I recently reflected on a story about how many hidden biases interfered with a relationship I had briefly in high school. Racist thoughts and beliefs had been taught by the people around me and the …
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My Ex-Boyfriend Dated a Racist*
It had been another tense ride home. As he drove, we both focused our eyes on the road. Why was dating so hard? We both liked each other. We went to the same school, shared many friends, and were on …
How Can You Reduce Discrimination Against the Ways Employment Candidates Speak?
I grew up in Kentucky and have worked in rural Texas, Upstate New York, Pittsburgh, and representing a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) at the United Nations (UN). I am fascinated by the world's …
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How Can You Create a Diversity Training Program for Your Business?
As many experts and employees have recently highlighted, even employers doing a better job of diversity hiring are struggling to fully include their hires in their culture. That is, in part, because …
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How Can You Improve Empathy In Your Workplace?
Aside from the statistics suggesting empathy will increase employee retention, empathy is important in the workplace because how we do one thing is how we do most things. We don’t typically lack …
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Do You Want Equality or Control?
A client reminded me this week that the United Nations was concerned about increasing acts of racism in the United States and Europe back in 2017. I was the Main Representative to the UN for a …
A Memorial Day Message
It has taken me nearly a year to get through Howard Zinn's book, A People's History of the United States. I bought it at a small bookstore in the center of Summerville, South Carolina while visiting …
Best Practices for Employers After an Employee is Injured
One of the most common complaints injured workers have about their experiences after a work-related accident is that the employers forget about them. Employees who feel valued are more likely to …
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Five Issues the NYS WCB Doesn’t Care About in the Claim Against You
Because of my 18+ years litigating workers'Â compensation claims in New York, I still get referrals from other attorneys who represent employers. It can often be quite difficult delivering bad news …
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Four Things You Need to Know About Worker Misclassification
I cringe every time that I read an article in an entrepreneur magazine that encourages readers to use independent contractors, instead of hiring employees, to build their new businesses. It's not …
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