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Useful Content to Help Your OrganizationFrom “Face to Face” to Live Virtual
Rapid transition from “Face to Face” to Live Virtual Necessity is the mother of invention As leaders and planners throughout the world respond to the spreading coronavirus outbreak by cancelling and postponing critical events and training. Illustra is helping its...
Corporate Culture ISN’T Universal
Many might like to think that terms like “corporate,” “respectful” or “professional” are universally understood and defined terms. But, in the era of mass globalization and transformations in employee demographics, nothing could be further from the truth. Corporate...
Representation in Literature: American Dirt Controversy Broken Down
American Dirt is a newly released book that has caused interesting public discussion. Author Jeanine Cummins wrote a fiction novel based on a Mexican woman’s migration journey to the United States with her son. Cummins - a white writer with no personal connection to...
Super Bowl 2020: A Multicultural Look at this year’s coveted ads.
Super Bowl Sunday has become known as one of the great US American pastimes. Along with the tradition tied to this event comes an immense economic opportunity. Despite the race-based controversy regarding the NFL the past few years, it remains the most lucrative...
Get out of the Desert: How to Move Forward with DEI
Diversity issues impose themselves on your already overworked life, and you’re now expected to learn more about interculturalism. When will it all end? Predictably, you want to throw up your hands in dismay and give up because you can’t know everything there is to know and do everything that needs to be done.
It’s okay to be imperfect.
So, what do you do when you see a heaping helping of human interaction issues being added to your already full plate of workday tasks?
Turn Marginalization into Mattering
Everyone – at some time or another – has felt the harsh effects of being rejected or left out. The ten-dollar, corporate world word for it? Marginalization.
No More Walking on Eggshells: How to Have Constructive Conversations
In order to dig deep in DEI work and change your workplace for the long-term, communication is key. But isn’t just beating around the bush, or sweeping it under the rug enough? Who wants drama in the workplace, really?
Tools for Self-Awareness: Head, Heart and Hand
While new customers and marketplaces are asking you to change, it doesn't happen overnight. Change is a process of reflection, self-awareness, openness and patience to get to where we all need to be in terms of true inclusion. To add one more tool in that DEI toolbox,...
Why DEI? Changing World, Changing Customers.
When it comes to Diversity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts, you might be asking: Why should my workplace change?
The simple answer? Because the world is changing! If you don’t update along with it, you’ll get left behind.
One major thing that changing? The actual customers!
The Power of Language: The Why Behind the Words
It may feel overwhelming that new terms are entering the workplace, but they are also a reflection of the rising diversity within the business world.
Positive Thinking Part 5: Trust – A Global Team Element
In this last of five presentations on positive thinking, you’ll learn a powerful tool to affect your personal and organizational mindset: Trust. What makes effective teams? Inclusion, respect, gratitude, appreciation... but above all else, it's trust. Being an...
Poet and Politician for Peace: An Ecuadorian Politician and Poet presides over the UN General Assembly
Politics has historically been a male-dominated sphere. However, even if at a less than ideal pace, women are winning their seat at the table. In June 2018, another large success was won. Foreign Minister María Fernandez Espinosa Garcés of Ecuador became the...
