledge and respect cultural differences. In this course, you'll learn about the importance of taking culture and diversity into account in the workplace. You'll explore aspects of cultures that affect how people communicate across cultural boundaries. You'll also learn different considerations for speaking and writing across cultures.
7 videos |
20m
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Using Communication Strategies to Bridge Cultural Divides
It takes time to build working relationships with people from other cultures, but it only takes a second to alienate them by inappropriately crossing cultural boundaries. That's why building relationships across cultures is so important in the current global business context, where you have to share objectives and working space with people with diverse cultural backgrounds. In this course, you will learn about dealing effectively with cultural diversity to improve cross-cultural communication and build rapport. You'll also learn about the misunderstandings and behaviors related to a culture that can hinder good communication and ways to overcome them. Finally, you'll learn strategies for giving effective presentations to people from low- and high-context cultures.
8 videos |
22m
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BOOK SUMMARY
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in AmericaIn Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi presents a chronological account of racist ideas throughout history, tracing the roots of oppressive and separatist notions based on race back as far as ancient times. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
8m
By Ibram X. Kendi
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White Fragility: Why it's So Hard for White People to Talk About RacismIn White Fragility, author DiAngelo boldly explores how society can disrupt the destructive patterns of racism that go unnoticed by so many. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Robin DiAngelo
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The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the TableIn her book, The Memo, author Minda Harts directs attention to stark differences in the workplace experience when comparing women of color and their white counterparts, while providing actionable advice on how to navigate a corporate landscape still steeped in systemic racism. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
8m
By Minda Harts
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About RaceThrough her own experiences, as well as notable examples and topical points, author Reni Eddo-Lodge sheds light on how the social system is a disadvantage to some, including the role race plays in inciting fear, and how race impacts other social issues, like feminism. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
8m
By Reni Eddo-Lodge
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The 85% Niche: The Power of Women of All Colors, Latina, Black, and AsianThrough groundbreaking proprietary research, this concise, practical guide explores how cultural and ethnic differences shape the way women respond to life experiences as well as consider brands for future purchase decisions.
3h 40m
By Miriam Muléy
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Hidden Inequalities in the Workplace: A Guide to the Current Challenges, Issues and Business SolutionsAiming to understand work-related stigmas and offer tactful solutions, this unique book presents a critical framework for assessing whether organizational practice and function reinforces unseen potential differences amongst individuals in the workplace.
6h 15m
By Stefanos Nachmias (eds), Valerie Caven
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Erasing Institutional Bias: How to Create Systemic Change for Organizational InclusionAll humans have bias, and as a result, so do the institutions we build. This book offers concrete ways for anyone to work against institutional bias no matter what their position is in an organization.
2h 27m
By Ashley Diaz Mejias, Tiffany Jana
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Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop MicroaggressionsDiscussing the subtle, confusing, insidious things that people say and do that end up excluding people with marginalized identities, this book give simple and clear tools to identify and address such acts, offering scripts and action plans for everybody involved.
3h
By Michael Baran, Tiffany Jana
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Diversity in Coaching: Working with Gender, Culture, Race and Age, 2nd editionAuthored by an international team of 21 coaching professionals from 10 countries, this book provides guidance on understanding diversity and on adapting coaching styles and techniques to meet individual needs, local demands and cultural preferences.
6h 2m
By Jonathan Passmore (ed)
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Fish Can't See Water: How National Culture Can Make or Break Your Corporate StrategyUsing extensive case studies of successful global corporations, this book offers managers and leaders eight recommendations for recognizing those cultural factors that negatively impact performance, as well as those that can be harnessed to encourage superior performance.
5h 5m
By Kai Hammerich, Richard D. Lewis
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Bridging the Culture Gap: A Practical Guide to International Business Communication, 2nd EditionPacked with fascinating cases, cultural awareness scales, communication style tests and practical tips, this lively guide will help anyone - of any nationality - to become a better communicator.
3h 47m
By Chris Fox, Penny Carté
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Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Paradigms, Principles, & Practices, Second EditionProviding a comprehensive overview of the field from a constructivist perspective, this book attempts to reconcile the basic principles of intercultural communication with the rapidly evolving conditions in multicultural societies.
5h 4m
By Milton J. Bennett
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Say Anything to Anyone, Anywhere: 5 Keys To Successful Cross-Cultural CommunicationOffering quick, accessible examples and clear guidelines about how to create an understanding between cultures, this book teaches you to be proactive - not reactive - in your cross-cultural communications, and shows how to use simple rapport tools to create trust.
3h 32m
By Gayle Cotton
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Cultural Intelligence: Surviving and Thriving in the Global Village, Third EditionPresenting a universal set of techniques and people skills that will allow you to adapt quickly to, and thrive in, any cultural environment, this book will show you how to discard your own culturally based assumptions and pay careful attention to cues in cross-cultural situations.
3h 7m
By David C. Thomas, Kerr Inkson
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Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Leadership in Modern OrganizationsProviding essential practical tools and critical guidelines, this publication provides an interdisciplinary analysis of how organizations can responsibly embrace complex problem-solving and creative decision making.
10h 56m
By Anthony H. Normore (eds), Nancy D. Erbe
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Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We WantPart memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice is a sweeping and deeply personal exploration of how we can transform society through the choices we make every day.
7h 12m
By Ruha Benjamin
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Whole Person Promotion, Women, and the Post-Pandemic Era: Impact and Future OutlooksWhole Person Promotion, Women, and the Post-Pandemic Era: Impact and Future Outlooks provides the latest empirical research findings in the post-pandemic era with the household as the central unit of analysis.
5h 28m
By Julianna Faludi, Michelle Crosby
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Advancing DEI and Creating Inclusive Environments in the Online SpaceAdvancing DEI and Creating Inclusive Environments in the Online Space considers the process of creating a caring and inclusive teaching and learning environment in online postsecondary institutions by addressing key issues such as creating sites of collaboration and engagement, ensuring and proactively delivering resources and student support, and developing hallmarks of inclusivity to support online course design and faculty development.
8h 17m
By Nina M. McCune
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Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Women After the COVID-19 PandemicPromoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Women After the COVID-19 Pandemic provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the fields of diversity, equity, and inclusion impacting women's empowerment after the COVID-19 pandemic.
8h 3m
By Siham El-Kafafi
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Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination against ImmigrantsNative Bias challenges the premise of such regulations by making the case for a civic integration model, based on shared social ideas defining the concept and practice of citizenship.
5h 43m
By Donghyun Danny Choi, Mathias Poertner, Nicholas Sambanis
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Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic ChangeCreating justice-centered organizations is the next frontier in DEI. This book shows how to go beyond compliance to address harm, share power, and create equity.
5h 10m
By Mary-Frances Winters, The Winters Group Team
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Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter - A Fully Updated and Expanded EditionProvocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopher
5h 58m
By Peter Singer
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Be An Inclusion Ally: The ABCs of LGBTQ+In Be An Inclusion Ally, author Lisa Koenecke helps us become LGBTQ+ literate by methodically unpacking in alphabetical order what it means to be(come) a supportive LGBTQ+ ally. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Lisa Koenecke
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The Opportunity Index: A Solution-Based Framework to Dismantle the Racial Wealth GapA bold and fresh perspective unravelling the economics of racial inequality
3h 42m
By Gavin Lewis
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The Visibility Mindset: How Asian American Leaders Create Opportunities and Push Past BarriersExplore the challenges faced by Asian professionals and how to overcome them.
2h 47m
By Bernice M. Chao, Jessalin Lam
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Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and JusticeIn Say the Right Thing, authors Yoshino and Glasgow share their views on how to talk about social identity, and issues of belonging and inclusion with awareness, care, and compassion. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
8m
By David Glasgow, Kenji Yoshino
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth GapWhen the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth and 150 years later, that number has barely budged. This audio edition pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap.
15h 10m 52s
By Mehrsa Baradaran
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Erasing Institutional Bias: How to Create Systemic Change for Organizational InclusionThis audio edition is designed to raise awareness about imbalances and help us hold ourselves accountable for creating a world that works for everyone.
4h 29m 17s
By Ashley Diaz Mejias, Tiffany Jana
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Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us ApartThis audio edition explores how our human need to belong is the driving force for why we are living in a world so extremely divided.
8h 47m 42s
By Howard J. Ross, JonRobert Tartaglione
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The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black WomenIn this audio edition, three powerful African-American female executives celebrate their gender and heritage as they share their secrets for success in this effective guide for businesswomen.
4h 13m 30s
By Elaine Brown, Marsha Haygood, Rhonda McLean
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Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael BrownThis audio revelatory memoir by the mother of Michael Brown, the African American teenager killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent history. With brutal honesty, McSpadden brings us inside her experiences.
10h 29m 13s
By Lezley McSpadden
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black HomeownershipThis audio edition uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned.
12h 29m 58s
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil RightsEnlivened by Sorin's personal history, this audio edition opens an entirely new view onto the African American experience, and shows why travel was so central to the Civil Rights movement. Read by the Author.
9h 8m 55s
By Gretchen Sorin
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaThis audio edition makes clear that it was de jure segregation - the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments - that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
9h 32m 43s
By Richard Rothstein
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A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and TrumpThis audio edition tells the story of the creation of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
12h 49m 31s
By Lonnie G. Bunch III
Audiobook
Black STILL Matters in Marketing: Why Increasing Your Cultural IQ about Black America is Critical to Your Business and Your BrandIn this audio edition, the author draws on her wealth of experience and on-going research and consulting on the African American market to share her thoughtful insights on this influential segment.
6h 40m 38s
By Pepper Miller
Audiobook
Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop MicroaggressionsThis audio edition helps individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all employees can feel a sense of belonging in their workplace.
5h 21m 3s
By Michael Baran, Tiffany Jana
Audiobook
So You Want to Talk about RaceThis audio edition is a current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that listeners of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide.
7h 41m 55s
By Ijeoma Oluo
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a MovementIn this audio edition of newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.
5h 47m 30s
By Angela Y. Davis
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America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New AmericaThis audio edition offers a prophetic and deeply personal call to action in overcoming the racism so ingrained in American society.
10h 10m 2s
By Jim Wallis
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All the Dreams We've Dreamed: A Story of Hoops and Handguns on Chicago's West SideThis audio edition is a true story of courage, endurance, and friendship in one of America's most violent neighborhoods.
8h 39m 1s
By Rus Bradburd
Audiobook
White like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial PassingThis audio edition tells a unique and fascinating story of coming to terms with oneself and breaks down barriers.
9h 57m 31s
By Gail Lukasik PhD
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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White SupremacyIn this audio edition, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries, letters, and official communications to create a gripping and compelling narrative that weaves together individual stories of hate and fear and brutality.
11h 26m 35s
By David Zucchino
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black AmericaThis audio edition provides an original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law.
8h 39m 44s
By James Forman Jr.
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Negroland: A MemoirIncendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac - here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture. Margo Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions. This audiobook is a triumphant paean to the grace of perseverance.
7h 59m 46s
By Margo Jefferson
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good AncestorThis audio edition teaches listeners how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change.
5h 19m 31s
By Layla F. Saad
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Black Card: A NovelWith dark humor, this audio edition is an uncompromising examination of American identity. In an effort to be "black enough", a mixed-race punk rock musician indulges his own stereotypical views of African American life by doing what his white bandmates call "black stuff".
6h 19m 18s
By Chris L. Terry
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary EditionThis audio edition offers a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.
16h 56m 59s
By Michelle Alexander
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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First CenturyThis groundbreaking audio edition examines how the myth of race as a biological concept continues to undermine a just society and promote inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era. The Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race.
14h 54m 4s
By Dorothy Roberts
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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in AmericaEduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed audio edition of "Racism Without Racists" documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for - and ultimately justify - racial inequalities.
11h 52m 31s
By Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
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Bridging the Culture Gap: A Practical Guide to International Business CommunicationBridging the Culture Gap will help you become a better communicator by examining the cultural differences that exist in the intricate world economy in which we operate. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
20m 32s
By Chris Fox, Penny Carté
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Implosion: What the Internet has Really Done to Culture and CommunicationsImplosion explores the effects that worldwide dependence on the internet has on us and how the addiction is changing culture and the ways we communicate. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
18m 8s
By Andy Law
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The Multicultural Mind: Unleashing the Hidden Force for Innovation in Your OrganizationThis audio edition examines how to establish the organizational conditions under which multiculturals can flourish and shows how even the most monocultural among us can gain the advantages of a multicultural mind.
3h 57m 14s
By David C. Thomas
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Culture Crossing: Discover the Key to Making Successful Connections in the New Global EraThis audio edition offers an essential primer for improving all your interactions with people from any background.
5h 10m 25s
By Michael Landers
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Say Anything to Anyone, Anywhere: 5 Keys to Successful Cross-Cultural CommunicationIn this audio edition, author Gayle Cotton offers five simple guidelines to successful selling, negotiating, and managing multiculturally.
8h 19m 56s
By Gayle Cotton
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Leading With Cultural Intelligence: The Real Secret to Success, Second EditionThis audio edition details a powerful, four-step model for becoming more adept at managing across cultures.
7h 52m 29s
By David Livermore
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The Necessary Journey: Making Real Progress on Equity and InclusionThe road to an inclusive workplace is a difficult one, but you can traverse it, and there's help along the way. Start here with stories of companies making the necessary journey, including Slack, PwC, Best Buy, Denny's, and many others.
6h 44m 35s
By Ella F. Washington
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Shared Sisterhood: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at WorkBias persists in organizations and society. Despite efforts that have been made in the last few decades, gender and racioethnic equity still hasn't been achieved.
7h 5m 31s
By Beth A. Livingston, Tina Opie
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Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn'tIn an authoritative, data-driven account, two of the world's leading management experts challenge dominant approaches to increasing workplace diversity and provide a comprehensive account of what really works.
7h 37m 41s
By Alexandra Kalev, Frank Dobbin
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The Visibility Mindset: How Asian American Leaders Create Opportunities and Push Past BarriersIn The Visibility Mindset: How Asian American Leaders Create Opportunities and Push Past Barriers, Chao and Lam deliver an engaging and enlightening treatment of how Asian American professional leaders have powered through the obstacles in their way.
5h 53m 18s
By Bernice M. Chao, Jessalin Lam
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The Power of Potential: How a Nontraditional Workforce Can Lead You to Run Your Business BetterTom D'Eri started Rising Tide Car Wash with his father John as a way to find meaningful employment for people with autism like his brother, Andrew. What the employees taught Tom about running a business will astound us all.
5h 20m 15s
By Thomas D'Eri
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Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and DisabilityIn these deeply personal, fiery essays, Pryal tells her story of transformation that began the moment she chose to publicly disclose her own mental illness and leave her career in higher education to begin fighting for a better world for people with psychiatric disabilities.
4h 42m
By Katie Rose Guest Pyral
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Reconstructing Inclusion: Making DEI Accessible, Actionable, and SustainableIn Reconstructing Inclusion, Amri Johnson, CEO of Inclusion Wins, explores why that reactionary stance persists and provides a framework for designing a systematic approach that empowers all stakeholders in these efforts-everyone-to thrive.
8h 32m 39s
By Amri B. Johnson
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Culture Rules: The Leader's Guide to Creating the Ultimate Competitive AdvantageCulture Rules is a clarion call for leaders around the world. The pandemic has magnified the essential role that culture plays in an organization's health, vitality, and sustainability-some passed the test with flying colors while others are seeing with fresh eyes, deeply rooted issues and challenges within their culture.
7h 37m 24s
By Mark Miller
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The Opportunity Index: A Solution-Based Framework to Dismantle the Racial Wealth GapIn The Opportunity Index, BlackRock Managing Director and co-founder of the #Talkaboutblack movement, Gavin Lewis, skillfully plots the origins of the racial wealth gap and its impact on the inequalities faced by the Black community today.
6h 16m 50s
By Gavin Lewis
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Confronting Our Freedom: Leading a Culture of Chosen Accountability and BelongingIn Confronting Our Freedom, a team of dedicated leadership coaches delivers an exciting and engaging new take on management and leadership.
5h 11m 22s
By Peter Block, Peter Koestenbaum
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Dear White Woman, Please Come Home: Hand Me Your Bias, and I'll Show You Our ConnectionDear White Woman, Please Come Home is Kimberlee Yolanda Williams's invitation to white women longing for authentic friendship with Black and brown women, the kind of friendship with no place for secrets, the kind of relationship where truth-telling is welcome, even when it hurts.
3h 57m 53s
By Kimberlee Yolanda Williams
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Data-Driven DEI: The Tools and Metrics You Need to Measure, Analyze, and Improve Diversity, Equity, and InclusionIn Data-Driven DEI: The Tools and Metrics You Need to Measure, Analyze, and Improve Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Dr. Randal Pinkett, a renowned diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) thought leader delivers a practical and evidence-based blueprint to achieving lasting impact with your DEI initiatives.
8h 50m 42s
By Randal Pinkett
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Rapid Mass Engagement: Driving Continuous Improvement through Employee Culture CreationProviding everything you need to boost individual, team, and organizational performance, Rapid Mass Engagement delivers a new, more effective approach to creating a solid corporate culture that fuels long-term business success.
7h 54m 11s
By Frank Devine
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Thriving in a Male-Dominated WorkplaceThriving in a Male-Dominated Workplace provides the advice you need to ensure your professional growth in roles and industries that have traditionally been filled by and controlled by men.
4h 5m 45s
By Harvard Business Review
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of PlantsAn inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing.
16h 44m
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic ChangeCreating justice-centered organizations is the next frontier in DEI. This book shows how to go beyond compliance to address harm, share power, and create equity.
10h 41m 32s
By Mary-Frances Winters, The Winters Group Team
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DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It RightThe definitive comprehensive and foundational text for critically analyzing and applying actionable DEI techniques and strategies, written by one of LinkedIn's most popular experts on DEI.
8h 49m 32s
By Lily Zheng
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Be An Inclusion Ally: The ABCs of LGBTQ+In Be An Inclusion Ally, author Lisa Koenecke helps us become LGBTQ+ literate by methodically unpacking in alphabetical order what it means to be(come) a supportive LGBTQ+ ally. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
14m 35s
By Lisa Koenecke
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The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in WomenChanging how systems work-and who they work for-isn't for the faint of heart. When she launched the world's first stock exchange for social enterprises, Durreen Shahnaz started more than a new financial system; she sparked a movement.
8h 7m 27s
By Durreen Shahnaz
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The New Black Woman: Loves Herself, Has Boundaries, and Heals EverydayMarita Golden, a prominent interviewee of Oprah Winfrey, wrote this mental and physical health guide for women to learn who they are, to set healthy boundaries, and to jump into health related fitness practices to balance out their daily lives.
2h 29s
By Marita Golden
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Histories of Racial CapitalismHistories of Racial Capitalism brings together for the first time distinguished and rising scholars to consider the utility of the concept of racial capitalism across historical settings.
9h 4m 55s
By Destin Jenkins, Justin Leroy
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Ensuring a diverse workplace requires actively participating in and advocating for DEI supports can help foster an inclusive environment. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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