Oprah.com is featuring an invaluable collection of vignettes about Black inventors who changed American life It is impossible to see Black brilliance without also seeing the cost that Black Americans and the nation itself have paid for racism and without appreciating the job yet to be...
Mikaela Shiffrin, Champion"You only get one earthly life. Why not decide now to do something great, something courageous with your one and only earthly life?" This was the free advice offered by my high school advisor the last time he spoke to students before he...
Top Row L to R: Andy Tarsy, René Redwood, Izzy Jacques, Arturo VelasquezBottom Row L to R: Doris Quintanilla, Omari Jahi Aarons, Gloria Porras-Velasquez, Jonathan McBrideYou didn't really think we worked alone, did you?Your key stakeholders are asking hard questions and it feels different than...
In companies and organizations across the US, people are talking about racism, thanks to the courage of activists and the attention given to horrendous acts of violence against Black people. There are some truths coming through the noise - and there are some falsehoods too....
It is not always easy to see who is "winning" in the high profile effort to embrace diversity, equity and inclusion in the American workplace, on campuses and in all kinds of organizations. But it's easy to see who continues to lose: the same people...
We all know the old wisdom that in times as precarious as we are living through today you should "stick to fundamentals." One of the "fundamentals" that is often left out in discussions of business is your firm's social responsibility. Skeptical? I understand. For years...