The 1863 Emancipation Proclamation took two long years to take effect in Texas on June 19, 1865. It took another 156 years for the US to officially commemorate the end of slavery by making Juneteenth a federal holiday. By so doing, the [...]
Black History Month To honor the contribution of the Black community is to acknowledge not only its resilience but also the systemic hurdles that painfully remain. In observance of Black History Month, Amanda Gorman’s poetry connects us to this perspective and the action we are called to. [...]
Rethinking The Way We Work To attract and keep talent, organizations must design ways of working that satisfy employee needs for autonomy, flexibility, and balance. Employees are looking for flexibility, autonomy, balance – a say in the way they work. [...]
The First Five Steps of Your DE&I Journey As leaders look to make right on their promises to actively improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in the workplace, they must do what many of us find uncomfortable: start a journey without fully knowing the final destination or [...]
Change Starts With Us How listening galvanized our organization into allyship and action The recent consecration of Juneteenth as a national holiday is an important acknowledgement of the past and a reminder of its implications. Though there is much more to be done to dismantle systemic racism and [...]
Stop Asian Hate Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have been the victims of discrimination since arriving in the United States. For more than 150 years, the AAPI community has suffered the myriad and harmful effects of bigotry including demeaning slurs, verbal and physical assaults, and killings at [...]
Four Day Founder Hackathon Nurtures Budding BIPOC Entrepreneurs There is promise in new ideas and an energy to the budding entrepreneur that is inspiring to be around. We are honored to have the opportunity to witness and mentor that energy in budding BIPOC entrepreneurs through our sponsorship [...]
50 percent of employees leave their company to get away from their bosses.
A Times investigation reveals missed signals, slow responses and a continuing underestimation of the seriousness of a campaign to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.
In the face of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we need a new radical humanism, says Tim Leberecht. For the self-described "business romantic," this means designing organizations and workplaces that celebrate authenticity instead of efficiency and questions instead of answers. Leberecht proposes four (admittedly subjective) principles for building beautiful organizations.