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🎧 The 150-year march toward gender parity in telecom

AUSTIN – Big 5G Event – In this fireside chat during the Women in Telecoms workshop, Ericsson North America CMO Ciricia Proulx and Rogers Communications VP of Advanced Services Tess Van Thielen, share their perspectives and experiences about why diversity is important for business, how the industry can move in a more positive direction to support diversity, and why studies show it could take nearly 150 years to reach gender parity in the workforce.

🎧 S3E23 : The Change Navigator : Sharon-Franklin Brown, Chief Impact Officer, Los Angeles LGBT Center & Board President, LA Pride

Happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month! As we enter week 2 of Pride Month, Jayzen is excited to welcome his guest, Sharon-Franklin Brown, Chief Impact Officer of the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Sharon also serves as the Board President for LA Pride, one of the oldest and largest LGBTQ+ Pride festivals in the country.

🎧 Being an Inclusion-First Brand with Lauren Tucker

Dr. Lauren Tucker is the founder and CEO of Do What Matters, an inclusion management consultancy designed to help marketing services agencies turn inclusion, equity, and diversity intent into impact. We discussed talent (it’s not a pipeline problem), creativity (diversity helps), Walmart’s Juneteenth ice cream blunder, and more this week on the On Brand podcast.

🎧 EP 200 Bringing Equality to Startup Funding by Investing in LGBTQ+ Founders

There are verified stories of LGBTQ+ members who have been ignored and singled out by potential investors because of their gender identity. Our guest, Ben Stokes, is on a mission to help create a world that’s built on radical inclusivity, where diversity of knowledge and experience is celebrated. He’s the Founding Partner of Chasing Rainbows, an early-stage investment fund focused on investing in founders who come from underrepresented backgrounds – particularly those from the LGBTQ+ community.

🎧 #64 Menopause: a workplace opportunity

Welcome to Wellthy Living conversations episode 64 The terms – future of work, modern leadership, gender equality, inclusion, humanising workplaces, and employee wellbeing, are all commonplace at the moment, so today I want to dive into a somewhat taboo subject that’s often ignored as part of these topical conversations and traditionally regarded as a medical or personal matter for women and their families only – MENOPAUSE.

🎧 Ep 97 – Closing The Gender Pay Gap with Michelle Gyimah

Gender and ethnicity pay gaps are a very real issue in the UK and worldwide – so how do we change that?  This week’s episode is part two of my interview Michelle Gyimah, the Director of Equality Pays, a gender and ethnicity equality consultancy dedicated to closing workplace pay gaps. We discuss what organisations need to know about tackling the gender and ethnicity pay gaps and how they can take action to make the changes that are needed.

🎧 Element of Inclusion 5th Birthday Episode

On May 23rd the Element of Inclusion podcast was 5 years old In two weeks is episode 250! Get your pen and paper ready because it’s our birthday and it’s a huge milestone both personally and professionally. In today’s show we discuss several things including: * A Review of the past 5 years * Our mission and why it matters * A personal story about Apple and Spotify and much more Here’s some of what we discuss on the show: 5 years done and more to come “Every year we have a Birthday episode like this and I’ve just listened to every Birthday episode from the past 4 yea

🎧 WorkPod: Building Equitable Workforce With Intentioning

In this session, Gloria Feldt, Co-founder and president of Take The Lead, talks about her experience in managing and promoting a diverse workplace. She also talks about her best selling book, Intentioning, explaining some of the important concepts therein. Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with frontline leadership experience, a bestselling author, and an in-demand keynote speaker.

🎧 Igniting the spirit of agility amid the Great Reshuffle

The world of work has irreversibly changed. As the CEO for Institute Agility, Neville Poole is actively making space for people-centric work experiences. Physical workplaces now serve to bring people together to do what they cannot do remotely: connect, align on values and be creative. What’s more, people want their work to be meaningful, especially the next generation of workers.

🎧 Gender Diversity In Leadership – with Rachel Gilfrin

Lucinda is joined by Rachel Gilfrin, a confidence coach and gender diversity specialist, to discuss the ways in which organisations can empower female talent by creating confidence, shifting mindsets and shaping new progression paths in the workplace. KEY TAKEAWAYS Women often feel as though they have to behave like someone else in order to be seen as a potential leader, which masks our true selves.

🎧 Powerful habits that will reshape the brain and shift behavior | Katy Murray, Author, Change Makers; Leadership coach, Diversity, and Inclusion consu

Sustainability, Inclusion, and Diversity, are three words that go together as a trinity. It is hard to define. If we look at it, we can see that diversity comes from the word “diverse” which is “different in nature or kind”. So, inclusion is about bringing or keeping people together. Sustainability, on the other hand, is the ability to sustain.

🎧 Hiring for Diversity & Decoding Bias with Arthur Woods

Hiring for Diversity & Decoding Bias with Arthur Woods #58 Nick Day is joined on The HR L&D Podcast sofa by Arthur Woods, a social entrepreneur and LGBTQIA+ advocate working at the intersection of equity, inclusion, and technology. He is the Amazon Bestselling author of Hiring for Diversity and the Co-Founder of Mathison, a technology platform that equips employers with everything they need to manage their diversity hiring efforts.

🎧 How To Radically Rethink Inclusion For Sustainable Business Results with Alison Maitland and Rebekah Steele

Introduction: Alison Maitland is a writer, speaker, advisor and coach. She is the co-author of two previous books, Future Work and Why Women mean business. She is also a co-author of the book we illuminate here on this show called Indivisible: Radically rethinking inclusion for sustainable business results.

🎧 Neurodiversity at Work, honoring Autism Acceptance Month – Digital Meetup Series

What do neurodiverse people need to feel welcome, be treated fairly, and celebrated at work? Often when most think about workplace diversity, race and gender are top of mind. But, please don’t stop there. Between 30-40% of the population are neurodiverse. Neurodiversity, or brain diversity, describes people who think differently.

🎧 Reframing Generational Stereotypes in Manufacturing with Rachele Focardi

Rachele Focardi is a generational diversity expert, international speaker, author, and Founder of XYZ at Work. We’ve talked about attracting the next generation to the workforce on this show quite a bit, but today is probably our most holistic conversation to date when it comes to all of the generations in the workforce and the wonderful things each generation brings to the table.

🎧 From Solo Consultant To Building A Team (Boutique Firm) With Kay Formanek: Podcast #241

Are you a solo entrepreneur who wishes to build your own team? Kay Formanek’s perspective on spending your time fruitfully, especially when it comes to your work, is exceptional. Kay is a global speaker on Diversity and Inclusion, visiting lecturer at leading business schools, and the Founder of Kay Diversity & Performance, a company committed to unleashing the power of Diversity Performance within profit and not-for-profit organizations around the world.

🎧 Greg Shepard with BOSS Capital Partners on Autism, Neurodiversity and Entrepreneurship

Greg Shepard of BOSS Capital Partners joins us to discuss autism, neurodiversity, and entrepreneurship. The School System and Learning Styles Growing up, Greg struggled with learning in school and communicating. He had a different style of learning that schools did not teach. He scored very high in some areas but struggled in others.

🎧 HR Works Presents HR Work Break: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at Every Level

In this episode of HR Work Break I’m joined by Amy Hull, Director and Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Paycor Inc. Listen in as we discuss the importance of investing in diversity, equity, and inclusion, infusing DEI at every level, and the positive ripple effect of opportunity.

🎧 Insight Podcast: Why we need to equalise access to finance

Within the field of impact investing, the growth of gender lens investment has been one the success stories of the last decade. And increasing evidence shows that investment policies that focus on gender equality have a transformative impact, especially in developing economies. We know that gender lens investing results in women from marginalised communities having increased access to finance and improvements to their working conditions.

🎧 SPOTLIGHT: Getting Serious About Inclusion With Janet Stovall

In this episode of the Gartner Talent Angle, Janet Stovall, senior client strategist at the NeuroLeadership Institute, discusses the strategies organizations can apply to elevate inclusion as a key business priority. She shares how to better define diversity, articulate its value, and hold individual leaders accountable for inclusion outcomes.

🎧 Tricia Manning on How to Lead With Heart and Leave a Legacy EP 143

Tricia Manning – How to lead with heart and leave a legacy. | Brought to you by Masterworks ( use code passion to start). Tricia Manning (@tricia_whitecapcoaching) is an author, certified coach, and former global business leader having reached the c-suite as only one of two female executives at the table.

🎧 How the U.K.’s approach to women on boards is improving gender diversity

Ahead of International Women’s Day, we’re looking at how the U.K. is moving the needle on gender diversity in corporate boardrooms. Many countries have mandatory quotas for the minimum number of women on corporate boards. The U.K., in contrast, adopted a voluntary approach to improve gender balance in the business world.

🎧 Episode 56: Diversity and Inclusion for the Irish workplace with Dr Jonathan Ashong Lamptey

A globally recognised authority on Diversity and Inclusion, Dr. Jonathan Ashong – Lamptey joins host William Corless in this episode to discuss Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace. Currently on his mission to help 1 million people around the world make the workplace more inclusive, Jonathan offers his insights on important questions such as: how to create a sense of belonging in the workplace, understanding and navigating microaggressions and the importance of integrating with new people in the workplace.

🎧 How to Support Executive Women in Technology?

#womenintech #diversity For all the strides made by women in technology, they still lag their male counterparts when it comes to executive leadership roles. How can organizations support women in senior-level roles? Two powerful women explain why diversity is important in the workplace and share advice on overcoming diversity challenges for organizations, women, and men.

🎧 Metta Talks: Season 2 Episode 5 – Thiago Carmo

In episode 5, our Co-Founder Gabi and Programme Associate Dana, chat with Thiago Carmo, Managing Director at social enterprise Passion4Social. Operating in Scotland, Passion4Social aim to help create an equal, understanding and inclusive society, celebrates diversity and puts people first, over and above profit margins.

🎧 Episode 76: Are Workers Done with Making Moral Compromises?

  Have you ever been asked to do something at work that you thought compromised your morals? It could be something big and dramatic like in a movie, where a worker is asked hide a report on safety even though it might mean people die or might be something more mundane. Maybe you were asked to tell your team that their jobs were safe even though you did not know if that was true, or maybe you had to tell a client that their work was going to get the company’s best resources even though you suspected that that was not going to be the case.

🎧 Building a Safer & More-Inclusive World For LGBTQ Young People with The Trevor Project CEO & Executive Director Amit Paley

The Trevor Project CEO & Executive Director, Amit Paley, discusses his career trajectory at The Trevor Project, the impetus for the organization, and how it became the world’s largest suicide prevention and mental health organization for LGBTQ young people. Inspired by the Academy Award-winning short film, “Trevor,” The Trevor Project was established after discovering there was no organization that provided resources for LGBTQ young people in the United States.

🎧 Trending News – June 2nd, 2022

In this minisode, Mindy, Ryan, and Jen discuss a few recent newsworthy items including: the nationwide baby formula shortage and drug supply chain complexities (00:33), the underrepresentation of diverse groups in clinical trials (06:08), and the federal government probes initiated by the AHA into commercial payers who represent Medicare and routinely deny access to care and services (10:52).

🎧 Making the Workplace More Human: How Everybody Wins with DEI (with Erin Thomas, VP, Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Upwork)

How do you get a whole organization behind the ‘why’? Erin Thomas is the VP, Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Upwork, the world’s work marketplace that connects businesses with independent professionals around the globe.

🎧 Adolescent gender diversity: sociodemographic correlates & mental health outcomes

In this podcast, we are joined by Assistant Professor Akhgar Ghassabian and Dr. Tonya White to discuss their co-authored JCPP paper ‘Adolescent gender diversity: sociodemographic correlates and mental health outcomes in the general population’.

🎧 How has India’s consumption inequality come down to a four-decade low?

A recently published IMF working paper said that the effect of the (food) subsidy adjustments on poverty is striking. Real inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, has declined to near its lowest level reached in the last 40 years.   The report, in a way, hailed the implementation of the free ration scheme while pointing out that it was marred by problems earlier.

🎧 TECC 269: Diversity in Engineering: Celebrating Black History Month With Ted Colbert

In this episode, we talk to Theodore (Ted) Colbert III, Executive Vice President of The Boeing Company and President and Chief Executive Officer of Boeing Global Services about diversity in engineering, how diversity can benefit an engineering firm, and how engineers can help promote diversity through mentorship.

🎧 Hire and Retain Diverse Talent with DEIB

Organizations must foster diverse and inclusive cultures to attract a diverse workforce of top talent, we have invited Devi Virdi, Group Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Centrica, and Nina Pagon, Consultant and DE&I Lead at Right Management UK, to share their perspectives on this timely topic.   92% of organizations believe that a diverse workforce is beneficial, and only 19% believe that diversity is well integrated into their current structure, according to Everest’s Future of Work Series Paper #2: Reimagining Workforce and Workplace Mechanics report.

🎧 Adam Parker on Strategies and Valuations

 Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Adam Parker, who is the founder and CEO of Trivariate Research LP. From 2010 to early 2017, Adam was the chief US equity strategist and director of global quantitative research at Morgan Stanley, where he was acknowledged as a top strategist and quantitative researcher multiple times by Institutional Investor magazine.

🎧 Apple Podcasts Delegated Delivery And Losing The iPod

Big news on Libsyn, Apple and the Apple Podcasts Delegated Delivery, the Boomplay Destination, the iPod discontinued and why that’s #heartbreak for podcasters, Facebook broke up with podcasting, new contest with Amazon Music to get you featured! IAB podcast revenue report, what Apple Podcasts rankings are based on, insight into gender parity in your podcasts guests, liability in podcasting.

🎧 Akita Somani: The Journey to Inclusion

In this week’s episode, Akita Somani, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion at U.S. Bank and a member of the Women in Payments ASEAN Advisory Board, joins Paul in an open conversation about mental wellbeing in the workplace and how implementing it into culture can lead to better business results.

🎧 Leaders with Heart Don’t Just want Equality, But Equity Too

In this episode, Heather sits down with Adrian Taylor, the Director of Diversity for Premier Health in Dayton, Ohio. Adrian Taylor leads programming that supports Premier’s commitment to diversity and inclusion with an emphasis on workforce diversity, supplier diversity, patient diversity, and community engagement. His commitment to diversity has even earned him several prestigious awards. Take a listen.

🎧 20VC: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital, What Existing Incumbent Venture Firms Can Do To Survive, The Biggest Challenges Facing New DAOs Today and

Ian Lee is the Co-Founder of Syndicate, a web3 startup that has raised over $28M from a16z, Kleiner Perkins, IDEO, and 300+ investors. Previously, Ian was Managing Partner of IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto venture fund backed by IDEO focused on web3, crypto, and blockchain startups. From 2017-2021, Ian led investments and helped incubate 80+ crypto startups in the areas of DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and more.

🎧 Leaders in EDI: Management Futures’ Shona Crooks & Sarah Cartwright and Commonwealth Games’ Darnelle Morgan-Johnson

In this episode, three inspiring advocates for diversity discuss what they have learned about standing firm and speaking out. Leaders in Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) is a monthly series covering news, views, comments and debates happening across the equality, diversity and inclusion space.

🎧 What the H*ll Is a ‘Family-Friendly’ Drag Show?

Drag queens messed with Texas and had a “family-friendly” drag show for little kids over the weekend. Yes, it was gross and was absolute degeneracy. Elsewhere in Texas, we find out a good guy with a gun was STOPPED by police from taking out the Uvalde shooter. And AOC says she’s an Indian now. #Uvalde #LGBTQ #PrideMonth NEW MERCH! GET TODAY’S SHOW NOTES with SOURCES: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🎧 Leveraging Technology to Drive DEI & Equitable Hiring w/Arthur Woods Ep.170

Arthur Woods is the Co-founder of Mathison, the first all-inclusive technology platform for diversity hiring and retention. He’s also the author of Hiring for Diversity. Previously, Arthur worked at Google where he led operations for YouTube’s Education division and oversaw YouTube for Schools. On this episode of the Strategy & Leadership Podcast, Arthur joins us to discuss leveraging technology in HR, how to hire inclusively, reasons why leaders opt out of #DEI initiatives, his big learning moments, and more.

🎧 Gender Diversity and M&A Outcomes

In this week’s episode, we’re looking at how gender diversity at both CEO and board level affects mergers and acquisitions (M&A) outcomes. Joining Julie-Anna Needham is Dr. Valeriya Vitkova, senior research fellow and course director at Bayes Business School. Dealcast is presented by Mergermarket and SS&C Intralinks. Download Gender Diversity and Dealmaking 2022 [here](

🎧 Only 19% of Female Journalists believe there is adequate gender diversity in UK Journalism

In collaboration with Women in Journalism, Man Bites Dog surveyed 1,200 UK journalists about the impact on female journalists, the media, and society in general. Gender inequality in UK journalism is addressed in the report’ Gender News Gap: The Impact of Inequality in Journalism & Media.’ Gender diversity in UK Journalism While 96% of journalists in the UK believe the media has a duty to reflect the diversity of the society it serves, the research reveals that fewer than one in five (19%) female journalists believe that there is adequate gender diversity in UK journalism.

🎧 #52: Akua Opong – On being an Amabssador for STEM & Neurodiversity, & an Advocate for Mentoring, Giving Back and Creating Opportunities for Others!

In today’s episode of the mi-brand HQ podcast, I am speaking to Akua Opong Akua works as a Senior Analyst within the Corporate Technology team at London Stock Exchange Group. This focuses on overseeing and maintaining the company hardware and software systems, resolving technical issues acting as an escalation point for the first line support team through the ITIL framework.

🎧 457: Embracing Diversity in the Workplace (with Kay Formanek)

Welcome to an episode with an inspiring speaker, author, and coach, Kay Formanek. Get Kay’s book here: Kay Formanek is the Founder and CEO of Diversity and Performance, a company committed to creating new insights and more conscious diversity leaders. She is the author of Beyond D&I, a book that equips leaders with strategic models and practical tools for advancing Diversity Performance in their organization.

🎧 How to Build a Real Workplace Culture of Inclusion that Delivers Results with Cynthia Owyoung |Partnering Leadership Global Thought Leader

In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Cynthia Owyoung, the vice-president of inclusion, equity, and belonging at Robinhood. Cynthia is also the Founder of Breaking Glass Forums, which aims to elevate diverse talent and inclusive organizations. In addition, she has established and led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives for over 15 years as an executive at organizations in multiple industries.

🎧 What’s New in Risk Management and Public Transportation? with Rick Graham

Rick Graham is the Chief Risk Officer for SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority), the nation’s sixth-largest provider of public transportation. Rick leads a team of ten risk management professionals responsible for the authority’s treatment of risk, management, and employee injury claims.

🎧 Episode 5.7 Jeremy Chou – Connecting Leadership & DEI

Join PERKS in New Orleans from June 11-15 at the SHRM 2022 Conference & Expo: Cause the Effect. Please register here and let us know if you’re going so we can give you a shout-out! What is the connection between your HR and DEI initiatives? How should leaders measure these programs? Jeremy Chou is the Director of DEI at Marqeta and he shares key examples and advice for doing DEI well.

🎧 International Women’s Day Special With Award Winning Author Farah Naz

In Episode 25 of the Constructive Voices podcast, Henry McDonald speaks to Farah Naz, award-winning climate change strategist, in our International Women’s Day special. Farah provides her professional and personal experience, with global insights, into where we stand in relation to the gender gap in the construction, engineering and architecture industries.

🎧 Dana P. Rowe On How To Create A Business Narrative That Gets Results (#128)

“Allow for the person you are helping to be the hero.” – Dana P. Rowe Dana’s musical theatre works are performed worldwide. His scores for The Fix and The Witches Of Eastwick, produced in London by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, earned critical acclaim and two Olivier Award nominations for best new musical.