Hot Topics in Today's Diverse Workplace

[inclusion works]: Inclusion is the Key to Increased Productivity and Improved Relationships with Coworkers and Customers

• FROM MAINSTREAM TO MULTI-STREAM^TM
  Productive Clarity—Beyond Conformity to Collaboration
  Encourage people to perform instead of conform! Recognize SUBTLE BIASES and how they come through in what you say and do. Discover diversity trends, and use them to your strategic advantage. Create a business setting that views inclusion as an asset. Move from MAINSTREAM TO MULTI-STREAM^TM by exchanging ideas and perceptions in a culturally-dynamic business environment.
  
  
• LIP SERVICE OR LIBERATING HARD TALK?
  Practical Courage—Beyond Caution to Candor
  Learn from negative feedback, and take 100% responsibility for your contribution to the outcome of any relationship. Realize you can't talk your way out of what you behave yourself into! Make UNCONVENTIONAL CHOICES that demonstrate your commitment to move forward. Risk acceptance, and have the HARD CONVERSATIONS that build bridges.
  
  
• "THE UNITED WORKPLACE OF AMERICA"
  Powerful Connection—Beyond Co-Existence to Community
  Value the experiences of others (and share your own) to create MUTUAL RESPECT. Reduce fear from cultural misperceptions, and generate new ways to get better results. Trust that others have ideas as good as yours. Include people you would have previously ignored. Transform UNINTENTIONAL OFFENSES into opportunities for renewed trust. Communicate clearly, and take a constructive approach to resolving cross-cultural conflict.

The 'R' Word: Succeeding in Spite of Racism

• RACISM: RANDOM ACTS OF BLINDNESS
  Face the Facts That Define the Challenge
  
RACISM EXISTS. It affects people from all racial groups by slowing productivity, eroding trust, and reinforcing stereotypes. REMOVE THE BLINDERS that keep you in denial. Learn to recognize individual and institutional racism so you can fight it effectively.


• EXAMINE YOUR ASSUMPTIONS
  Face Yourself and Conquer the Enemy Within
  
Recognize your SUBTLE BIASES about people from other groups. Discover that sometimes we're our own worst enemy. Understand INTERNALIZED OPPRESSION, and learn three quick ways to keep it under control.


• EVERYDAY HEROES
  Face the Future Using Lessons from the Past
  When you HONOR THE ANCESTORS, you identify the best of yourself. Take 100% RESPONSIBILITY for healing from racism, and achieving your goals..
  
  

CUSTOMIZING OPTIONS
This keynote consists of three segments. Each segment can be delivered separately, but they are also designed to work together in a 60-90 minute speech.