A Scottish colleague asked us, “Why is everything being blamed on DEI and Black people?” Our answer: race has always been a tool of United States politics. This skin-color caste system was first developed in the colonies and then globally marketed to rationalize and justify intentional deep divisions in a society that proclaimed its belief […]

We are bombarded by information on our favorite channels, influencers or newsfeed. How discerning are you? And when you hear something that sounds “off,” do you go digging to find the facts? CNN is a popular news source for many business people. In August of this year, TV fitness personality Jillian Michaels appeared on a […]

At the recommendation of Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The 1619 Project, we carry this slim, 126-page, pocket-sized book with us at all times. We recommend the time is now for Americans who are concerned about the hostile position that the office of the President of the United States in 2025 has taken against its citizens, […]

We took the Antiracist Style Indicator (ASI) when we first began writing The Business of Race in June 2020. We didn’t know what we didn’t know. So we took a first step and then another step. Then another. Shortly into our journey, those steps led us to the ASI. And learning about redlining. The origins […]

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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 […]

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?

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.

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 […]