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

Where Are The Best Jobs? 5 Strategies for New Grads Landing Tech Careers

It’s job application season for those who are graduating this winter and spring.

The good news is newly minted students graduating now with undergraduate and graduate degrees are finding high paying jobs in engineering, computer and IT, plus transportation, according to new data from QRFY.

But for many women and those identifying as women, the work cultures of engineering and tech jobs are steeped in gender and racial bias.

But where there is disruption, there is opportunity to change the culture.

Career success, Career choices, Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonJanuary 12, 2024Women In Tech, careers, diversityComment

Come Celebrate 8 With Me: Free Birthday Concert for Women’s Equality on August 25

There’s a reason Marina Arsenijevic’s story is the longest in my book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and Why Women Will Take the Lead for (Everyone’s) Good. She’s the archetype Intentional Woman and the role model for Leadership Intentioning Tool #2: Dream UP, because if your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.

The SumGloria FeldtAugust 9, 2022Power Up Conference, Women's Equality Day, diversityComment

See Them, Hear Them: New CEO Aims For Media, Pop Culture To Drive Social Change

“What we don’t see, what we don’t hear, we cannot humanize,” says Nakisha M. Lewis, the new president and CEO of Breakthrough, a global nonprofit that uses the power of media, technology and popular culture to transform systems around gender, race, sexuality and immigrant rights.

North Star: Soledad O’Brien On Listening, Point of View, Stories, Fairness and Values

“As an organization and an individual, you have to stick to your North Star,” Soledad O’Brien, founder and CEO of Soledad O’Brien Productions, told a virtual convening of two cohorts of Take The Lead’s 50 Women in Journalism Can Change the World.

“The story of one’s arc of one’s life is to figure out what your values are,” says O’Brien, award-winning journalist, speaker, author and philanthropist who anchors and produces the Hearst Television political magazine program, “Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien.”

True Believer: CEO, Founder on Guiding Leaders Through A DEI Reckoning

From the age of five, Jennifer Brown was performing. On stage, she was singing and dancing as a child growing up in Southern California in a musical family, then as an adult pursuing a singing career.

“I love the adrenaline, I love being under pressure,” says Brown, the CEO and founder of Jennifer Brown Consulting, a global strategic leadership and diversity consulting firm that coaches business leaders on critical issues of talent and workplace strategy. “Which is good because I have three 90-minute keynotes online today,” Brown says.

Where Bluebirds Fly: How (and Why) We Build LGBTQ Pride in the Workplace and Beyond

Gloria FeldtJune 10, 2019diversity, inclusion, Leadership, LGBTQ, pride

"Know Your Why:" Powerful Women Make The Case For Purpose

The power of women leaders across generations and alliances was on prominent display.

Inspirational Role ModelsMichele WeldonMay 10, 2019Congress, diversity, equality, Michele Weldon, women leadersComment

Wait Is Over: Get Over Gender Fatigue And Move to Parity

Gender fatigue is a real thing. It’s when administrators, boards, C-suite types and those in charge of hiring claim that pushing for gender parity is exhausting.

ParityMichele WeldonFebruary 1, 2019Change, diversity, gender equality, gender parity, Michele WeldonComment

You Can Go Back: CAO Boomerangs To Bright Tech Future For Many

Comebacks are a good thing.

Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonJanuary 28, 2019Change, diversity, equality, female entrepreneurs, Michele Weldon, TechComment

See Jane: Changing The Stories in Media To Reflect Real Life

The drive to change who is seen, heard and represented in television, movies, print, broadcast and digital media was the goal of the recent See Jane Salon in Chicago.

Changing the Power Par...Michele WeldonDecember 14, 2018diversity, equality, media, Michele Weldon, representationComment