What's The Difference?
132 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDiversity is an incredible resource that is likely going untapped in your organization...Here is your chance to change that.
Look around this country. Diversity & Inclusion professionals, as well as countless committed leaders and employees have been working hard for decades to create organizations that are more diverse and inclusive. They are working hard to make Diversity & Inclusion (or D&I) a part of the DNA of their organizations and communities. Yet for every two steps forward, we still take one step back. Or two. Or three.
It's time for our approach to make sure that two steps forward remains just that: two steps forward. It's time for Diversity 3.0: Transformational Diversity.
Transformational Diversity requires us to build new skillsets to go along with new mindsets. It requires us to respond to ever greater levels of complexity. When we operate at this level we ensure that the fact of Diversity, the fact that we are all different to one degree or another, actually transforms individuals with ideas and experiences from ineffective siloed belief-bunkers into truly inclusive environments where everyone interacts at the peak of professional effectiveness.
Sara Taylor is author of the best-selling book Filter Shift, and founder of deepSEE Consulting. Each podcast episode of What's The Difference? provides the tools, resources, and insights you need to begin to transform your organization or the organizations with whom you work into the inclusive, effective powerhouses of the 21st century.
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Episodes
The 5 Stages of Cultural Competence with Sara Taylor
January 25, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MBThe 5 Stages of Cultural Competence What You Will Learn: What the 5 stages of cultural competence are. How the first three stages of developing cultural competence cultivate cultural humility. How cultural humility encourages cultural responsiveness. About Sara Taylor Sara Taylor earned a master’s degree in Diversity and Organizational Development from the University of Minnesota. She served as a leadership and diversity specialist at the University of Minnesota for five years and ...
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are Good for Business with Sara Taylor
January 18, 2023 09:00 - 10 minutes - 13.8 MBDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion are Good for Business What You Will Learn: The ways that diversity, equity, and inclusion promote innovation. How diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts influence long-term employee retention. Why inclusive, equitable, and diverse organizations generate a strong sense of belonging for employees. The cost of losing an employee due to lack of DEI standards. The value of managers maintaining a firm commitment to diversity. How cultural competence ...
What is Diversity? With Sara Taylor
January 11, 2023 09:00 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MBWhat is Diversity? With Sara Taylor What You Will Learn: The value of answering the question “what is diversity?” How diversity was once defined, compared to the way organizations are encouraged to define it today. What aspects or characteristics of a person should be calculated into “diversity” metrics and where to draw the line. The limits organizations face when trying to implement diversity programs. The importance of finding out why people with specific identities are not fin...
Predicting Recession Outcomes with Organizational Diversity with Sara Taylor
October 12, 2022 08:00 - 11 minutes - 16.1 MBPredicting Recession Outcomes with Organizational Diversity What You Will Learn: What the Great Recession can teach us about the impact of diversity in organizations How diversity can impact your bottom line The difference between companies that thrived or flatlined between 2006 and 2014 What five marginalized groups impacted organizations the most What five key experiences these groups highlighted as having the greatest impact on them Where fairness, inclusivity, and validation...
Women's Wealth and Pay Equity Part III, with Sara Taylor
October 05, 2022 08:00 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBWomen’s Wealth and Pay Equity Part III What You Will Learn: More about the insights into women’s wealth that Robyn Ross developed over 20 years in the finance workforce. How the talent acquisition system in the financial services industry is currently backward compared to other industries. What women are doing to stand up for themselves and correct the system. Why diversity is the financially wise choice for financial services companies to make. How to allow people to make honest ...
Women's Pay and Wealth Equity: Part II, with Sara Taylor
September 28, 2022 08:00 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBWomen’s Pay and Wealth Equity: Part II What You Will Learn: Women earn less, and have less wealth to invest with The majority of investment management firms are owned by white men; less than 1% by women Why women get worse advice from financial advisors How women in investing outperform men by 40 basis points How gender plays a role in the treatment of investors by advisors and firms The effect of biases on wealth equity in society About Sara Taylor Sara Taylor earned a maste...
Breaking Down the Wealth Gap, Part 1 with Sara Taylor
September 21, 2022 08:00 - 8 minutes - 11.3 MBBreaking Down the Wealth Gap, Part 1 What You Will Learn: What is Equal Pay Day, and what does it represent? How pay disparities between men and women increase for different ethnic groups Where women are continuously losing wealth outside of their jobs How much longer would a woman have to work than a man in a single year to earn the same wealth How education level actually increases the wealth gap The hiring and promotion gap between men and women About Sara Taylor Sara Tayl...
Cultivating an Equitable Hybrid Workplace: Part 2 with Sara Taylor
September 14, 2022 08:00 - 10 minutes - 14.9 MBCultivating an Equitable Hybrid Workplace: Part 2 What You Will Learn: Why it’s important to consider the impact your decisions have on individuals in the workplace How our unconscious biases create distrust Why assuming difference will help us to break away from unconscious bias Why we should be outcome-focused; managing work over managing people How distrust of our workers keeps us from cultivating equity Strategies that can help us see other perspectives and do more to create...
The Pitfalls of Creating Equality over Equity: Part I, with Sara Taylor
September 07, 2022 08:00 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MBThe Pitfalls of Creating Equity over Equality, Part 1 What You Will Learn: The difference between equality and equity in the workplace How approaching equity from the minimization stage (we’re all the same) is actually creating more inequity How the status quo perpetuates ineffective strategies and practices at work Why focusing on the outcome of work (rather than the input) positively contributes to creating equity How “fairness” keeps us in minimization and doesn’t achieve what ...
What Florida’s Stop WOKE Act Means for Organizations, with Sara Taylor
August 31, 2022 08:00 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBWhat Florida’s Stop WOKE Act Means for Organizations What You Will Learn: What is Florida’s Stop WOKE Act How this will affect educational and workplace organizations in the future What motivated this type of legislation to be created What the bill is trying to achieve vs. what it will actually achieve How some of the bill’s overarching concepts are okay but fall flat in reality How this bill promotes continued polarization and minimization (stages 1 and 2 of cultural competence...
Episode Title: Five Stages of Cultural Competence Part III, with Sara Taylor
August 24, 2022 08:00 - 19 minutes - 26.4 MBFive Stages of Cultural Competence Part III What You Will Learn: Perceived orientation vs. developmental orientation: What is it, and how does it affect cultural competence? How unresolved issues from previous stages of development keep us stuck What is trailing orientation, and how does it create more polarization? How both dominant and marginalized groups can reverse their orientation and feed off of polarization Why our best intentions and moving toward equality often don’t wor...
Five Stages of Cultural Competence Part II, with Sara Taylor
August 17, 2022 08:00 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBWhat You Will Learn: How we see differences in each stage of cultural competence The specific areas of development that contribute to us getting stuck in one of the earlier stages Understanding why it’s so difficult to approach DEI work from stage four or five How our own judgments based on which stage we’re in can affect our perception of others Where most of the population sits on this scale of awareness Why the “us vs. them,” “good vs. bad” mentality continuously stagnates our ...
Five Stages of Cultural Competence Part I, with Sara Taylor
August 10, 2022 08:00 - 19 minutes - 27.5 MBFive Stages of Cultural Competence Part I What You Will Learn: What are the five stages of cultural competence How to view each stage from a conscious and unconscious framework of awareness Why DEI work can be so tricky when considering the stages of cultural competence Where most of the population sits on this scale of awareness Why our best intentions in DEI work are often not enough based on our own conscious beliefs and perceptions How the Intercultural Development Continuum...
Responding to Identity-Based Trauma Events, with Del Esparza & Dr. Brandale Mills Cox
May 11, 2022 08:00 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBWhat You Will Learn: Should organizations respond to identity-based trauma events How Americans view the responses of organizations following incidents What can organizations do if they misstep, and how can they strengthen their brand afterward How ongoing transparency and accountability impact the strength of a brand What consumer demographics expect the most and the least from brands Which demographic is the most loyal and less likely to shift How the language used when addres...
Inclusion Coaches Part II, with Sara Taylor and Gina Kundan
May 04, 2022 08:00 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MBWhat You Will Learn: How working as a Resident Advisor during college introduced Gina to DEI as a profession In what ways bias impacts productivity in the workplace, and how to overcome it How peer equity/inclusion coaches fit into the MnDOT organization Why it’s important to contribute to DEI conversations that are already being held How to select peer equity/inclusion coaches for your organization What are the most important parts of peer equity coach training Why it’s crucial...
Inclusion Coaches Part I, with Sara Taylor
April 27, 2022 08:00 - 16 minutes - 22.2 MBWhat You Will Learn: How organizations support employees after DEI related trauma What are peer inclusion coaches, and how are they able to help organizations in being more effective and proactive in DEI efforts Why are the reasons that organizations need readily available resources What are the goals for peer equity coach programs in organizations What peer equity coaches are not, and what are their required qualifications How does deepSEE Consulting train peer equity/inclusion c...
Prioritizing Equity in Organizations, with Jason Medley
March 16, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 42.6 MBWhat You Will Learn: Why authentically listening to others is so important for leaders How Jason’s personal experience allowed him to consider how minority groups feel in the workplace Why leaders should focus on impacting employees’ lives outside of the workplace to foster a better workplace culture Why prioritizing equity and fairness resonates with more people than focusing on diversity How Jason discovered that men are often promoted over women because they are the loudest in th...
Defining Microaggressions: Part II, with Sara Taylor
March 09, 2022 09:00 - 27 minutes - 38.3 MBWhat You Will Learn: What are the four different root causes of microaggressions What are unconscious filters, and how do they impact our associations How do we typically respond or act based on filter associations How does our lack of exposure to different cultures, regions, or experiences affect our associations What are the three different ways that someone can be partially conscious of microaggressions What seven strategies can you take to reduce your likelihood of microaggres...
Defining Microaggressions: Part I, with Sara Taylor
March 02, 2022 09:00 - 14 minutes - 19.7 MBWhat You Will Learn: What are microaggressions, and how they emerge as patterns How microaggressions can become pile up and become traumatic for the receiver Why an employee who has experienced microaggressions will often fight, fly, or freeze Why stereotypical unconscious bias reinforces the advantages for dominant groups and reinforces the disadvantages for non-dominant groups What should organizations do when their employees experience microaggressions About Sara Taylor Sara T...
Celebrating Black History Month, with Sara Taylor
February 23, 2022 09:00 - 19 minutes - 27.2 MBWhat You Will Learn: What is the origin story of Black history month and why do we still have it How other heritage months differ from Black history month Why do we separate Black history from general United States history What is dominant culture and how does it create an advantage How to address Black history month in your organization Why history often doesn’t mention races other than the dominant race About Sara Taylor Sara Taylor earned a master’s degree in Diversity and O...
Going Beyond Diversity in Recruitment, with Keith Wyche
December 29, 2021 09:00 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBWhat You Will Learn: Why black professionals have lost faith in DEI efforts What is the most consistent frustration among black professionals throughout corporate America Why we should first focus on leading with inclusion rather than diversity What is the problem with only focusing on diversity in recruiting Why it’s important to first understand how we got here to truly create a culture of inclusion How does the mindset of black millennials differ from other generations How to...
The Silent Threat: Disparities in Healthcare, with Tadé Ayeni
December 22, 2021 09:00 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBWhat You Will Learn: How Tadé discovered the transformative power of education through his father’s career Why Tadé believes that providing access to higher education to oppressed communities will allow them to solve their own problems What unintentional barriers are often presented to minorities during their educational careers What is the difference between health equity and healthcare disparities and equity and equality How the healthcare practitioner and the healthcare industry’...
The Forgotten Identity: Disability at Work, with Victor Calise
December 15, 2021 09:00 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBThe Forgotten Identity: Disability at Work What You Will Learn: How Victor found his way to DEI work and to shining a light on the important issues around disability at work and its overlap with other minority identities Why Victor's goal in his role as Commissioner for the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities is to bring awareness to disability and accessibility issues What big wins and significant progress Victor has been able to facilitate in his role, including helping New ...
Discussing the Benefits of Inclusive Leadership, with Sara Taylor
December 01, 2021 09:00 - 24 minutes - 33.4 MBWhat You Will Learn: In this unique episode of What’s The Difference, you’ll hear audio from a panel at the Stevens Institute of Technology about the benefits of inclusive leadership, in which we discussed Cultural Competence as a business skill, when it is and isn’t appropriate to point out the “differences that make a difference,” and why context is vital. Hear insights about: Why developing your Cultural Competence is a key business skill that goes far beyond “knowing when to kiss, bow...
Change, Giving Up, and Extra Work, with Sara Taylor
November 17, 2021 09:00 - 6 minutes - 9.49 MBWhat You Will Learn: Why objecting to change, feeling like giving up something, and feeling it’s too much extra work are common points of resistance to diversity in the workplace and DEI efforts Why real change must happen across all levels of an organization, and why individual growth and transformation is the key to changing the organization Why the process of developing Cultural Competence isn’t about giving up anything but about adding on new skills and abilities to navigate differe...
It’s More Than Just a Name: Deadnames and “Preferred Pronouns," with Sara Taylor
November 10, 2021 09:00 - 7 minutes - 10.1 MBWhat You Will Learn: Why it feels awkward and oftentimes uncomfortable for most of us when we are called by the wrong name incorrectly How Sara recently participated in a panel presentation on inclusive leadership and relationships at the Stevens Institute of Technology Sara shares comments from the other panelists that explain why “preferred pronouns” aren’t really a preference, and why it’s important to avoiding calling trans people by their deadnames Why a better way of referring t...
It’s More Than Just a Name, with Hope Scheeler
November 03, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MBWhat You Will Learn: How Hope transitioned her career from mechanical engineering to a brand new career in DEI practice Why Hope found her passion in making things better and affecting change, and why she chose to leave her engineering role behind to focus on DEI full time What challenges Hope faced and unexpected surprises she has experienced as a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practitioner How working with an outstanding mentor helped guide Hope’s career and gave her a better u...
Who Leads Your DEI Efforts?, with Sara Taylor
October 27, 2021 08:00 - 6 minutes - 8.5 MBWho Leads DEI? DEI Leaders and the Importance of Roles What You Will Learn: How a survey of 383 U.S. employers from Xpert HR revealed that only 11% of these employers had Chief DEI Officers leading their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts Further findings of the Xpert HR survey: 15% had DEI efforts led by volunteer employee groups 17% said no one leads their DEI work 19% said a “social justice workgroup” or board of directors led their efforts 36% responded that it was lead...
Handshakes and the Shared Meaning of Culture, with Sara Taylor
October 20, 2021 08:00 - 11 minutes - 15.8 MBWhat You Will Learn: Why 75% of people surveyed responded that, due to the global pandemic, they no longer feel comfortable shaking hands in a job interview Sara describes a pre-pandemic training exercise she and her team would employ to demonstrate the discomfort people sometimes experience when getting close to others Why shared meaning around our cultural behaviors informs how comfortable or uncomfortable we feel doing those behaviors How the “handshake” ritual came to be historica...
ROI of DEI, with Sara Taylor
October 13, 2021 08:00 - 8 minutes - 11.3 MBWhat You Will Learn: Sara shares the story of “Jaden,” the manager of her local coffee shop who desperately needed a day off from nonstop work, an example of what happens when leadership does not invest in DEI work and learning Why Jaden chose to give her two-weeks notice because she felt her manager didn’t respect her or her family Why Jaden’s story demonstrates the need for businesses and organizations to invest in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion work Why Jaden’s manager’s internal ...
DEI Expectations from Generation Z in the Workplace, with Dr. Corey Seemiller & Dr. Meghan Grace
September 29, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MBWhat You Will Learn: Why Generation Z as a cohort is the most broadly diverse generation in history, and why DEI expectations from Generation Z in the workplace are important to understand Why Generation Z often defines Diversity as “who we are”, and why Cultural Competence is a crucial skill to help navigate their workplace expectations Why greater inclusivity in Generation Z’s upbringing has played a big role in defining their expectations for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the wo...
Making the Case Part III: Benefits of Cultural Competence, with Sara Taylor
September 22, 2021 08:00 - 15 minutes - 21.7 MBWhat You Will Learn: Sara defines Cultural Competence as understanding how our unconscious minds make decisions for us and taking conscious control of our behaviors Why the first step in defining the benefits of Cultural Competence involves recognizing the “differences that make a difference” Why our level of Cultural Competence is involved in virtually every interaction we have in the workplace How research by Joseph DiStefano and Martha Maznevski found that diverse teams make up bot...
Episode 98: Making the Case Part II: Benefits of Inclusion in the Workplace, with Sara Taylor
September 15, 2021 08:00 - 9 minutes - 13.1 MBWhat You Will Learn: Why there are many business benefits of Inclusion in the workplace, and why Inclusion allows you to create an environment that takes advantage of the benefits of Diversity How the cost of talent turnover is anywhere from 40% to 150% of an employee’s annual salary, and how an inclusive environment increases engagement and retention How Gallup found that 13% of the global workforce are actively engaged at work, and why management’s strong commitment to Diversity is th...
Episode 97: Making the Case Part I: Why Diversity is Good For Business, with Sara Taylor
September 08, 2021 08:00 - 16 minutes - 22.1 MBMaking the Case Part I: Why Diversity is Good For Business What You Will Learn: Why it is important to examine why Diversity is good for business, just as we examine the benefits of all the other business decisions we make Why the first component of why diversity is good for business is the moral implications of increased Diversity How studies have shown that the top 25% racially and ethnically diverse companies are 36% more likely to outperform less diverse companies in financial per...
Episode 96: Let's Create Shared Meaning: Defining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, with Sara Taylor
September 01, 2021 08:00 - 8 minutes - 12.3 MBWhat You Will Learn: What possible reasons may be contributing to so many people asking Sara and her team at deepSEE Consulting for help defining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Why it is especially important to have a shared clear, defined meaning around the important concepts of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion How the team at deepSEE Consulting define Diversity as “the differences that may make a difference” How any business with more than one person inherently has Diversity, and ...
Episode 95: Positive Bias and Affinity Bias, with Sara Taylor
August 25, 2021 08:00 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MBWhy the increased conversation around unconscious and implicit bias is significant, and why “affinity bias” (positive bias) is often overlooked but just as influential Sara shares a personal story from her daughter that illustrates the impact of positive and negative bias and responding to microaggression Why positive bias can create negative reactions, and why it is important to understand positive bias in our workplaces Why recognizing and responding to positive bias is an importan...
Episode 94: Cultural Filters: Part Two, with Namita Eveloy
August 11, 2021 08:00 - 28 minutes - 39 MBWhat You Will Learn: Namita shares how others’ filters lead to comments from them on her lack of a “foreign” accent, which belies the occasional language differences that she sometimes encounters even today How people often have the expectation that Namita, an Asian woman, will be passive or quiet, and how they are surprised when she steps outside their expectations How Namita has experienced expectations around her ability with technology and computer programming entirely because she i...
Episode 93: Cultural Filters: Part One, with Namita Eveloy
August 04, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutes - 35.8 MBWhat You Will Learn: How Namita’s unique experiences as an immigrant to the United States informs her work in the DEI space What Namita’s experiences were like after immigrating to Minnesota at the young age of eight years old, and how she first recognized differing cultural filters in others How Namita began making friends, and how she started to recognize differences in formalities in family life from what she was used to How Namita’s experiences with difference carried over to her ...
Episode 92: The Platinum Rule: More Effective Than the Golden Rule, with Sara Taylor
July 21, 2021 08:00 - 18 minutes - 25.5 MBWhat You Will Learn: How the Golden Rule of “do unto others as you would want them to do unto you” needs to give way to the Platinum Rule, “do unto others as they would want done unto them” How oftentimes people struggle to let go of the Golden Rule and embrace the Platinum Rule, especially in terms of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the workplace Which myths and misperceptions around the Golden Rule reinforce its existence as the default way to interact and often lead people astray ...
Episode 91: Generation Z in the Workplace, with Dr. Corey Seemiller & Dr. Meghan Grace
July 14, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MBGeneration Z in the Workplace What You Will Learn: How Meghan and Corey each found their way to generational research and began studying Generation Z in the workplace How Corey and Meghan each bring their own perspectives to the research due to belonging to different generational cohorts How the scope of Corey and Meghan’s work has grown over time, and why they have focused on qualitative data What common misperceptions exist around Generation Z in the workplace, and what key format...
Episode 90: Emotions at Work, with Sara Taylor
July 07, 2021 08:00 - 11 minutes - 16 MBWhat You Will Learn: Why the way in which leaders engage with emotions at work matters, and why a lack of emotional support can be damaging Why emotional support in the workplace is key to allowing team members to feel engaged and valued Why too few business leaders see feeling involved in emotions at work as part of their leadership role How research by Alisa Yu and Justin Berg at Stanford and Julian Zlatev at Harvard Business School shows that people need emotional support and ackno...
Episode 89: The Meritocracy Fallacy, with Sara Taylor
June 30, 2021 08:00 - 16 minutes - 22.4 MBWhat You Will Learn: How Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake, recently told Bloomberg that the company’s focus should be on “merit” rather than achieving diversity goals How the scientific data shows us that an organization that has a diverse workforce paired with greater cultural competence performs better than their peers Why the statement that the focus should be on “merit” over “diversity goals” is implicitly saying that white men are more capable than women and ethnic minorities Sar...
Episode 88: Clearing the Path: Culturally Competent Management, with Sara Taylor
June 23, 2021 08:00 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MBWhat You Will Learn: Why managers can’t effectively set their employees up for success if they can’t recognize inequity in the workplace Sara shares a story of a rockstar physical therapist who had to do lots of extra, unnecessary work because his manager wasn’t setting him up for success Why one theme that always comes up in workplace focus groups with employees from non-dominant groups is that they have to work much harder for less recognition Why managers or supervisors who can’t s...
Episode 87: The Evolution of DEI Work, Sara Taylor
June 16, 2021 08:00 - 6 minutes - 8.42 MBWhat You Will Learn: Why it is important to reflect on how DEI work has evolved in the workplace, from when intentional DEI work began to the present Why the intentionality to seek greater Diversity within the workforce is a more recent phenomenon, beginning with Affirmative Action How DEI work began with a focus on Diversity and equality primarily in recruitment, and how inclusion was added around 25 years ago How Equity is the most recent aspect of DEI work, and how it focuses on go...
Episode 86: Looking for a List?, with Sara Taylor
June 09, 2021 08:00 - 7 minutes - 10.3 MBWhat You Will Learn: Why many, many times over the years of her work, Sara has been asked for a “list”: an instruction list of what to do and what to say in given situations How this desire for a “list” can be likened to a “fast food drive-thru” approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion issues, attempting to shortcut the real equity work Why there is no magic list that offers a shortcut, and why ongoing development, recognizing issues and addressing them with new policies and processe...
Episode 85: Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn, with Sara Taylor
June 02, 2021 08:00 - 9 minutes - 13.1 MBWhat You Will Learn: How we are genetically programmed to deal with danger situations through the “fight, flight or freeze” response How marginalization in the workplace and minimization of differences cause people to often respond through the same survival mechanism Sara shares her personal experience of minimization and marginalization in the workplace when she was a young woman on a team of otherwise older men How another way people respond is through the “fight” response by pushin...
Episode 84: What Has Changed Since George Floyd: The New Landscape of DEI Work, with Dawn Cooper
May 26, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBWhat Has Changed Since George Floyd: The New Landscape of DEI Work What You Will Learn: What has changed since George Floyd was killed at the hands of Minneapolis police a year ago, and the global protests his killing sparked Dawn shares her thoughts on DEI practice today and on our society’s evolving views of equity and diversity Why it is crucial to remember that Diversity is not new, and how the murder of George Floyd opened people’s eyes to the reality that has been with us all al...
Episode 83: Universal Experience, with Sara Taylor
May 19, 2021 08:00 - 22 minutes - 31 MBWhat You Will Learn: How our unconscious minds work, and how thoughts begin in the unconscious mind before being passed to conscious awareness How the brain processes 11 million separate pieces of information in one second, and how 10,999,960 of those pieces of information are never passed to the conscious mind Why the unconscious mind is prone to making the assumption that our own personal experience is actually a universal experience How our lives are highly segregated, with people ...
Episode 82: Defending the Indefensible, with Sara Taylor
May 12, 2021 08:00 - 10 minutes - 14.9 MBWhat You Will Learn: How Polarization is the us/them stage of development, and why it often leads to defending the indefensible and hurtful actions of others Why Minimization sweeps differences under the rug, and why the language of minimization is a key component in defending the indefensible How the tragedy at the Unite the Right rally and counterprotest in Charlottesville is an example of defending the indefensible How the then-President of the United States used Minimization langu...
Episode 81: Making the Case for DEI, with Sara Taylor
May 05, 2021 08:00 - 18 minutes - 25.3 MBWhat You Will Learn: Why it is as important as ever to continue making the case for DEI in the workplace in today’s competitive environment How DEI work directly connects to business results, and how to use this information in your case for DEI work Why more racially diverse companies and teams tend to outperform companies that are more racially homogenous Why gender diversity in a company’s leadership team has a direct result in the value of the organization Why the increasing dive...