Gina Greenlee, Margaret H. Greenberg
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June 30, 2022
Individual Psychological Safety for Organizational Race Work
Readiness is Foundational After studying 30,000 smokers who successfully kicked the habit, University of Rhode Island’s psychology professor Dr. James Prochaska developed a model for how people make positive, lasting changes in their lives. One of his most significant findings is that people wanting to make a change (“I will quit smoking tomorrow”) often rush […]
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Gina Greenlee, Margaret H. Greenberg
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June 29, 2022
How L&D Can Advance Workplace Racial Equity
How do we learn how to learn? How do we think about how we think? And how does knowing how we learn and think advance workplace racial equity?
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Gina Greenlee, Margaret H. Greenberg
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June 3, 2022
Yes, You Can Prototype Racial Equity Metrics
As of March 2022, 85 S&P 100 companies now disclose, or have committed to disclose, their EEO-1 Report – the group of federally required documents that provide granular detail about the number of Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native and White men and women at every level of a company. Bloomberg reports that two large companies – […]
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Gina Greenlee, Margaret H. Greenberg
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May 24, 2022
Workplace Racial Equity: The Business Case
In this 20-minute video we share the book's origin story, our business case, key measures and how to stay connected to this work.
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Gina Greenlee, Margaret H. Greenberg
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May 19, 2022
Is Your Company Race-tentative?
Readiness for change is a core muscle individuals must flex or build as part of their own race journey. Organizations must do the same.
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Gina Greenlee, Margaret H. Greenberg
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May 17, 2022
Shared Context: The Chinese Exclusion Act
As organizational development consultants we know how failing to name what needs naming derails any business endeavor. That’s a certain outcome if euphemisms are applied to race talk and race work. In your business spaces we encourage you to use direct, constructive language to name what must be named, without shaming or blaming. Shared context […]
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Gina Greenlee, Margaret H. Greenberg
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May 13, 2022
“Societal leadership is Now a Core Function of Business…”
…says Edelman, a privately held communications firm with 60 offices around the globe. Every year since 2000 Edelman has conducted a trust and credibility survey. For the 2022 survey they interviewed 38,000 respondents across 28 countries and publish the findings in a report called The Edelman Trust Barometer.
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Gina Greenlee, Margaret H. Greenberg
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May 6, 2022
Engaging Truthfully with Our Shared History
How often have we stumbled our way through a new project with cross-functional team members who use their own siloed jargon or have no context for what has come before? In business, when developing a new product, implementing new systems, or creating alignment around a marketing or investment strategy, you will get nowhere without a […]
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Gina Greenlee, Margaret H. Greenberg
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April 29, 2022
Investors Are Putting Their Money Where Your Press Release Is
May 25, 2020. In the days and weeks after the death of George Floyd, hundreds of US-based companies hung shingles of solidarity with the Black community. Many pledged millions of dollars to racial justice organizations. Awareness is a good start. And “millions” reads well in press releases. However, action and accountability – twin engines that […]
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