Diversity Goes to Work

Mar 11 2024
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Diversity Goes to Work is a podcast where we center the humanity behind our diversity, equity, and inclusion work. Each episode provides a behind the scenes look at the day-to-day experiences that shape and guide DEI work in the organizational sphere. Guests from all walks of life share openly and honestly about the challenges, opportunities, and potentials of effective DEI work, giving insight based on their own personal and professional experiences.

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57 Nick Jonsson - Executive Loneliness: A Mental Health Conversation

Mar 11 2024 33 mins  
The adage says “It’s lonely at the top.” And in today’s fast-paced world, a conversation around mental health and wellness seems more crucial than ever before - especially in the workplace. But when we peel back the layers of corporate suits and titles, we uncover a less talked about issue, which is executive loneliness. We talk a lot about climbing the corporate ladder, bu

56 Kamini Wood - Tossing Aside Self-Limiting Beliefs

Feb 25 2024 29 mins  
Today we’re excited to welcome Kamini Wood. Kamini is a Certified Life Coach on a mission to empower high achievers. With over 20 years of experience, and as a mother of high-achieving young adults, Kamini understands feeling overwhelmed by expectations. All of those realities we talk about but don’t ever REALLY talk about or explore deeply - bandwidth, burnout, imposter syndro

55 Carol Parker Walsh - Normalize Messy: Doing The Real Work

Feb 11 2024 39 mins  
Today we welcome Dr. Carol Parker Walsh, an award-winning executive coach, keynote speaker, and author. As founder of Carol Parker Walsh Consulting, she helps organizations unlock innovations by providing coaching, training, and foresight strategy. She leverages her extensive experiences as an attorney, professor, and social scientist to help clients amplify excellence. Carol is a

54 Toby Mildon - Beyond Box-Checking: Inclusive Growth

Jan 28 2024 23 mins  
Today on the show we welcome Toby Mildon. Toby is a diversity and inclusion architect and found of Mildon; a consultancy and advisory business. He works with business to re-engineer entire processes and systems to minimize the impact of bias and build cultures of inclusion. Prior to setting up his businesses, Toby worked as an in-house diversity and inclusion manager at the BBC and

53 Ti’Juana Gholson - Black.Female.Entrepreneur.

Jan 14 2024 42 mins  
Our guest today - Ti’Juana Gholson - is a member of the Maximize Life Coaching and Mentoring team and a demonstrational live coach specializing in program development, strategic and financial planning, as well as business structuring. As a serial entrepreneur herself, Ti’Juana provides everyday mentorship - mentorship for the here and now - and coaching to small business owners

52 Linda Ridley - Management's Legacy of Dehumanization: Tracing Modern Business Practices to Chattel Slavery

Dec 17 2023 42 mins  
Today’s guest is Linda Ridley. Linda has a background in corporate and investment banking with Wachovia and has served as the CEO of Edgar J. Ridley and Associates since 2009. She’s also an academic, a faculty lecturer and professor at Hostos Community College and Graduate School in New York City. She trains managers worldwide to examine their behaviors by emphasizing the negat

51 Marika Messager - Conscious DEI Leadership

Dec 03 2023 32 mins  
Here at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business, we spend a lot of time grappling with the question of: What does it mean to produce business graduates who make a broader societal impact? What does it mean to be about business for the greater social good? And how do you do that? Today’s guest has a few ideas and brings a great research-oriented perspective to this conversation. S

50 Dr. Elias Zerhouni - From an Algerian Village to Director of the NIH: One Immigrant’s Leadership Story

Nov 20 2023 40 mins  
Host Phil Wagner fills in for Ken White on this special crossover episode of Leadership & Business and Diversity Goes to Work. Our guest today is Dr. Elias Zerhouni, who has had an incredibly inspiring story of pursuing the American dream while never forgetting his roots. Born in a small village in Algeria, he came to America in his 20s with only a few dollars to his name. Yet thro

49 Heather Hansen - “But what about my accent?”

Nov 19 2023 37 mins  
As our workplaces grow increasingly global and interconnected, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment to re-evaluate one of the most potent, yet over-looked aspects of DEI: Language and human communication. We often hear that language is power, but today we’re going to be looking at language as a tool. A tool of empowerment. Our guest argues that language is more than just a means

48 Lamecia Butler - Inclusive and Impactful Supply Chains

Nov 05 2023 37 mins  
Today, host Phil Wagner is joined by Lamecia Butler, who has extensive experience in the corporate and non-profit sectors where she has led communication, marketing, community and supplier diversity efforts for well-known brands: Meta, Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund, Super Bowl 50, Super Bowl LI, American Express and more. She’s worked with countless business professionals and entr