Inclusion Uncomplicated: A Transformative Guide To Simplify DEI

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This week we welcomed Shari Dunn to Intentional Conversations!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM SHARI:

“I wouldn’t take anything for the journey now.” -Maya Angelou

  • My background as an attorney, teacher, and journalist brings depth and multi-approach to DEI consulting. This comes into play every day.
  • New book, Qualified, Black women are the canaries in the coal mine and they have been signaling that something is wrong for a long time.
  • There’s too much trend, this isn’t happening in isolation.
  • Inhospitable for Black women, means it’s going to be inhospitable for many other people.
  • Competency checking, name it, describe it and what to do about it.
  • There are people in the pipeline, but the pipeline is blocked by competency checking.
  • Imposter syndrome is the symptom of competency checking.
  • Youth and competency checking. Try not to put the burden on Black people. Structures and institutions should change, show kids that this isn’t a reflection on them so they can see it and know it’s not about them. Give them a historical context.
  • Must pull apart these large terms to get the appropriate solutions. Not surface level solutions.
  • You can’t outlaw the word Diversity and Equity.
  • Make the unconscious, conscious: Until we make unconscious ways, conscious, we will say its fate.
  • Need to remove the barriers so people can naturally move forward, and systems can change.
  • People are rightfully nervous or fearful because the mindset now is that people want to say it’s fate, and not make the unconscious, conscious.
  • The difference now is that more White people are seeing it, there’s an opportunity to stop the mindset.
  • Storytelling and messaging is key. People on this side have not been very clear. Don’t want people hung up on the word, describe the term so people understand.
  • To have a diverse environment, you must go slow to go fast.

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