Religion At Work: How To Offer Peaceful Inclusion In Workplace Now

Navigating religious beliefs in the workplace can be difficult, divisive and challenging. This is especially true now with strong voices advocating to resolve global humanitarian issues, and hate erupting in speech and actions in many scenarios.

While aiming to project a sense of inclusion, it is also urgent for organization leaders to mitigate and prevent any disruptive practices that could derail meetings, conferences or even virtual gatherings. It is possible to be inclusive and not provocative while accommodating religious practices and beliefs at work. It is also the law.

Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonJune 21, 2024religion, diversity, InclusionComment

Joy, Music, Inclusion & Power: Sweet Honey In The Rock Inspires at Power Up Concert

Fifty and 10.

Celebrating 50 years in the music industry, the eight-member mostly all female group (seven of the eight identify as women), Grammy-nominated ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock honors the joy of creativity and commitment to inclusion with their performance at the Power Up Concert 2024.

The concert and conference herald Take the Lead’s 10 years of effort to engage, support, train and uplift women and men with the goal of parity in leadership across all sectors.

Go For Gold: Team USA Women Aim For Equity Wins At Tokyo Olympics

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics kicking off this month are notable not just for what is missing—the crowds in the stands, many athletes who tested positive for COVID and Sha’Carri Richardson due to a positive marijuana test—but what gains have been achieved for competitors identifying as female.

How To Fight Hate: CEO, Founder On The Positive Way Forward Now

Dr. Joynicole Martinez does not want to talk about her many advanced degrees. For the record, the founder and CEO of The Alchemist Agency has seven. Two bachelors degrees, three masters degrees and two doctorates.

Martinez wants to talk about cultural change, racial, gender and economic equity and her mission to disrupt white nationalism and supremacy, racism, sexism and social injustice.

Nonprofits So White: New Report on Lack of Inclusion Offers Strategies

Nonprofits in this country are failing on their diversity and inclusion efforts, even as their missions address social justice and fairness issues, according to a new report of more than 5,000 workers in nonprofits.

“The sad — but unsurprising — truth is that people of color and whites have a different set of experiences in nonprofit organizations. This gap in how professionals experience their workplaces — whether they receive mentorship, are granted promotions, or face microaggressions — is partially reflected in what we call the ‘white advantage,’” write Frances Kunreuther and Sean Thomas-Breitfeld, Co-Directors of the Building Movement Project, and authors of the report, Race to Lead Revisited: Obstacles and Opportunities in Addressing the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap.

Sizing Up Inclusive Needs: Co-Founder and Designer Makes It Fit

One size does not fit all.

Tanya Zhang is filling a fashion void with her new clothing line of shirts. But it is not for herself or other women, but for her spouse, father, and other Asian American Pacific Islander men who swear their shirts don’t fit.

Fierce Is The Word: President’s 5 Predictions for 2020 Workplaces

Stacey Engle, president of Fierce Conversations, understands perfectly the double meaning of the word. “Fierce to me is what you think of when someone is fiercely loyal, passionate, caring, courageous and getting to the heart of something.” She adds, “Someone can also interpret fierce as aggressive or too intense.” The two interpretations offer the opportunity to address what it means to be effective.

Same Old Song? Women In Music Win Awards But Still Face Opportunity Gaps

Taylor Swift had it right. In her performance at the recent American Music Awards, where she won Artist of The Decade as well as Artist of The Year, she sang, “The Man,” with particularly fitting lyrics. “If I was the man, I’d be the man,” she sang, surrounded by a choir of young girls. Alas, she is not. And the gender gap in all music is wide.

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