Podcasts

Gena Cox, Ph.D. discusses her new book that provides powerful insights for leaders to drive inclusion: “Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel.” In this conversation, Gena stresses the value of human relationships, and how organizations have vast opportunities to optimize the human experiences for their employees. Gena reveals how a system that doesn’t embrace inclusion will lose employees who don’t feel included. Listen in for how curiosity can help your team feel even more connected.

Live by the platinum rule of treating others as to how others want to be treated, which is one of the problems leaders, and business owners have. They often assume that others want to be treated the same as them.

In this episode, Dr. Gena Cox shares why respect is the key to making an organization attractive to new talents. People want to be seen, heard, and valued. Respect is really the driver of employee engagement and satisfaction that is likely to cause employees in your organization to stay and to be an attractor to others who might consider the organization.

Dr. Cox discusses at what a truly competent and relevant leader does when it comes to DEI. We also talk about ways to think about driving systemic change in an organization that is sustainable and meaningful.

Listen in for compassionate, insightful, and practical advice to help all of us navigate conversations about creating inclusion in the workplace. Join us as we discuss:

• How the root cause of the failure of most DEI initiatives is avoidance driven by a lack of skills on the part of even the most well-meaning leaders:
• How respect is the opposite of grandstanding and is the foundation of our only viable path forward to create inclusive workplaces
• How to have respectful relationships with your employees even when difficult conversations and decisions are needed

In this vodcast of THE BRAND CALLED YOU, the author of LEADING INCLUSION shares her idea of leadership.