Experiment with the Voice Method. Assemble Diverse Interview Panels. Ask Value-based Questions. Solicit Input from Frontline Employees. Keep Diversity Top of Mind for Final Hiring Decision. “Get Loud.” For details on each practice, download for free Chapter 10: Hiring Made Visible: Individual Decisions, Institutional Changes.

There are more than 40 additional resources in The Business of Race. Most of them are free: Chapter 1 Book: Blueprint for a Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators or Simply Change the World, by Srdja Popovic. Book/Play: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, by actor […]

We are huge fans of short films. They are powerful distillations of the human condition. As Learning and Development practitioners, we find them to be transformative tools, especially when viewed together as a team or organization. Here is a thought-provoking short film by writer-director Stephen Takashima. Watch it alone. Watch it together. Either way, be […]

We discovered SNL’s skit on YouTube. We watched a few times, howled with laughter each time then thought: the humor and cultural observation would make it a non-threatening but thought-provoking conversation starter on race. Watch it alone. Watch it with your team. Either way, be sure to reflect on or discuss the questions below. Reflection […]

The Business Case: Advancing Workplace Racial Equity Why is racial diversity good for business as our subtitle claims? Decades of research in diversity in general such as gender, sexual orientation, religion, and thinking styles, has found that organizations with more diversity, outperform less diverse organizations on four key measures: profit, innovation, productivity, and attracting and […]

For many people the workplace is the first place, and it may be the only place, where they interact with other people who are different from them – racially, ethnically, religion. We, the coauthors, met in the workplace more than two decades ago. It is likely our paths never would have crossed otherwise. The second […]

Thinking About How You Think Change readiness, cultural curiosity, empathy, and growth mindset— all skills that will facilitate productive race talk and race work. And there’s one more muscle you’ll want to develop: the ability to think about how you think. SPECTRUM THINKINGWorkplaces do not operate in a dynamic of polarized extremes: Black or White, […]

An Open Letter to ABC News President Kim Godwin regarding her decision to suspend The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg.