How to Develop Our Workplace Respect Skill
Studies show that work conflict impacts us in pretty significant ways—often even more than personal or family drama. That's because our identities are often tied to our work. So feeling disrespected...
Drive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) with Current Events
We are living in a society that is at once rapidly changing and stubbornly rooted in a history in which differences in race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation,...
3 Ways to Avoid Social Media Fallout in the Workplace
Best Practices for Social Media in the Workplace To the extent that events of 2020 across communities in the United States left any room for uncertainty about the current state...
Returning to the Office: Policies and Procedures
How to facilitate a smooth transition back to the workplace It's beginning to look like we are out of the woods. What once seemed like this distant, unattainable milestone has...
Driving Social Justice from the Bottom Up
From Rodney King to George Floyd, it’s time to put social justice issues and inequality on center stage until we make progress. Thirty years ago, the world watched in stunned...
Empower Your Employees to Be an Upstander
“Go back to where you came from!” “You don’t belong here!” "Didn’t the virus start in China?” "Why Black Lives Matter? All Lives Matter, too” Some of us may have...
New Emtrain President to Make Bigger Impact on Workplaces
We spent the last two years transitioning our business from an eLearning compliance company to a CultureTech company. We launched EmtrainAI, a pioneering learning and analytics platform, and published extensive...
Ramadan: How to Support Your Muslim Employees
It's that wonderful time of year again! No, not Thanksgiving or Christmas. The holy month of Ramadan begins April 13th - May 12th, 2021. Muslims worldwide observe 30 days of...
American but Asian: The anti-Asian turning point
I was born in Seoul, South Korea and adopted as a baby into my loving, Caucasian, Minnesotan family. I grew up being one of maybe three other Asian kids in...
Are Managers Taking Complaints Seriously?
What if your managers aren’t taking employee complaints as seriously as they should? Note: This issue feels even more urgent now that employees are experiencing the stress from the coronavirus...
Remote Workplace Harassment: 4 ways to Prevent
Workplace harassment comes in all forms. As large companies like Salesforce commit to full-time work from home schedules, HR and Legal teams need to be vigilant of new forms of...
"Women Who Made The World A Better Place to Work"
“My persuasion Can build a nation Endless power With our love we can devour” Women have always been these 3 things: Smart enough to make millions Strong enough to bare...
Creating Inclusion and Equality for Women at Work
For decades, women have been fighting for equal rights in the workplace, education, government, reproductive rights, and so forth. Companies have made pledges to have more women in leadership positions...
On Being a Woman Entrepreneur and CEO
I started a business to address an obvious (to me) market need. As an employment lawyer, investigator, and workforce trainer, I could see that companies failed to manage harassment and...
Top Cyber Security Vulnerabilities in 2021
As organizations increasingly leverage cloud-based applications and look at another year of working from home, security professionals predict increased security threats in 2021 and cybercriminal activity. Some estimates have increased...
Creating Opportunities for the Future of Black Leadership
“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. If you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” That’s...
Three Structural Inequities That Lead to a Lack of Diversity
"Why does it matter how many [insert underrepresented group] work here? It’s about Diversity of thought, right?" It's a sentiment that's holding many people and organizations back from realizing transformative...
Blind Recruiting: Combat Bias to Drive Diversity
Building a more diverse and inclusive workforce does not happen overnight, and an organization cannot mend under representation with "diversity hires." Addressing a lack of diversity needs to start at...
Why We Must Continue to Speak About The Unspeakable
"Bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven’t conquered yet." - Ntozake Shange I first read those words in my freshman year of...
Allyship in Hollywood: Black History Month
The year is 1957. Black performers have just begun to break into the mainstream music scene, but the integration into popular culture is slow going and very selective. Singers like...
Black History Month Now and All-Year
Black History Month hits a little differently in 2021. Since the tragic death of George Floyd, following many other extrajudicial killings of black people, many people and brands have a...