Moving From DEI Awareness to DEI Action in Your Organization with Stacey Gordon, Founder of Rework Work (#19)

In today's job market, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have become key tools for recruitment and retention. However, an organization's existing policies and procedures may be the biggest obstacles to implementing a meaningful program. To help you break through those barriers, we've called in workplace culture consultant, author, and executive advisor on diversity strategies, Stacey Gordon, the founder of Rework Work.

Highlights

[3:32] Obstacles in HR’s way

[7:03] When a diversity commitment doesn’t get authentic follow-through

[11:35] The “why” of your DEI initiative

[16:37] Analyzing survey data and taking action on it

[23:10] What’s your relationship with the CEO like?

[27:12] Ideas for other ways of gathering data on DEI attitudes

[30:30] How one company took a step in the right direction after a negative first experience

[33:33] Unconscious bias

[37:22] Problematic core values and culture words

[39:44] How can an organization truly come together when there are so many perspectives to consider?

[43:31] Organizational “processes” that need to have better DEI consideration

Guest Bio

Stacey Gordon, Founder, Rework Work

Stacey Gordon is a workplace culture consultant, keynote speaker, author, facilitator of learning, and executive advisor on diversity strategies. It is her goal to disrupt the way employers interact with employees. She expects leaders to lead and works to help employees belong. She has worked with people managers and executive leaders from companies such as American Express, ADP, Kia Motors, Hewlett Packard, GE, The Obama Foundation, and many others to deliver education, coaching, and consulting that supports organizational change and leadership development in furtherance of creating inclusive workplace cultures.

Stacey’s book, “UNBIAS: Addressing Unconscious Bias at Work” debuted at No. 1 on Amazon’s Hot New Release list while her unconscious bias course on the LinkedIn learning platform was the No. 1 most-watched course of 2021 and has been translated into several languages. Her audience is quickly approaching 2 million unique learners and Stacey has been recognized as a passionate supporter of DEI by Forbes, Pepperdine University, and LinkedIn. She earned her MBA from Pepperdine University Business School and her SHRM-SCP certification, as well as the SHRM Inclusive Workplace Culture Credential.

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceygordon/

https://www.reworkwork.com/

https://Learn.reworkwork.com

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