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🎧 Equity challenges being faced by Minority Leaders in the Corporate World | Maggie Chan Jones, Founder, Tenshey Inc, Author, Decoding Sponsorship

Unlike before, schools, colleges, and the workplace today are focusing on creating an inclusive environment to provide equal opportunities to everyone.  But there’s still a long way to go to spread the concept of inclusivity and diversity to every individual. In today’s episode of TBCY, we are extremely delighted to have Maggie Chan Jones with us.

🎧 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.

🎧 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.

🎧 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.

🎧 Radio Show #440: Less Career Path, More Crazy Paving…

Special Guest: Cathy Brown, CEO, Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs Cathy Brown, our former Exec Director at Engage for Success, and now CEO at The Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs, was unexpectedly diagnosed as having severe ADHD last summer. She joins us this week to talk about neurodiversity at work, how simple changes and understanding can make working life easier for many people, and how to create a workplace culture that values and celebrates the strengths of your neurodivergent people, rather than working against them.

🎧 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.

🎧 IAM1347 – CEO Leads Global Brand Focusing on Gender and Diversity in the Tech Industry

Kate Brodock is CEO of Women 2.0, a global brand that focuses on gender and diversity in the tech industry through programs, products, and media. Website: www.women2.com , www.katebrodock.com Twitter: women2 , just_kate

🎧 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.

🎧 233: Susan MacKenty Brady, Cultivating Your Best Self Through Inclusivity

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 233, an episode with a highly regarded leadership well-being coach, relationship expert, author, and speaker, Susan MacKenty Brady. In this episode, Susan articulated the upside of the global pandemic, specifically the norms about how women manage, lead, communicate, and show up.

🎧 #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.

🎧 The Fallacy Problem of Diversity & Inclusion

The thing about Diversity and Inclusion. Everyone sounds so convincing Maybe it’s because of all the fallacies Get your pen and paper ready because we’re talking about the Fallacy problem of Diversity and Inclusion In today’s show we discuss several things including: * Why Fallacies are relevant for Inclusion * 3 Fallacies for you to avoid * How Fallacies are related to the 3 Biggest Problems Here’s some of what we discuss on the show: A Fallacy is an error in reasoning  “A fallacy is a mistake, an error a flaw in reasoning.

🎧 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.

🎧 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.

🎧 “You really need to invest the time to really understand the people who work for you”, Marcia Brissett-Baily, Speaker, Writer & Top 50 Neurodiversity

Leila is joined by Marcia Brissett-Baily, Speaker, Writer & Top 50 Neurodiversity Women 2022 TODAY YOU WILL LEARN MORE ABOUT: – Marcia’s early experiences and the teachings from her grandma that she “will have to work twice as hard as a young black girl” as doors close due to your colour and your ethnicity.

🎧 Neurodiversity & Optimal Learning – Dr Devon McEachron, PhD

Get early access to our latest psychology lectures: Neurodiversity is the idea that neurological differences among people should be recognized and respected just the same as any other form of human variation. For too long the medical model of mental health has viewed differences like autism, ADHD, and dyslexia solely as “dysfunctional,” “disorders,” and “disabilities.

🎧 Celebrating International Women’s Day with Rachel Gilfrin

Celebrating International Women’s Day with Rachel Gilfrin #53 Nick Day is joined on The HR L&D Podcast sofa by Rachel Gilfrin who is a Confidence & Career Coach who works with ambitious women to grow their confidence and propel their careers. International Women’s Day has been observed since 1911 and the day marks a celebration of women, encouraging people to come together and campaign for gender equality.

🎧 Leveraging a Sense of Belonging to Shape an Organization’s Bottom Line, with Micah J. Wonjoon Kessel

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Micah J. Wonjoon Kessel about leveraging a sense of belonging to shape an organization’s bottom line. See the video here: For nearly two decades, Micah J. Wonjoon Kessel ( has designed empathic experiences applying research on the science of emotions.

🎧 Ep 50 – Neurodiversity at Work with Professor Amanda Kirby

In this week’s episode, I interview Professor Amanda Kirby about a fascinating topic – neurodiversity – and how we can create inclusive workplaces for everyone. Neurodiversity is an emerging subject especially in relation to adults and the workplace. Put simply, it defines the different ways we think, act and communicate.

🎧 Canva’s Localisation Approach with Michael Levot

Michael Levot is the Localisation Programme Lead at Canva. He’s spent the last few years building out localisation at design software startup Canva. He’s been particularly involved in developing internationalisation infrastructure for Canva’s continuous localisation pipeline and driving global growth with scalable and inclusive localised marketing.

🎧 Employer Branding T.I.P S04Ep.7 | Building autonomous teams via holacracy, a cultural footprint with Roxana Dobrescu, Chief People Officer at @Labst

Overview Tune in for Ep.7 of Employer Branding: The Inside Podcast, Season 4! In this episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Roxana Dobrescu, Chief People Officer at Labster. We talked about the importance of diversity & inclusion in strengthening company culture, maintaining a vibrant work environment when working from home, but also about holacracy, a cultural footprint that helps build truly autonomous teams.

🎧 Katrin Suetterlin: Content Design for Neurodiversity

Katrin Suetterlin is a content architect, a content designer, and an expert on designing for neurodivergent populations. You hear jokes about ADHD, dyslexia, and similar neurological conditions all the time, but as designers we need to take neurodivergence seriously.  Research shows that at least 20% of the population exhibits one or more types of neurodiversity. If you’re a human-centered design practitioner, you don’t want to overlook this important group of humans.

🎧 Video game: Splatoon 2

Today: Find out how executive presence works and what it means for you. Learn more Information about my leadership books, including “Unlock your Executive Presence: Feel Like a Boss,” online course “Executive Presence and the Diversity Dilemma,” YouTube tutorials and more can be found at www.connectioncounselor.

🎧 Is Neurodiversity the Secret to Bridging the Technology Talent Gap?

In today’s episode, we discuss Neurodiversity, which was one of the key highlights of the ERUPT2021 conference. For this session our panel included  Simon Prior who is Senior Test Manager at easyJet, Martin Carpenter , the CIO at Synomics Limited) and Rebecca Green who is the Global Employer Brand and Talent Attraction Lead at Rolls Royce. They discussed whether Neurodiversity is the Secret to Bridging the Technology Talent Gap.

🎧 Neurodiversity and Learning with Jessica Michaels from Adobe

In this episode of THE TALENT DEVELOPMENT HOT SEAT, Andy’s guest is Jessica Michaels. She spent 20 years of her career hearing, “You’re meeting your goals, but you’re still failing.” At 39, she got the diagnosis that explained everything. She is now a neurodiversity coach, consultant, and educator offering support for neurodiverse adults with workplace and career challenges.

🎧 How Diversity and Inclusion Will Build Your Organization’s Ultimate Success with Leslie Short

In a new Training Unleashed Podcast, Evan Hackel and Leslie Short explored a very practical way to assure that your company will become dramatically more successful . . .   When you focus on Diversity and Inclusion, you will become better attuned to the clients you serve in the marketplace and as a result, far more successful.

🎧 #114 – The Neurodiversity Movement

The Neurodiversity Movement is gaining momentum from academics and those suffering from the stigma of being diagnosed as different and disabled. Is there another way that society can view individuals with different styles of attention and communication that will foster awareness, inclusion, and appreciation of those differences.

🎧 From Diversity and Inclusion to Belonging with Asif Sadiq

For this week’s Inspirational Leadership Podcast I spoke with Asif Sadiq, who’s the Senior Vice President at WarnerMedia for Equity and Inclusion, International, he was previously the Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at adidas and has a long and rich career in the diversity and inclusion space with senior executive roles at The Telegraph Media Group, EY Financial Services and the City of London Police.

🎧 Neurodiversity Hiring: Important Ideas for More Inclusive Organizations

Neurodiversity Hiring: Important Ideas for More Inclusive Organizations Host: Steve Boese and Trish McFarlane Guests: Tracy Powell-Rudy, Integrate Autism Advisors; Dr. Colin Willis, HireVue Sponsored by: HireVue This week, we spoke with Tracy Powell-Rudy and Dr. Colin Willis about how to expand your organization’s hiring capabilities in a neurodiverse world.

🎧 Matt Sigelman returns to discuss workplace mobility, global Talent shortages and Building equity and diversity

Friend of the podcast Matt Sigelman returns to give an update on the recent merger of Burning Glass and EMSi and his new role as President of the burning glass institute. Matt also shares the results of some of the institute’s first research projects on, workplace mobility, global Talent shortages and Building equity and diversity.

🎧 412: Diversity-X with Kevin Withane

Kevin Withane is the founder of Diversity-X: a community to help underrepresented founders who are trying to make a positive impact in the world thrive, scale, and grow. Chad talks with Kevin about giving underestimated founders connections and access, creating a venture fund, and creating a platform via DiversityX.

🎧 EP. 70 How Diversity and Inclusion Work Improves Hybrid Teams

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a commitment. It’s a way of being and a way of leading. It’s a continual commitment to make it safer, have better conversations, deeper conversations, and continually raise awareness of the different experiences all of us are having.  Today we interviewed Annemarie Shrouder, an expert on DEI shares with us how to make your organization more caring, more empathetic, and more inclusive as you Team Anywhere.

🎧 Teresa Bonner – Executive Director – E.A. Michelson Philanthropy – Awakening Creative Expression

Teresa Bonner is the Executive Director of the E.A. Michelson Philanthropy ( an organization with a mission of championing programs that break barriers, build community and spark creativity, through funding and advocacy. E.A. Michelson Philanthropy has made grants totaling more than US$47 Million since 2006, actively supporting nonprofit organizations across the United States through direct financial support, advocacy, partnerships, informal alliances, convenings, trainings and more.

🎧 Ep219: Injecting Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Into Your Show – Genesis Kemp

Imagine that you are in transit in your podcast journey, you run out of gas, and eventually, you find yourself lost and frustrated. Genesis Kemp is here to clutch you out of that predicament with valuable insights on injecting inclusiveness from all walks of life. You do not want to miss this trailblazing guest, so oil up your gears and start your engines because this one has a lot to unravel.

🎧 Working with Trans Clients: Trans Resilience and Gender Euphoria

Working with Trans Clients: Trans Resilience and Gender Euphoria An interview with Beck Gee-Cohen, MA CADC-II, about how therapists can be better clinicians for trans people. Curt and Katie talk to Beck about gender identity (and why every therapist should do their own work around gender), historical perspectives on masculinity and femininity, the concepts of trans resilience and gender euphoria, the real problems with the DSM diagnosis of gender dysphoria and considerations for providing therapy to trans clients.

🎧 Cities are chasing crypto. But why?

Government leaders all over the world are taking a hard look at cryptocurrencies. El Salvador made bitcoin a national currency last year. Cryptocurrency investors continue to move to Puerto Rico for its tax incentives. And Miami and New York are in a race to become the nation’s crypto capital. Supporters believe crypto could be a way to drive economic growth and address income inequality and a host of other issues.

🎧 Merck: How to Integrate and Measure Diversity & Inclusion Strategies – Episode 73

*This episode is sponsored by Spokn (as a listener of our podcast you can get 2 months free on the annual contract with Spokn, please head over to getspokn.com/scalingculture) Our guest is Celeste Warren, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Merck. In her 25 year career at Merck, Celeste has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility within HR  and is responsible to advance and embed diversity and inclusion throughout the organization working with Merck’s leaders.

🎧 Ep 35: Keith Fraser Chair of the Youth Justice Board – on his diagnosis of Dyslexia & how it impacted on his career

Today I am joined by Keith Fraser who’s the Chair of the Youth Justice Board, Commissioner for No 10 Downing Street on Race and Ethnic Disparity as well as a great advocate and supporter of Neurodiversity at Work. We were lucky enough to have Keith feature in our book Neurodiversity at Work and so it’s a real pleasure to finally be able to have him on the podcast.

🎧 Sathya Bala: How Data Leaders Can Support Enterprise Diversity and Inclusion

Sathya Bala, Head of Global Data Governance at Chanel, shares why she launched My Skin My Story, a global non-profit community connecting diversity and inclusion leaders with data-focused professionals Inclusion and diversity has shot up the corporate agenda at many companies in recent years. For Sathya Bala, Head of Global Data Governance at Chanel, it’s a topic that will one day receive the same attention as sustainability does in business today.

🎧 Creating Diversity in Entrepreneurship

Gary Stewart is the founder of FounderTribes, a startup dedicated to diversity and matching businesses or entrepreneurs with the right investors and mentors to help them lead their business in the right direction. Impact Hustlers’ Maiko and Gary actually go way back with them crossing paths in Wayra, a technological innovation hub that they both worked in.

🎧 Supporting Women in Leadership

In honour of International Women’s Day, I’m here to give ideas of ways that you can support women in leadership roles.  There can be a number of reasons why there are less women than men in leadership roles.   Data from the House of Commons found that companies led by women outperform those led by men – but despite this, we’re very far from achieving gender parity in the workplace I share information about  Break the Bias Unconscious biases, opinions, beliefs are formed early in our childhood.

🎧 603: Fixing the Diversity Gap with Bethaney Wilkinson

In today’s episode of the As Told by Nomads Podcast, join me and Bethaney Wilkinson as we talk about her life’s recurring theme—the diversity gap. Bethaney shares what you can expect in her new book entitled The Diversity Gap: Where Good Intentions Meet True Cultural Change, how she believes solutions translate to communities, and how she does her work in race and equity despite it being an extremely taxing endeavor to be in.

🎧 1537: BYU Under Federal Investigation for its Treatment of LGBTQ Students

Join us for a live discussion about the groundbreaking Federal Investigation against Brigham Young University for its treatment of LGBTQ+ students with attorney Paul Southwick. We will discuss the investigation and its relation to recent changes in LDS and BYU policy. We will also analyze BYU’s initial response to the Office of Civil Rights and what you can do to help advance equality at BYU.

🎧 How For Them is Challenging Heteronormativity and Redefining Wellness Products for Queer Individuals with For Them Founder Chloe Freeman

For Them Founder Chloe Freeman dives into their acting career, the inspiration behind For Them, and how they are challenging heteronormativity. While working in the media production industry, Chloe realized that there was a severe lack of gender diversity. With a mission to shed light upon those that are underrepresented, Chloe was determined to help the underlying needs of the gender-diverse community by creating a whole new category of holistic wellness.

🎧 Ep782: Cynthia Owyoung | Vice President of Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging, Robinhood

Cynthia Owyoung, Vice President of Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging for Robinhood, drives the company’s approach to enhancing its culture of diversity and inclusion. She’s also the founder of Breaking Glass Forums, where she develops strategies to accelerate more diverse leaders and inclusive organizations. A recognized diversity leader, Cynthia was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Women of Impact in 2021. Cynthia serves on the Board of Directors for AbilityPath, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering people with special needs to achieve their full potential. 

🎧 How Can We Increase Gender Diversity in the PE/VC space? (Yahel Halamish)

Nina Capital, is a specialized venture capital firm investing in early stage startups at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Level 20 is a not for profit organisation founded in 2015 by 12 women working in senior roles in private equity, aligned around a common vision of improving gender diversity in the industry.

🎧 Creating a better work environment for all by embracing neurodiversity

Organizations that make an extra effort to recruit, retain, and nurture neurodivergent workers can gain a competitive edge from increased diversity in skills, ways of thinking, and approaches to problem-solving

🎧 Nitin Govila on Constructing You – Strong Heart, Strong Mind

Nitin Govila, a global business executive, has an extensive background in building and growing regions and organizations across multiple industries, channels and cultures. Presently as the Senior Vice-President for Serge-Ferrari, Nitin manages 7 independently-operated territories across Asia Pacific, Middle-East and Africa.

🎧 Coleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg, “Glass Half Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work” (HBR Press, 2021)

Today I talked to Colleen Ammerman about her new book (co-authored with Boris Groysberg) Glass Half Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work (HBR Press, 2021). The statistics are annoying, exasperating: choose your adjective. The proportion of female CEOs struggles to break 10%.