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Is Your Team Truly Psychologically Safe? You Might Be Surprised
Psychological safety is the number one factor in team performance, yet is often lacking due to silence mistaken for agreement, fear of mistakes, and unaddressed conflict.
How to Make Frontline Training Inclusive
Engaging frontline workers in allyship and inclusion initiatives can be challenging, and it does not need to be. Frontline training can be effective following three principles.
300: The Gender Competition Gap with Katy Milkman and Sophia Pink
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.
3 Meeting Inclusion Strategies
Meetings are the essence of an organization’s culture and there are ways allies can make them more inclusive.
299: Diversifying is the Best Way to Grow Your Business with Stacie de Armas and Charlene Polite Corley
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.
298: The ROI of Neuroinclusion with Keivan Stassun
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.
297: Deep Listening Strategies with Emily Kasriel
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.
296: Launching a Non-Profit with Impact with Chéla Gage
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.
How to Be an Ally Across Generations
Age and different generations is a critical dimension of diversity in the workplace. And, also the biggest area of bias. Learn how to be an ally for other generations.
295: Baked-In Resilience: Keeping the Flame of Inclusion Alive, Quietly and Powerfully with Sona Khosla
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.