Posts Tagged ‘inclusion’
How to Unlock Potential: The Key to Thriving Business Success
Issue 2837 — February 3, 2025 You are incredibly, beautifully diverse. Think about it. A friend once observed to me that we are all made up of many tribes, each of which brings a piece of our identity to life. How many tribes do you belong to? What characteristics of yourself do you identify with? I…
Read MorePower Up: Igniting the Intentional Leader for DEI
Issue 166 — April 19, 2021
Did you ever have an idea and after some months it actually happens? Were you surprised? Excited? So sure it would come to pass that you weren’t worried about it even when it seemed like it would be impossible to achieve for whatever reason? All of the above?
Read MoreDo or DEI: Why Most Diversity Programs Fail and How To Succeed Instead
Issue 165 — April 5, 2021
“And in a world where everyone strives to act, think and look the same — being different is truly something to be proud of. That’s why I’m very proud to be autistic.” – Greta Thunberg.
Read MoreWhere Bluebirds Fly: How (and Why) We Build LGBTQ Pride in the Workplace and Beyond
Issue 97 — June 10, 2019 “Over the Rainbow,” the signature song from “The Wizard of Oz” movie, hasn’t been called the world’s greatest song for nothing. It captures the yearnings of whoever happens to be listening to it, in the same way that the rainbow flag, symbolizing the gay rights movement, captures the yearnings of all individuals…
Read MoreThe Sum – Meaning of the Week: Crossroads
“The first responsibility of leadership is the creation of meaning.”—Warren Bennis. Word of the week is CROSSROADS. As in a junction where two or more roads meet, offering the traveler multiple paths. As in an intersection, a point at which a crucial decision must be made that will have far reaching consequences (yep, I googled this…
Read More“Real” TED and TEDWomen: What’s Next?
I’ve been meaning to cross post CV Harquail’s excellent wrap up of the TEDWomen conference and the panel held in New York to discuss ways of fostering greater inclusion for women, people of color, and ideas that have not traditionally been chosen by the TED curators. Here is it is, full force and unedited.
My only additional comment is to suggest that the value of the controversy that emerged from TEDWomen has been significant. I hope that by raising consciousness we have opened up a path for gender parity in all such conferences and other “thought leader” events. Because after all, women do have at least half of the big ideas!
I’d love to know your thoughts now that the conference is over and we’ve all had some time to process it.
“Building on TED and the TEDWomen Conference: How Can We Make Conferences More Inclusive?”
We made a big start towards answering this question at our roundtable conversation after the TEDx636 NYC/ TEDWomen simulcast event. Our panel, organized by Natalia Oberti Noguera and sponsored by NYWSE, included Brittany McCandless (moderator), Adaora Udoji, Liza Sabater, Ritu Yadav, and me.
This post offers my personal, subjective summary of the conversation and the actions steps that were recommended. As my fellow participants, organizers, and allies share their perceptions of the event and ‘next steps’, I’ll share these ideas and resources too.
Although our panel was diverse in terms of age, expertise, professional domain, culture, and racioethnicity, we shared the same over-arching goal: inclusivity and diversity not only at conferences, but also in the larger ‘world of ideas’.
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