Greetings friends! Thank you for listening to the Inclusion Catalyst.
I’m Mickey Desai. My co-host Susan Cooper and I have been talking about the future of the Inclusion Catalyst podcast, as both of us find we have insufficient bandwidth to continue to regularly work on the program.
But even as our production schedule has slowed down, it is clear we have a dedicated audience that we have every intention of keeping. So we have come...
This episode was recorded on May 27, 2020. Mickey visits with Olanike Ayomide-Mensah to talk about equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace; and how it intersects with leadership development. We discuss: We've been chasing diversity and inclusion since the Civil Rights Act and making anemic progress. It's time workplaces face the truth about what it's going to take to see real change.
Nonprofit organizations have a unique opportunity to...
Scott Ayotte, the Director of Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and Equity at Grand Valley State University joins us to share his expertise on the transtheoretical model of behavior change as it relates to talent acquisition. We discuss: Organizational structures and how behavior change models are used
The phases of the transtheoretical model of behavior change
Creating cultural and structural environments that are welcoming for diverse...
Ed Reed from Fair Count joins us to discuss their outreach and community infrastructure programs to increase awareness and participation in the 2020 Census.
Fair Count is a non-profit with a mission to engage hard to count communities in the US Census through outreach and education. They are also doing the groundwork the strengthen communities through civil engagement and providing infrastructure in communities that will be available for use...
Lauren Camdzic joins us to discuss the need to include disabilities in corporate board agendas and conversations of diversity. She also shares her personal journey of adapting to life in a wheelchair and the importance of ADA compliance.
Show notes: Lauren discusses the Valuable 500 and the companies who have pledged to make disabilities a part of their diversity conversations
How companies can modify their spaces to provide access for those...
