Resources

All people are created dependent—on each other, our earth, and its climate—endowed with the responsibility to maintain justice, liberty, and affiliation for all. We share these resources as we grapple with how to best lead ourselves and our organizations to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion for all and specifically address issues of racial bias and systemic racism.

Educate Yourself

Listen to podcasts and research systemic racism to learn more about the complex issues and how you can become part of the solution. Take time, explore, keep an open mind, and reflect on the world you are creating through your thoughts and deeds.

Understand key terminology and activities:

The protests are not about looting and rioting; it’s a global movement to bring awareness to systemic racism, police brutality, disproportionate murders of ethnicities in handcuffs while in police custody, and societal discriminations that impact the mental and emotional health for people of color.
Supporting the movement does not mean that a person condones violence against police, it means that ‘someone’ has an awareness of societal issues that are meaningful for humanity and people within society.
Defunding the Police does not mean eliminating all police forces, it supports divesting some funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-police forms of public safety, such as social services and other community resources. At its best, it will look at the issues our communities face through a holistic lens and determine which organizations are best able to address the issues and how to collaborate to improve outcomes for all members of the community such as providing mental health and rehabilitation support where this is a more effective approach than incarceration.
These are complex issues that will not be solved quickly. The current protests are shining a light on the opportunity and a mandate to do better.

Diversity And Inclusion Insights From IBM’s South Africa Experience (45 min podcast)

From Me, Too to Black Lives Matter, cultural changes worldwide prove that diversity and inclusion are critical for every organization. Roger Madison, Jr., shares his experiences as an African American in the tech industry – both as a trailblazer within IBM, and what he learned as a top sales executive in South Africa as he helped establish Big Blue’s presence there post-apartheid.

Forbes Article: Becoming An Ally For Inclusion (5 min read)

While building a truly equitable society will take time, each of us can take action to become an ally for inclusion. Our small steps can and will make an impact. Many of my colleagues and clients are asking what they can do. I developed some practical recommendations.

Columbus CEO article: To Diversity the “C-Suite” It Is Going To Take Work (5 min read)

Eric Douglas Keene, founder and president of Keene Advisory Group, says the basic infrastructure of the search world works against identification of diverse candidates, which his Chicago-based boutique firm has made its specialty.

Listen to the Podbean show – Implicit Bias – What You Don’t See Hurts You! (1-hour podcast)

Dr. Rebecca Heiss discusses how Implicit bias creates a disadvantage for leaders and their organizations. We would like listeners to have a clearer understanding of what implicit bias is and how it impacts each of us. As leaders, we need to understand and manage implicit biases because it impacts our hiring choices, promotion and succession decisions, and our policies. To hire and retain top talent, we need to remove bias from the decision-making process as much as possible.

Take Implicit Bias Assessment

Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition – thoughts, and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet.

Project Implicit was founded in 1998 by three scientists – Tony Greenwald (University of Washington), Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University), and Brian Nosek (University of Virginia). Project Implicit Mental Health launched in 2011, led by Bethany Teachman (University of Virginia) and Matt Nock (Harvard University). Project Implicit also provides consulting services, lectures, and workshops on implicit bias, diversity and inclusion, leadership, applying science to practice, and innovation. If you are interested in finding out more about these services, visit https://www.projectimplicit.net.

Listen to REPAIRING THE BROKEN RUNG: Overcoming Bias in the Leadership Pipeline (1-hour Podcast)

Organizations must rethink how they identify future leaders – today’s practices are often influenced by unconscious bias and result in unintentional discrimination, leaving potentially more capable talent behind. If organizations fix the broken rung, people will be promoted based on merit, not gender or race, and diversity will be enhanced. Martin Lanik joins Maureen to discuss the comprehensive study of fairness in how organizations prepare the next generation of leaders.

Listen to Podbean show – Winning In The Face of Adversity: Overcoming Challenge with Grace. (1-hour podcast)

In a time when people are sharing more of their struggles, we talk to Congress Woman Beatty and Doug McCollough about their struggle and, more importantly, how they navigated those struggles so that she could make their most significant impact on the world. Congresswoman Beatty not only overcame, but she also changed the people’s view of what it was to be a successful black woman, and she mentored women to make sure the pipeline behind her was strong. The country was better because of all facets of her service! She talks about how helping women succeed helps America succeed. She serves as a role model for inclusion globally by serving with grace and decorum! Doug shares how his focus on inclusion is expanding the field of employees working in technology in central Ohio. Through his board work as well as his work as CIO, he is creating a pipeline that allows unemployed people to get trained and find technology jobs. He is helping build the system that will close this gap long term!

Listen to Increasing Inclusion To Drive Results and Build a Better World (1-hour radio show)

Troy Mosley discussed his newly released book: Unwritten Truce: The Armed Forces and American Social Justice. Inclusion is an excellent organizational practice. The global market is diverse. Having a diverse workforce is a strategic advantage because it provides a greater ability to understand various segments of their consumer base and develop products and services that will better resonate with these segments, therefore, driving better results and higher impact. In for-profit businesses – it drives higher and more sustainable profits. Troy talks about his journey as a man of African American heritage and his recommendations to increase inclusion and results. In addition to his story, Troy and Maureen discuss the challenges and recommendations to increase inclusion and address the recent challenges surfacing as the “Me Too” movement and many others. Leaders must create an environment that promotes a healthy environment!

Listen to Diversity Training Then and Now: What Has Changed? (1-hour radio show).

Listen to the Podcast – Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal Beyond Left, Right, Center (1-hour radio show)

Henry Mintzberg discusses the imbalance that is destroying our democracies, our planet, and ourselves. Enough of the pendulum politics of left and right, as well as the paralysis in the political center. The world we live in needs a form of radical renewal unprecedented in the human experience. This conversation presents an integrative framework to suggest a comprehensive way forward. This discussion is based on Henry’s latest book Rebalancing Society: Radical Renewal, Beyond Left, Right and Center.

The Ohio State University – What Can You Do

Confronting Prejudice: How to Protect Yourself and Help Others

The purpose of this resource is to educate readers on the prevalence of prejudice and implicit bias in society, including information about what marginalized groups are most likely to be harmed by prejudice. The resource features information about how one can be an ally and an advocate for change, as well as how people experiencing discrimination can build resilience against these types of behaviors. Published by Pepperdine University’s online Master of Psychology program.

Systemic racism explained (4.53 min video)

Race in America (17 min video)

providing more detailed explanation of the root causes

Gratefulness.org Resources for Unlearning and Transforming Racism

McKinsey articles:

On the practical side – watch Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

A conversation with Emmanuel Acho about race that many white people have never been able to have. Many have thought these questions without realizing the key to mending the racial divide in our world lie within the answers, and that white people DO have the power to affect sweeping change and short circuit racism within their own lives and communities. The cure for what ails us – all of us — lies within these, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.

Dave Chappelle – 8:46 video

WARNING – PROFANITY ALERT – Dave is a comedian and talks about the last minutes of the life of George Floyd. This is a poignant look at recent events through Dave’s eyes.