Podcast Episode 008, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging: What’s the Difference and What Difference Do They Make
Episode Summary:
In this episode, Gloria Feldt shares her experiences and thoughts about the importance of diversity, both gender and ethnic, in the workplace. She also discusses solutions and successes used by a variety of businesses and thought leaders, including the use of the word ‘belonging’ over ‘tolerance.’
Gloria discusses the connection between racism and sexism, and cites research that has found diversity improves the bottom line. She shares why many companies say they value diversity, though they execute on it with greater or lesser success, depending on several factors.
As a culture, if we see diversity as a plus, it is a plus. If we see it as a divide, it will divide us, with potentially disastrous consequences. Listen to this episode and connect with Gloria on social media to share your thoughts on this important topic.
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Resources
- Corporate Best Practices for Diversity and Gender Parity Take The Lead Solutions Tipsheet
- Take The Lead This Week Newsletter
- Take The Lead Leadership Tools to Help Your Company Develop and Retain Female Leadership at early career, midcareer, or executive level
- The Core 9 Leadership Power Tools Program
Articles and websites cited
- Fast Company: How Hiding Your True Self at Work Can Hurt Your Career
- The New York Time: What Makes an American?
- The New York Times: A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women
- Forbes: A Study Finds That Diverse Companies Produce 19% More Revenue
- Bloomberg: The White-Male Mentorship Premium
- Hootology: Market Research & Consumer Insights
- Paradigm For Parity
- The Movement Blog: The Diversity Divide: How Two Words Clash and so Do the Worlds They Represent
Social Links
Take The Lead’s Website
https://www.taketheleadwomen.com
Quotes / Tweetables
As the nation reels from mass shootings and fears for future ones, the evidence mounts that misogyny runs deep in the veins of those who perpetrate such acts. And in my experience, racism and sexism are joined at the head. Where you find one, you usually find the other.
— Gloria FeldtThe explicit and implicit bias I experienced shaped much of my behavior. My response was to ‘cover,’ taking on the habits of those around me. As do many women and minorities in the workforce every day, still.
— Gloria FeldtFar from being a zero-sum game, diversity enriches as it expands knowledge, innovation, and the mental agility to solve complex problems.
— Gloria FeldtLeaders who don’t lead diverse lives can’t adequately build and lead diverse teams.
— Rosalind HudnellI’m betting on the good will of the majority to embrace diversity if for no other reason than we need to realize we are all ‘other’ in some way.
— Gloria Feldt
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” and Glamour chose her as a “Woman of the Year.”
As co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a leading women’s leadership nonprofit, her mission is to achieve gender parity by 2025 through innovative training programs, workshops, a groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change The World immersive, online courses, a free weekly newsletter, and events including a monthly Virtual Happy Hour program and a Take The Lead Day symposium that reached over 400,000 women globally in 2017.
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