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Reconstructing Inclusion
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) practitioners and the passionate must be beacons for dissent. Are we consistently or intentionally of this mindset? Let's all engage in DEI work that pulls everyone to have difficult, but transformational dialogues.
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Reconstructing Inclusion S3E13: Gamiel Yafai on Why Most Diversity and Inclusion Programs Were Never Built to Last
Why years of DEI work still hasn't moved past awareness, and what real embedding actually looks like.
Reconstructing Inclusion S3E12: Tracing Mattering Through Reconstructing Inclusion
Reconstructing Inclusion was already making the mattering argument. I just didn't know it yet.
Reconstructing Inclusion S3E11: You've Been Leading With the Box: Fred Falker on Seeing People First
Mattering is what changes when you stop leading with the box.
Reconstructing Inclusion S3E10: The Brain Science Behind Why Belonging Matters More Than Diversity Numbers
Neuroscientist and social behavior expert Dr. Steve L. Robbins unpacks why the brain's need to matter, the cost of exclusion, and the HERO Skills framework may be the real future of inclusion work.
Inclusion has an interdependence conundrum
For many years, and particularly over the past six years, the predominant characteristic of programs related to inclusion or so-called DEI has been to operate on a paradigm of distinguishing one group identity from another, flattening many into binaries positioned as opposites.
Reconstructing Inclusion S3E9: The AI-Inclusion Gap Rarely Talked About
We talk a lot about AI and diversity. We talk a lot less about who's actually in the room when the decisions get made.
“Mattering” for the DEI-Allergic
A recording from Amri B. Johnson and Kathy Wu Brady's live video
Reconstructing Inclusion S3E8: Your People Belong. But Do They Know They Matter?
Listen now | Most teams have belonging covered. Far fewer have figured out mattering (yet).
Belonging Gets You In. Mattering Keeps You Relevant.
I have been sitting with a distinction for a while now that I think is extremely relevant for the moment we are in.
Inclusion Is Polysemous
There is a word from linguistics that I discovered some years ago and recently came back to when I try to explain what inclusion actually is and what it actually does.