115: Lenora Billings-Harris - Why Diversity & Inclusion is not "Political"
12/13/20 • 35 min
Lenora Billings-Harris has been leading diversity and inclusion work across the world for 25+ years. She shares her personal "why" story for this work dating back to 1994 in South Africa that builds the so important human case for diversity.
Together, we discuss
- Why diversity & inclusion is unfairly perceived as "political" and therefore hard to talk about
- Her B-BASIC techniques for allyship
- What it means to be an ally vs. an advocate
- D&I as a team metaphor - diversity is the make-up of the team and inclusion is how the team behaves
Connect with Lenora at https://www.ubuntuglobal.com/. Find Julie at https://nextpivotpoint.com/ or @nextpivotpoint.
Lenora Billings-Harris has been leading diversity and inclusion work across the world for 25+ years. She shares her personal "why" story for this work dating back to 1994 in South Africa that builds the so important human case for diversity.
Together, we discuss
- Why diversity & inclusion is unfairly perceived as "political" and therefore hard to talk about
- Her B-BASIC techniques for allyship
- What it means to be an ally vs. an advocate
- D&I as a team metaphor - diversity is the make-up of the team and inclusion is how the team behaves
Connect with Lenora at https://www.ubuntuglobal.com/. Find Julie at https://nextpivotpoint.com/ or @nextpivotpoint.
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