Discussing Diversity  

• Linkage Summit on Leading Diversity

• (1)  a mentor --- a successful African American health care executive

• (2)  a network of other African American health care executives
  Book: The Fruits of Inclusion: The Smart Business Guide to Creating a Sustainable Diversity and Inclusion Program by Dr. Linda J. Burrs.
  Open dialogue with friends, clients, and acquaintances.

• I have always believed that the best "resource" is direct contact with people different  from us.  It seems to me most prejudices are based on stereotypes, and once we really get to know someone different from us and see that the reality rarely fits the stereotype, forward progress can be made.
  
  At the university level, it has been JoAnn Moody's book, Faculty Diversity: Problems  and Solutions.
  
  World Religion (book) Provided me with a new outlook on religion and how it's driving  force influences today's business professionals on how diversity represented in  the workplace. 
  
  Just beginning to gather pertinent information. The July issue of Black Enterprize is very helpful in defining  and listing best 50 companies in America for Diversity Commitments and follow thru.

• my organization) has a group that is charged with cultural development and education.  However  there has been little support for this group in the past and I don't see any major changes in the other direction at this point.

• One-on-one conversations with diversity professionals.  I found them at two conferences this summer:  WBENC and NUL.

• DiversityInc 
  
  Attending the Social Justice Training Instituted (sjti.org) 
  fierce conversations - susan scott
  
  solving tough problems - adam kahane

• Privilege, Power and Difference by Alan Johnson--

• Online training.

• It would have the be the Diversity Profile by Inscape that we use in all of our diversity & inclusion training
  
  Peace Corps Culture Matters Fieldbook

• Spiritual Pursuit. . .SEEI3 game on 7 major faiths.

• Talking with other minority professionals that experience some of the same trials and tribulation that I face daily.

• Internal awareness and training.

• Input from a Partner working with me on a project!

• "Liberating Our Dignity, Saving Our Souls" by Lee H. Butler (undoing the impact and effects of internalized raism) 

• I am currently using literature (short stories, memoir, fiction) to address issues of inclusion and diversity rather than business books or tools. You can find a list of "Bridging Differences" books on my website, www.37days.typepad.com" if that's of interest. I'm looking at books like David Berreby's "Us and Them" to explore the human condition of categorization and discrimination... The very best book written on race is a novel by Richard Powers entitled "The Time of Our Singing" - stunning.

• Jack Welch  " Straight From the Gut" . . . His vitality or differentiation curve.

• Tracy Brown's model that helped us discuss the extent to which our organization focused on awareness,accountability, alignment, and action in our diversity/inclusion strategy.

• The No Asshole Rule

• colleagues in the field

• The Servant Leader - James Autry

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