In this session, Melissa Ambers and I discuss over and under communications impact in the workplace. With recent layoffs, communication is one of the most talked-about topics. We share how to simplify communication while providing actionable steps you can take to improve communication in your organization. Co-host, Melissa Ambers, is an extraordinarily covert guru as a project manager with over twenty years of experience. She and her team offer tools and expert advice to produce top-quality work ..read more

This is the dear corner office podcast or workplace leaders learn why Black Latinx and indigenous women, Lee, and how to get them back. I'm your host Michele Heyward do to me, you probably haven't heard her heard of this, heard me describe this before. But when it comes to racism and diversity, equity inclusion inside an organization, it often gets pushed off as an HR issue. But what happens in organizations is really, it's cascaded throughout the organization, nobody's really siloed. And I go back to an instance in time a few years ago, I think, is around 2018 2017, where our story broke abou ..read more

This is the dear corner office podcast or workplace leaders learn why Black Latinx and indigenous women, Lee, and how to get them back. I'm your host, Michele Heyward you are because we have Florrie coming up. And as you're doing the poll, I want to start introducing you to Florrie as well. And so Florrie is the founder of a fantastic nonprofit. And one of the things I love about the work she's doing not only because it's in June is around gender equity, but it's around employers getting them ready for that work. And so Florrie is the founder and CEO of gender ideal is a nonprofit that uses da ..read more

Nonprofits white leadership must move from torchbearer of white supremacy to its pallbearer. The current nonprofit structure is a white savior. Yet they don't support the BIPOC communities they are supposed to serve. Too often the people doing the actual work are BIPOC but the white leadership hold the power. What steps should be taken to dismantle white supremacy in nonprofits ..read more

Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Dear corner office. I'm Michele Heyward. And I'm so happy to have you join us today we have a guest that is absolutely phenomenal. She has a different experience level coming through diversity, equity inclusion, and I'm so excited to introduce Luaskya Nonon to you Luaskya, Thank you so much for joining me. Thank you so much, Michele for having me. I really appreciate the opportunity. So, one thing I love about your experience is that you come from the legal side as an in house attorney for organizations when it comes to diversity, equity inclus ..read more

Welcome, welcome, everybody. It is so great to have you here for another discussion asked, we talk about the intersectionality of Women's Identities. I have again, if you just following us, or you probably you may not know, KC Atha. If you've been following me for a couple years since 2020, you may remember we used to do these regularly on Thursdays was she's back as a guest. Not my partner in crime as much anymore, but we're happy to have you. Hey, KC, how are you doing? I'm good. I'm so happy to be back in the seat with you. Yes. Okay. So today we're talking about a really important topic ..read more

Thank you so much for joining us today. I am Michele Heyward, founder of positive hire where we connect black indigenous and Latin X women who are experienced scientists, engineers and technology professionals to management roles. Today, I'm absolutely excited to kick off this great series of conversations we were having called the equity pursuit. And today to kick it off, we're talking about, really the barriers to progress and the things that white leaders in the workplace should be doing to bring equity. And this all came about because we've been seeing more and more companies celebrating a ..read more

Companies and organizations have been training Black and Hispanic people for roles in engineering, tech, financial services, and other industries. Their goals were to diversify these fields. Yet, diversity has not improved significantly for most companies in these industries. In this episode, Clarissa Silva sharesd why programs like these aren't impactful and what data employers should be tracking to show progress and success ..read more

He has this fascinating phrase where he talks about are organizations actually building a false narrative. John talks about how in the last 18 months organizations have created commitment statements of change. What's this and what does it mean? Find out on this episode as John Graham talks about Plantation Theory. Watch the full episode ..read more

Okay, so Laurel, can you share with everybody watching and listening a bit about your experience in HR? Because I really love what you've done? Yeah, well, you know, I always like to start by telling people, I'm not your traditional HR person. I consider myself a mutt, right? I started out in accounting in high tech. And then I did some auditing, I got my MBA and operations, international business, you know, went overseas to fit that. And then got into consulting around risk management. But in everything that I did, I was always a big part of hiring people, coaching people engaging with peopl ..read more