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Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at the Wharton School, the host of Charles Schwab’s Choiceology podcast, and co-directs the Behavior Change for Good Initiative. Sophia Pink is a PhD student at the Wharton School studying decision-making and behavior change. They join Julie Kratz on the Allyship in Action podcast to discuss their new research on the gender gap in competition. They highlight that women are, on average, less likely to enter competitions (like applying for jobs or promotions) than equally qualified men, a phenomenon observed across many decades and countries, even at the top of the labor market.

This episode of the Allyship in Action podcast features Charlene Polite Corley, Nielsen’s VP of Diverse Insights and Partnerships, and Stacie De Armas, Senior Vice President of Diverse Intelligence & Initiatives at Nielsen. They discuss the long-term value of diversifying your businesses, emphasizing that engaging historically excluded consumers is crucial for growth and brand loyalty. They highlight that while people can be “trickier” than money, diversifying your workforce and your approach to consumers is as important as diversifying your financial portfolio.

This episode of the Allyship in Action Podcast with Julie Kratz features Keivan Stassun, an astrophysicist and the founding director of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at Vanderbilt School of Engineering. Stassun shares his personal story as the father of an autistic son, which inspired him to create a Center focused on fostering neuroinclusion and leveraging the strengths of neurodiverse individuals in science and engineering.

This Allyship in Action Podcast episode with Julie Kratz features Emily Kasriel, author and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Kings College London, exploring the concept of deep listening and its transformative power.

Chéla Gage returns to the Allyship in Action Podcast talk about her new non-profit 1,000,000 Fosters. She shares her journey and the impact she hopes to create in this week’s episode.

This week on the Allyship in Action Podcast, Julie Kratz is joined by Sona Khosla, Chief Impact Officer at Benevity. Inclusion is about having resilience and courage to keep doing good when it feels like the world’s spinning the other way. And that’s exactly what Sona and Julie dove into this week – this idea that even when the news is full of noise and doubt, there’s a powerful current of good still flowing, quietly and persistently.

Dr. Poornima Luthra is a professor at the Coopenhagen School of Business. She joins the Allyship in Action Podcast to discuss how to turn fear into fuel for positive change. We discuss what she calls “stealth mode DEI,” and how to navigate these uncertain times from a global perspective.