Interfaith Business Network Podcast: Recent Episodes
Interfaith Business Network
Learn more about how business leaders and students can create workplaces and communities that are diverse, welcoming, and inclusive to all, with your hosts Breanne White (Wharton) and Angie Luo (Marshall School of Business). Follow us on Twitter (@interfaithbiz) and visit our website to learn more about how join the network on Slack (interfaithbusinessnetwork.com)!
In this episode, we feature ourselves! Tune in to hear about the interfaith experiences that led us to found the Interfaith Business Network and this podcast, as well as what’s next for both.
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If feelings of belonging are the metric of success for DEI efforts in both academic and corporate settings, what are the skillsets that people need to have so we can all finally truly see, appreciate, and celebrate the beauty in our differences?
In this episode, we feature Eddie Banks-Crosson, Director of the Office of Student Life for the Wharton MBA Program. Eddie shares how his intersectional identities as a gay, black, Christian man show up in his personal and professional relationships and interactions. He speaks about the importance of honoring each others’ identities and creating spaces for students to be able to be themselves, such as Conversations that Matter at Wharton, and he recommends Ramy on Hulu.
In this episode, we feature Parth Bhansali, an Interfaith Youth Core alum, Regional Head of Sales at Groupon, and Real Estate Broker, for best tips and practices about managing people in a way that is inclusive of religious, spiritual, and secular identities.
Connect with Parth on LinkedIn or by joining the Interfaith Business Network Slack community and LinkedIn group.
In this episode, May Mowzoon, a lawyer at Intel, and Tasvir Singh Virk (or Taz), a Client Security Technologies Customer Engineering Manager at Intel, talk about their faith backgrounds as members of the Baha’i and Sikh faiths, respectively.
May describes how the faith-friendly culture at Intel inspired and empowered her to found the Baha’i employee resource group (ERG), and May and Taz conclude the episode sharing what it takes to be successful as managers and colleagues in religiously diverse, global workplaces.
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Breanne and Angie share what’s in store for Season 2 of the Interfaith Business Network (IBN) Podcast. Learn more about IBN on our website, follow us on Twitter, and join the network on Slack and LinkedIn!
In this episode, Ambassador Sujay Johnson Cook shares how her intersectional identities as a Black, Christian woman have contributed to her personal and professional success as a trail-blazing interfaith leader with global influence and impact.
Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook,or Ambassador Sujay as she prefers to be called, is an award-winning filmmaker, diplomat, faith leader, and entrepreneur. She has served as the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, chaplain of the NYCPD, and faith advisor on Clinton's “President’s Initiative on Race”. She also founded the Global Black Women’s Chamber of Commerce.
Follow Ambassador Sujay’s work on DrSujay.live, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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In this episode, David Brenner and Linda Kinstler discuss why religion and faith matter in the tech sector and provide advice for technologists and business leaders who wish to build ethical products and a future that is good for everyone.
David Brenner is Board chair of AI and Faith, who seeks to promote winsome engagement between Christians, other faiths and the broader culture through conference programs and writing. David enjoys reading and reviewing a wide range of books, and cultivates a four season garden.
Linda Kinstler is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian Long Read, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and more. In July, her opinion essay titled, “Can Silicon Valley Find God?” was featured in the New York Times, in which Linda explores the responsibility of technologists to embed ethics and values into the technologies they create, and the ways in which religion is either ignored, glorified, or misconstrued in the workplace. Linda’s other piece referenced during the conversation can be found on Protocol here.
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We also invite you to a professional development lab called Engaging Religious Diversity in the Workplace: Building Your Interfaith Strategy and Skillset on November 8th from 12-4pm CT. Use the code from Episode 3 for a special Interfaith Business Network $10 discount.
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Why are interfaith employee resource groups (ERGs) important in the workplace, in addition to individual faith ERGs, and how can you start one? In this episode, Jonathon Felter (Twitter), Farah Siddiqui (Salesforce), and Marsie Sweetland (Equinix) share their perspectives about the importance of interfaith employee resource groups and unpack the challenges interfaith leaders at work may face. They also give tips for anyone wanting to start an interfaith ERG.
Jonathan Felter has spent his career building business and campaigns in the Sports Marketing and Media fields. He is currently a Senior Client Partner at Twitter.
Farah Siddiqui has been working in the start-up/tech space for over 10 years. She is now blessed to be part of Salesforce in the Trailhead Global Operations Team, leading Trailhead M&A (mergers & acquisition) initiatives as well as program and process improvements. She is also the Co-Founder and Global President of Faithforce - the Interfaith Employee Resource Group (aka Equality Group) at Salesforce, which seeks to support, foster understanding of, and celebrate global faith diversity.
Marsie Sweetland is an experienced Client Executive and Founder of FaithConnect at Equinix.
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Why does religious equity, diversity, and inclusion at work matter? In this episode, Brian Grim, Founding President of the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation, and Craig Carter, Product Manager and Corporate Culture and Inclusion Driver at Intel, explore the importance of religious freedom and inclusion at work.
The Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (or RFBF for short) is an organization dedicated to educating the global business community, policymakers, non-government organizations and consumers about the positive power that faith — and religious freedom for all (including those with no religious faith) — has on business and the economy. RFBF produces expert research, training programs, practical business tools and interfaith dialogue convenings to promote Freedom of Religion or Belief for all people. RFBF has also developed the Religious Equity Diversity and Inclusion Index (or REDI Index) that ranks corporations based on how much attention they give to religious identity in the workplace.
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Breanne and Angie share the purpose of the Interfaith Business Network (IBN) Podcast. Learn more about IBN on our website, follow us on Twitter, and join the network on Slack and LinkedIn!