How To Have Difficult Conversations About Diversity In The Workplace! | Lenora Billings-Harris & Tim Shurr

In this episode, we are joined by a totally mesmerizing guest who is one of the country’s foremost experts on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Lenora Billings-Harris, CPS is a CPAE (Council of Peers Award of Excellence) Hall of Fame speaker and an internationally recognized authority in the areas of inclusion, diversity, and bias.

Lenora sheds light on what bias is and identifies biases one can have that will affect the kind of decisions you make in your business, your profession, and your personal life. She also provides different tools for you to become more aware of your bias and what you can do about it.

Tune in now because you definitely want to listen in and learn these brilliant insights and tools and become wiser in the decisions and actions that you make.

Quotes:

“If you want to achieve all of these business goals that you have expanding your market, attracting and keeping the best talent, etc… having a diverse and inclusive workforce can make that happen.” - Lenora Billings-Harris

“Diversity, who's on the team, inclusion is who gets to play.” - Lenora Billings-Harris

“We can't fix what we don't know. And when we do know, we're at choice.” - Lenora Billings-Harris

“We can't change the past. But we can reframe the future based on our current behavior.” - Lenora Billings-Harris

“When it comes to inclusion, Intention is not enough, because we can't read everybody's minds, Impact is what's important.” - Lenora Billings-Harris

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Implicit Association Test - Harvard

http://thediversityadvantage.info

https://lenorabillingsharris.com 

Show Notes:

[00:38] Greetings and introduction of Lenora Billings-Harris

[01:34] What’s current in the area of diversity and inclusion in the workplace

[04:28] Diversity is easier, inclusion is harder

[09:10] What is bias

[11:00] Implicit and explicit biases

[14:39] A tool to help you become aware of your implicit biases

[19:13] Helping organizations with their business case for diversity

[22:21] An exercise to know how fast you make decisions based on bias and what you can do about it

[25:38] Reframing the future

[26:52] Being willing to ask questions

[30:11] How to apologize

[31:38] Why you want to have real diversity

[34:10] Intention is not enough 

[37:19] Ubuntu  

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