Jean Latting
Jean interviews Craig Dowden, author of A Time to Lead: Mastering Your Self… So You Can Master Your World and positive psychology coach.
Jean Latting
Jean speaks with Malia Lazu about DEI in banking.
Jean Latting
Jean interviews Minal Bopaiah, author of Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives. She has much to say about the long and complicated path for DEI.
Jean Latting
What do these two historically oppressed groups, Holocaust Museum Houston and the Kinsey Collection of African American Art, have in common?
Jean Latting
Jean speaks with Dr. Myrtle Bell about the enduring value and strength of diversity.
Jean Latting
Houston mourns Rev. William Lawson, founder and pastor emeritus of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church.
Jean Latting
Lisa Fain speaks with Jean about the growth potential for mentors and mentees when they truly speak with, listen to, and respect each other’s personhood.
Jean Latting
Instead of being shamed for an error you made, you were supported in redressing the situation. How did it affect your sense of responsibility and ownership?
Jean Latting
In this podcast, Hamza Khan and Jean Latting engage in an animated conversation about leadership, resilience, belonging, and burnout.
Jean Latting
Jean addresses an issue in publishing her new book where she was confronted with the highly offensive misdeeds of one of her heroes. Read how she worked her way through it.
Jean Latting
Amri Johnson has a few provocative things to say about the current state of efforts toward diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Jean Latting
Jean sums up her history of optimism, the arc of social justice, and the deliberate steps one has to take to keep an eye on the prize.
Jean Latting
Jean discusses transitional justice and the race class narrative: what works, what doesn’t, and how to stay the course.
Jean Latting
Given our country’s long and difficult history with inclusiveness, Jean decided to sit down and write out her thoughts – during this year’s Black History Month.
Jean Latting
How do you self-identify? Our identities affect our allyship with those who are being marginalized because of one or more of their identities.
Jean Latting
Jean interviews Daniel Oestreich, co-author of two books on what to say to someone, especially people in the workplace, when you are afraid to say it.
Jean Latting
How do you even begin to articulate a goal that lights you up, not to mention working toward it? Jean has some thoughts.
Leading Consciously
We envision a world of peace, mutual support, and mutual responsibility, including intolerance for hunger, climate action, responsible news outlets, and compassionate leadership.
Jean Latting
Nina proposes susceptibility to harmful radiation and absorption of Vitamin D as the simple explanation for why people have different skin colors, a product of evolutionary adaptation.
Jean Latting
Jean started listening to Steve Kerr, coach of the Golden State Warriors, honing in on his leadership skills. She was blown away by his insights.
Jean Latting
Dr. Pratt learned how to follow the whisper of the spirit, work within and without the system, address racism and sexism head on, and promote impactful diversity initiatives.
Jean Latting
Brain fog is a trap we fall into when our emotional reaction to a negative experience keeps us frozen. If we don’t have tools to keep us moving, we get stuck where it hurts the most.
Jean Latting
In today’s world, leadership is not about telling people what to do. Rod McCowan trains leaders to consider moral principles when making decisions.
Jean Latting
Studies show the benefits of affirming our value, yet we hesitate to share these affirmations with others.
Jean Latting
Victor Varnado, born with albinism, chose to beat the odds stacked against him in life by using his comedic skills to pursue his dreams.
Mike Todt
The Gross National Happiness Index exists, and it works in Bhutan as well as other countries. Mike writes of his upcoming visit to Bhutan to see this phenomenon in action.
Jean Latting
Sherra Aguirre speaks with Jean about the leadership role she took on in her community to promote changing the typical African American diet.
Jean Latting
In June of 2023, the Supreme Court ruled against the use of affirmative action in college admission.
Jean Latting
Ilana Redstone says the Certainty Trap happens when we have moral principles we are 100% sure of and shut out any objections to the contrary.
Carole Marmell
We realized my brother was gay when his photo was on the cover of Time magazine titled “The Homosexual in America”.
Jean Latting
Elizabeth Melendez Fisher Good was burned out and ended up with a mission to address sex trafficking.
Jean Latting
Research shows that groups who put in the effort to welcome diversity and promote inclusiveness may have more conflicts but are also more productive and innovative.
Jean Latting
Joanna Cea and Jess Rimington wrote Beloved Economies: Transforming How We Work, that invites us to reimagine work and reimagine capitalism.
Jean Latting
The most successful people in any field know how to seek the expertise of other successful people in order to improve themselves and their performance.
Jean Latting
Dr. Melissa Ochoa has a few things to say about the word Latinx; mainly, she doesn’t like it. For one thing, it doesn’t work in Spanish. Hear what she proposes instead.
Carole Marmell
Unsung heroes are all around us. Many were women; in many cases, their work was known but men took the credit.
Jean Latting
After George Floyd's murder, Ronald McDonald House-Houston wanted to make a difference for their staff and also their families across the world.
Jean Latting
Journalist Talia Lavin began a social experiment aimed at understanding and exposing the White nationalist movement.
Jean Latting
What happens when you lead with love? Helen Stagg talks about how making change starts with honest, respectful, direct, and open conversations.
Jean Latting
What is the culture – police and American – that allows this to continue? What are the obstacles? What can we as individuals do about it?
Jean Latting
When disaster inevitably strikes, what is your response? Wait for someone to fix it, dwell on the unfairness of it all? What do you need to move ahead?
Jean Latting
It’s the new year, and we all have good intentions. What about our determination to stop procrastinating now?
Jean Latting
May all your tomorrows be filled with peace, love, and joy.
Jean Latting
What if you had no inner critic telling you you’re just not good enough? What if you learned to silence your inner critic? What could you accomplish?
Carole Marmell
To some Native American peoples, it’s a “day of mourning”; how can we still practice Thanksgiving as a day of gratitude?
Jean Latting
Ethical behavior in corporations include anticorruption, sustainability, human rights, culture and behavior, and employee and stakeholder engagement.
Jean Latting
The polarization in this country has grown so vast that words we use in common do not mean the same things. Is there any hope for bridging the divide?
One young lawyer’s struggle to be accepted for who she is, why ADHD reveals a racial divide, and how to make differences work for everyone.
This week Jean interviews Danielle Murphy, LCSW SEP, as they discuss the body’s role in overcoming trauma.
The R-word can set nerves on fire. How do we talk about racism without engaging others' emotions and shutting down their ability to think clearly?
Brandon discusses stereotyping, ostracism, effemiphobia -phenomenon of people not wanting to be associated with the negative parts of themselves & BLM.
Jean talks about relative advantages of implementing policy changes through an incremental approach versus a confrontational, direct action strategy.
Words mean different things in different contexts. How are you to know if the words you are using form a connection – or hinder it?
When self-doubt threatens our purpose and we feel incapable of overcoming, what can we do about it? Jean’s story is of overcoming self-sabotage.
Understanding high and low context is essential to communicating effectively in conversations.
Harnessing our internal strength in battle, we will combat American authoritarianism. Peter posits you cannot fight power without finding your own.
Angela Blanchard built a solid foundation for BakerRipley by not just doing food but building platforms that make it possible to do good.
How many articles or narratives will it take for Whites to understand the world that Blacks live with daily? The key is to read less and listen.
Who makes a better leader, an introvert or an extrovert? Jean interviews Carol Stewart, who has some unexpected things to say about it.
Well-meaning people adopt ideals of justice - including punitive and restorative. How do we live those ideals?
Dr. Thomas Keith's recent book, The Bro Code, identifies ways in which men are raised that impede their development and relationships with others.
A list of resources to start you on the road to knowledge and understanding about anti-Black racism.
Charles speaks about exploring generational identity and professional lives of Black women. No one has heard any of their stories.
States around the country are banning lessons on systemic racism and critical race theory. Many on both sides having no real idea of what it means.
Four organizational leaders share how they used our Pathfinders and DEI training to become successful inclusive leaders.
From a sense of “otherness” as an Indian in London, Sunita Sehmi developed a coaching practice on belonging as part of people’s needs in the workplace
How do we find the courage? Would we have had the courage to provide Frederick Douglass with false papers, risking our lives to save his?
In these perilous times, we all are familiar with anxiety. As an emotion, it’s universal. How can we tame this anxiety and build resilience?
Jean and Barry Regan explore how your understanding of your own culture affects the way you perceive the world.
Guest blogger this week describes the eye-opening moment when she went from judgmental to grateful and makes a good argument in favor of acceptance.
A community in Fourth Ward, Freedmen’s Town, became the community for former slaves from all over that part of Texas.
Jessica describes the moment when she went from judgmental to grateful, confronts her biases, and makes a good argument in favor of acceptance.
Change is hard. But to create change, one first has to see the structure that keeps the current system in place.
Why do people bully each other? Wendy Harpur, a HR professional, has written on LinkedIn about workplace bullying and talks about her own experience.
In Part 2 of our reflection on anti-Asian bias, we bring you Samantha Wu’s thoughtful post on her personal response to the Atlanta massacre.
Carole Marmell writes about how to stand with Asian Americans: what to know & show support to bridge difference.
In this guest blog post, Jessica Kanzler shares how in her experience with higher education, unconscious bias is more subtle than overt.
Today’s blog post speaks to three strategies you can use to stick to the changes you want to make.
Cindy Wigglesworth deep dives into spiral dynamics; what it represents, how it addresses life stages, and what it means for the rekindling of hope.
Cindy Wigglesworth talks about how she developed a skills assessment for spiritual intelligence. Also her journey in personal growth and development.
Jean describes the private troubles that resulted from the raging storm and the implications this has for public issues that we need to consider.
Any conversation must include clarifying what we mean. Check the Glossary for commonly used terms in the racial and social justice sphere.
Want to know how to become effective at Intervention and Allyship? Learn how to create and maintain a more inclusive work environment.
Some signs make you look like an empathetic person. Find out more from leading Consciously what happens when you do and don't show empathy.
What did Martin Luther King stand for? Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. discusses the watering down of his message to make it more palatable to people in power.
Learn how Cherry Steinwender went from picking cotton and cleaning houses to co-founding the Center for the Healing of Racism.
Read about the journey of Rev. Dr. Jim Lockard in LESSONS FROM THE DEATH OF MY CHILD, a blog about grieving deeply and deriving comfort.
