Join in as I interview Lawrence Alexander, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Carney, Sandoe & Associates about creating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs that actually work!

• You can find Lawrence at lawrence.alexander@carneysandoe.com
• You can find me at www.robinguidry.com

Here's what we talk about:

• Why it's so important that we focus on not just bringing diversity in but having a strategic method of going about doing so
• What the first step of creating a diversity, equity, and inclusion program should be
• Corrupted cultural inheritance
• The glass cliff - where diversity is hired, not supported, and falls off the cliff because companies are making short-term decisions for problems that really require long-tern care
• Affirmative action
• What to do about diversity if you live in one of the whitest states in America

Resources mentioned in the podcast:

• Kimberlé Crenshaw: @sandylocks
• DeGraffenreid v. GENERAL MOTORS ASSEMBLY
• The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
• On Privilege, Fraudulence, and Teaching As Learning: Selected Essays 1981-2019
• The White Privilege Conference

Keywords: Human resources, talent acquisition, recruiting, business, management, careers, employee engagement, employee retention, psychological safety, leadership, racism, antiracism, diversity, inclusion, belonging, dei, equity, equality, Robin Guidry, Jess Jacobs, Lawrence Alexander, Kimberlé Crenshaw

Join in as I interview Mary-Frances Winters, author of Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit, about how to have inclusive conversations that foster equity, empathy, and belonging across differences.

• You can find The Winters Group at https://www.wintersgroup.com/
• You can find me at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinguidry, www.robinguidry.com, or robinguidryrecruits@gmail.com
• If you're looking for a new job, you might also enjoy my book, Rise: A Feasible Guide for Job Hunters During Covid-Times and Beyond.
• Audio engineering by Jess Jacobs. You can find her at http://jessjacobswins.com/
• Episode artwork by Ryan Hirsch. You can find him at https://ryanglenhirsch.com/
• Self-education resources for white people mentioned in this episode:
  • Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters
  • Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy, and Belonging across Differences by Mary-Frances Winters 
  • We Can't Talk about That at Work!: How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics by Mary Frances-Winters
  • How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  • The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World by Desmond Tutu

Keywords: Human resources, talent acquisition, recruiting, business, management, careers, employee engagement, employee retention, psychological safety, leadership, racism, antiracism, diversity, inclusion, belonging, dei, Mary-Frances Winters, Robin Guidry, Jess Jacobs.

Dr. Lisa Desai is the Director of Behavioral Health Consulting at MindWise Innovations. Lisa will walk us through how to create psychologically safe environments for remote teams. For hybrid teams. For all teams. She'll help us understand the basics of psychological safety and then advance the conversation with a case study of how an executive achieved buy in up, down, and across his organization for the company to make this a priority.

You can find Lisa at: ldesai@mindwise.org

You can learn more about MindWise Innovations at: https://www.mindwise.org/

You can find me at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinguidry, www.robinguidry.com, or robinguidryrecruits@gmail.com

If you're looking for a new job, you might also enjoy my book, Rise: A Feasible Guide for Job Hunters During Covid-Times and Beyond.

Audio engineering by Jess Jacobs. You can find her at http://jessjacobswins.com/

Episode artwork by Ryan Hirsch. You can find him at https://ryanglenhirsch.com/

Keywords: Human resources, talent acquisition, recruiting, business, management, careers, employee engagement, employee retention, psychological safety, neurodiversity, anxiety, depression, addiction, suicide, construction, Lisa Desai, Robin Guidry, Jess Jacobs.