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?
Now it’s time to look ahead. I have five items on my wish list for social justice next year, for all of us. See if you can add some of your own.
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Brandon Danowsky is this week’s guest blogger. He writes of the conflict between his Latino and White identities.
Jessica Kanzler writes about her experience coming out as a trans person and how she has navigated awkward dinner conversations.
We explore why colorblindness is in effect racism, making us feel good about the world and ourselves but doing nothing to create meaningful change.
Gratitude makes sense of the past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for future. We celebrate expressions of gratitude and hopes for peace.
Our online racial justice training program is open. Read on to find out more about Pathfinders: Leadership for Racial and Social Justice.
In this post, I’ll share my thoughts on how to bridge the divide with the 47% who voted for Trump.
Why do we seesaw so much in American political life? What happens that people want to change direction?
Mark is that remarkably rare White person willing to take on true allyship. This is Part 2 of our conversation with him.
Mark is that remarkably rare White person willing to take on true allyship. He talks about his continuing commitment to racial justice.
First Lady Michelle Obama proclaimed to an adoring crowd, “when they go low, we go high.” Find out way of going high when you want to go low.
Dr Barbara Love speaks about envisioning a world that benefits everyone, the power of transformation, and the plantation’s money box.
Amy Hageman writes about racialized trauma and healing. She courageously speaks out about what many feel, yet are afraid to even think.
How do you apologize for mistakes in a racially charged world? Learn from Amy Porterfield as she navigates the path of racial understanding.
Jean lists steps on how to address racism by effectively talking to others who think differently than you.
If we want to overcome impostor syndrome, we must learn to remove our internal barriers and negative self-talk.
What is a microaggression, and how is it different from racism? This blog will help you understand the implications of these words.
People want to engage in racial dialogue that promotes equality and inclusion.
Amy Hageman shares what inspired her to speak honestly about race for 30 days on Facebook and why it was hard to talk about race.
What does it mean to develop an awareness of racism, starting to see things differently, interpret history differently, identify causes differently?
Amy Porterfield's honest and difficult journey with her commitment to justice, her missteps and along the way, the model of a very public apology.
Eliminating fear is not a desirable goal. Rather, the question is how to move ahead in spite of the fear.
Carole Marmell talks about participating in change by joining a small band of committed citizens to take down Confederate monuments in their hometown.
How can one person make a difference? Macro action-oriented approaches: protesting, voting, writing to members of Congress are all viable options.
How to refer to various ethnic/racial groups? This is my deep-dive on the many labels we use.
This week’s blog is about the momentous change I have witnessed over the last two weeks in White people’s awareness of systemic racism.
What is antiracism? Here's a curated list of reliable sources of information on race and racism in the workplace
Struggling with how to respond to White fragility & privilege? Amy Hageman’s post will help you understand what happens behind the scenes & what works.
George Floyd’s murder has spurred protests for justice nationally and internationally with a call for fundamental change.
