As Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) leaders, you’re at the forefront of creating meaningful change within your organization. You’re passionate about fostering a culture that prioritizes equity, belonging, and diversity, but the path to that vision isn’t always clear. You juggle competing prior...

What’s Really Driving Your Team?

Many organizations believe they understand their team culture. They highlight mission statements, core values, and host team-building exercises. But beneath those visible efforts lie hidden frameworks—unspoken norms, traditions, and assumptions that quietly dictate ...

Dear Equity Warriors,

In a world where words can be so polarizing and divisive, learning the skills for inclusive communication is more important than ever. From listening to understanding different perspectives, these skills enable us to connect with one another in a way that is both productive an...

Children and making a positive impact on their well-being is the true joy of teaching.

With that said, the life of an educator was hard prior to 2020. Already overworked and underpaid, a rise in social injustices, racial tension, and the global pandemic made the role almost impossible. It became...

To Whom It May Concern,

I was four years old when it happened. It was Black History Month. The month was filled with history lessons to teach children about inequality.

My daycare decided to put on a play about Rosa Parks in honor of it. Being one of the few Black girls, I was chosen to play the r...

We are a country built on the idea that to be successful you must “pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” But for far too long, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) have disproportionately been the ones pulling themselves up. For generations, they’ve pulled themselves up against cultural an...

This month, we are excited to highlight Marie Michael, the National Society of Black Engineers, and Douglass Austin for the inspiring work they do as Equity Warriors. 

Marie Michael -- Coach, Facilitator, Equity and Inclusion Practitioner at Embodied Coaching & Consulting , LLC

Marie Michael has o...

I’ve seen it firsthand–a company with good intentions to make their employees feel a sense of inclusion and belonging forms a team or hires outside consultants to “fix” the problems with equity in their company. Six months into the project, rather than rocketing into liberating the people they’re tr...

Sometimes a new DEI initiative feels a lot like a 1500-piece puzzle scattered across your table with no reference image and missing pieces that you aren’t even aware are missing. No matter how successful you’ve been at completing puzzles in the past, you’re unable to accomplish this new goal.

Let m...

Diversity, equity, and inclusion work is different than any other work you’ll find in the world of business. It’s head work. It’s heart work. And most of all, it’s hard work. 

We’re juggling so many audiences–the C-Suite who want to quell complaints and improve the bottom line, employees of color w...

It’s common for a CEO who is only concerned with optics to sign off on a DEI budget and plan, only for DEI professionals to find themselves stuck on a moving sidewalk of never ending assessment and planning. When that C-Suite isn’t fully engaged and invested in the process, DEI initiatives are bound...

I truly believe that where much is given, much is expected. Those of us who feel called to DEI work are passionate and gifted Equity Warriors with Big Hairy Audacious Goals for the woefully imperfect world that we live in. Even if no one else is holding us accountable to these goals, we feel an inhe...

You’ve seen them around the office (or at least on a virtual call). They have bags under their eyes, coffee always in hand, and let out a deep sigh whenever someone asks how they’re doing. Your poor Chief Diversity Officer. 

You don’t remember them being like this when they started.… They were kind...