33 - Jennifer Brown, author of How to Be an Inclusive Leader

We are kicking off Season 2 with a bang! Our first 2 episodes feature incredible guests who are truly doing good business. In September, we’ll officially get into our Season 2 format of 2 episodes per month - both around a specific topic and both chock full of powerful takeaways and small steps you can take in your life and work.

We are thrilled to start the season with Jennifer Brown, a leading diversity and inclusion expert, dynamic keynote speaker, best-selling author, award-winning entrepreneur and host of The Will To Change podcast, which uncovers true stories of diversity and inclusion. As the founder, president and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting, Jennifer’s workplace strategies have been employed by some of the world’s top Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits—including Walmart, Microsoft, Starbucks, Toyota Financial Services, T-Mobile, and many others— to help employees bring their full selves to work and feel Welcomed, Valued, Respected and Heard℠.

Her new book, How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive (Berrett-Koehler), released in August 2019, has an important message for business leaders everywhere: it's time we turned the promise of inclusion into a reality. 

Key takeaways & helpful links:

How to know when you’ve got a problem with D&I? Why to put I before D, and how does belonging play into the conversation?  Who is doing it well & why re: D&I? D(g)B Episode 15 - Inclusion  Peter Drucker - Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast Reversing the Generation Equation  www.inclusiveleaderthebook.com - assessment to learn where you are in your inclusive leader journey