Inclusivity Means Nothing Without Safety

I’ve been reading Kim Scott’s book, Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to build a Kick-Ass Culture of Inclusivity, and think it should be required reading for people in MBA programs and for anyone aspiring to be a good leader or an ally. What I find compelling about this book is […]

LGBTQIA + Pride

LGBTQIA

Welcome to Pride month! I consider myself cisgender and heterosexual. My adjectives are she/her/hers. This is information I don’t typically need to share because I have heterosexual privilege. I’m not proud of it; I didn’t ask for it; it just is. Heterosexuals can exist in daily life with ease, a reality that our society doesn’t […]

National Military Appreciation Month

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My appreciation of the military has grown over the years. With National Military Appreciation Month, Memorial Day, Armed Forces Day and Military Spouse Appreciation Day all falling in May, I wanted to take this opportunity to chronicle my transformation. We can begin in the mid- ‘60s when I was a young girl and the U.S. […]

Biases You Don’t Know You Have

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While I was writing my book, Choosing Me Now, I discovered something that surprised me: we all have some sort of built-in need-strength bias. To understand what this means, you might want a rudimentary understanding of Choice Theory, the psychological theory developed by the late Dr. William Glasser. Choice Theory teaches that we are born […]