What happens when we are open to embracing both femininity and masculinity within ourselves and others? How do we create spaces where the embodiment of gender expansiveness can thrive alongside other identities? In this week’s episode of the Justice for All season of The Inclusion Solution LIVE podcast, host Leigh Morrison, Learning and Innovation Manager at The Winters Group, Inc., sits down with Rob Smith, CEO and Founder of Phluid (The Phluid Project, GET Phluid, and The Phluid Phoundation) for a conversation on the meaning of justice for all and how the pursuit of it can actually be joyful ..read more

In this kickoff episode for the Justice for All season of The Inclusion Solution LIVE podcast, host Mary-Frances Winters, founder and CEO of The Winters Group, Inc., sits down with Dr. Ruha Benjamin, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and award-winning author of the new book Imagination: A Manifesto. Listen in as they discuss the hard questions that we all need to ask in order to achieve justice in our technology-driven world, from who’s benefitting from so-called advances to who is being le ..read more

The new book Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023) by Mary-Frances Winters and the team at The Winters Group, Inc., reimagines policies, practices, procedures, and ways of working that foster equity and justice for all. In this kickoff episode of the book’s companion podcast, co-hosts Winters and Racial Justice at Work special projects editor Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez sit down with contributing authors Dr. Megan Larson and Leigh Morrison for an expanded discussion of Winters’ chapter on the minimization, weaponization, and demonizat ..read more

Djuana Beamon is a thought leader and diversity practitioner who has worked at a number of different organizations. She agreed to share her Black Fatigue story with a mission to wake people up. This week’s episode is a challenge presented to both black and non-Black folks to reimagine how to mitigate Black Fatigue in the context of being a friend, colleague, leader, community member and more. Djuana and Mary-Frances both call out the insufficient attention to sustainable strategies for diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice as a key contributor to Black Fatigue. The work starts with educati ..read more

Racial justice requires that white folks and non-Black people of color be clear in the ways they perpetuate anti-Black colorism, both historically and moment to moment. While it is easy to cause harm unknowingly, recognizing and getting curious about one’s role can be difficult when the default is to protect the ego. This is where loving accountability for one’s self can be a disruptor that opens dialogue. In this companion podcast episode for Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023), lead author Mary-Frances Winters and special project ..read more

Language truly matters in this episode with special guest Dr. Shannon Sullivan, Chair of the Philosophy Department at UNC Charlotte and author of Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism. This discussion covers a range of terms you may find familiar such as white fragility, and also concepts like inter-generational fatigue and Epigenetics. Join Mary-Frances Winters and Dr. Sullivan in taking the conversation deeper in understanding Black Fatigue. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit is now available on Amazon, Bookshop, Indiebound, Berrett-Koehl ..read more

Many organizations these days have supplier diversity programs, however, they’re often implemented without considering the potential barriers posed to smaller vendors owned by Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). How can we reimagine procurement policies and practices to mitigate harm to BIPOC-owned businesses? In this companion podcast episode for Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023), lead author Mary-Frances Winters and special projects editor Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez sit down with Mareisha N. Reese, President and Chi ..read more

Understanding how HR policies impact people differently due to institutionalized inequity is crucial to creating a justice-centered culture. So is questioning and interrogating longheld practices that serve as barriers to hiring BIPOC talent, from how job ads are worded to arbitrary requirements to unchecked bias throughout the interview process. In this companion episode for Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023), lead author Mary-Frances Winters and special projects editor Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez sit down with Celeste Warren, Vic ..read more

When taking a developmental approach to racial justice, coaching leaders who have lived in predominantly monocultural, monolingual environments will be distinct from coaching those who have had a lot of exposure and experiences with different cultures. In this podcast episode for the new book Racial Justice at Work: Practical Solutions for Systemic Change (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023), lead author Mary-Frances Winters and special projects editor Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez sit down with contributing author Terrence Harewood, Ph.D., and Beth Zemsky of Zemsky & Associates Consulting (www ..read more

At this year's Forum on Workplace Inclusion, The Winters Group, Inc hosted a live podcast recording event to explore the question: What would it mean to decolonize diversity, equity, and inclusion work? Put differently, what would it mean to reimagine a DEI industry that centers humanity, justice, and dismantling systems of inequity and oppression in all forms? What can we, as practitioners, advocates, and leaders, be doing differently to sharpen our own toolkit, do the work more effectively, and ultimately dismantle inequitable systems. To our own, our work’s, and broader ..read more