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Your workplace culture is constantly changing. The Emtrain blog is dedicated to bringing human resources professionals, compliance officers, and other culture leaders new ideas and resources they can use to cultivate a conscious workplace. From evolving your code of conduct into a culture code to giving your employees the language and workplace skills they need to be a positive part of a respectful workplace culture, we’ve got you covered.

Are Your Company Benefits and Training Inclusive to LGBTQIA+?

As Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is becoming more top of mind and workforces are becoming more diverse, HR and People Leaders need to rethink their company’s benefits and perks...

Commercialization of Pride: Opportunistic LGBT Activism

This blog post was published in July of 2019, following an outpouring of brands supporting pride month and adopting temporary rainbow branding. Since then, this trend has not only continued,...

3 Tactics to Get Budget for Your DEI Programs

It's been a year since the murder of George Floyd, which galvanized people of all races, genders, ages, etc., to speak out for BLM and push for racial equality. A...

How Your DEI Efforts May Impact Mental Health

Mental health plays an essential role in the employee experience. Since 2020, when we think about mental health, we think of the COVID-19 pandemic, the social injustice against the Black...

Introducing the Workplace Culture Report on Inclusion

Inclusion has been a hot topic over the last few years. Some organizations have strategic initiatives around Inclusion, many others are trying to be responsive to employee needs following the...

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,...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

Fresh Look: Building Ethics, Respect, and Inclusion

Recent political events and historic socially turbulent times have made one thing crystal clear; the time to prioritize and review your Diversity and Inclusion efforts is now. Employees are speaking,...

The Pledge to Create Equity in Tech

Systemic economic oppression and the continuous wealth gap make it harder for people of color and underrepresented founders to launch their startups. For years, they have lacked equitable  resources they...

Inclusive Virtual Holiday Party Tips

Virtual work events, we either love them, or we’re tired of them. Screen fatigue has been a real symptom of work from home this year, so it’s normal if your...

Addressing Political Discussions at Work

We are living in unprecedented times. Politics consumes discourse, and polarization causes rifts in families and friendships. While political discussions in the workplace aren’t necessarily inappropriate, such conversations can interfere...
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