Black Lives Matter

We are all waking up to a world which doesn’t feel safe: a world where an invisible force lurks that has transformed how we live and how we work. A life of social distance, fears or realities of unemployment, and physical threat of illness at best, death at worst – among other uncertainties. This has impacted every person from every race, nationality and creed.
 
However, and for too, too long, we have lived with another scary reality that has made the world so incredibly unsafe. The reality of racial discrimination.
 
Every organizational culture has the opportunity – the responsibility - to fight discrimination.. To create workplaces where people are treated fairly and justly, based on who they are. At the very least, the workplace, the place where we mostly engage with others, is where it is essential that leaders take a stand and then follow-up with processes that unequivocally speak out that Black Lives Matter.
 
How are you driving positive change in your company that will reverberate into our communities? How are your values defined and supported every day to ensure that every employee feels that they are safe, supported and treated with the utmost respect and dignity? It is on all of us, from big business to small business to find solutions that create a world where we are all treated with respect, kindness and care – and all afforded the same opportunities. Understanding that unconscious bias and microaggressions are very real parts of the human psyche is not enough. How is your culture designed so that those all can thrive and meet their professional goals within the workplace?