Organizational culture offers a framework that allows a closer examination of how culture shows up in organizations. It also provides potential next steps for how we might foster a stronger, healthier organizational culture.
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Want to Create Psychological Safety? We Need to Talk About Assimilation First.
We seem to love buzzwords and yet can often lose sight of the deeper meaning. These words or phrases allow us to talk about an issue while managing to skirt…
Read More Our Lasting Legacies: From Descendancy to Ancestry
There is a constant but low murmur of dissociation coming from growing numbers of “well-intentioned” people as they explore the idea of inclusion. Framed as, “This doesn’t have anything to…
Read More You Can’t Strategize Your Way Out of an “Ism.”
You can’t strategize your way out of systemic racism, sexism, ageism, or any other “ism.” It’s 2022, and many organizations are still missing the mark on diversity, equity, and inclusion.…
Read More On Questioning Curiosity
I am struck at this moment by the volume of polarization sweeping our nation. A concerted effort to shelter and protect our views, to limit proximity to anything that might…
Read More Danielle Marshall at Ignite Howard County
On October 25, 2021 Ignite Howard County #6 was live at Jailbreak Brewing Company in Laurel, MD. Eleven speakers were featured in this exciting evening of community and collaboration, where…
Read More Juneteenth: Should I Be Celebrating?
I am in a deeply complicated space with the announcement of Juneteenth as a federal holiday. I am still processing all that is showing up. At once I am holding…
Read More Assimilation Not Required
I grew up in NYC, one of the most diverse cities in the U.S. My neighbors and classmates were Black, White, Latino, Asian, new immigrants and original inhabitants, Jewish and…
Read More Reimagining Racial Equity: A Look Back on 2020
With so many businesses and organizations engaged in anti-racist conversations, what is your business doing to move the needle? How are you creating more access, cultivating racial equity, and transforming…
Read More Symbolic Gestures or Meaningful Change
We are now just over a month past the start of the uprising prompted by George Floyd’s death, and as with many movements we are seeing the splintering off of…
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