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Diversity & Inclusion

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WDN digital news is your source for articles by expert contributors and acknowledged professionals in the field of workplace inclusion, as well as curated content relevant to the benefits diversity, brings to strengthening a community. Last updated 4/12/22.

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Workforce Diversity Network Transitions Leadership

Guest Blog: For Your Consideration – and Action (By Michael Boucher)

Workforce Diversity Network Transitions Leadership

The Workforce Diversity Network (WDN) announced that following a national search, Dr. Michael D’Arcangelo has been selected to succeed Mike Streeter as Executive Director of the organization effective May 1. Streeter will retire after 26 years of service as Executive Director of the non-profit, an organization he help founded in 1996. Streeter will remain as President and on the Board of Directors.


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WDN Statements of Racial Equity

Guest Blog: For Your Consideration – and Action (By Michael Boucher)

Workforce Diversity Network Transitions Leadership

Our Members have made statements opposing racism in all its forms, aiming to draw more attention to the actions and commitments being made throughout our region and encourage others to do their part. As we unite in our efforts we, commit to the vision that our differences indeed make us stronger. 


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Guest Blog: For Your Consideration – and Action (By Michael Boucher)

Guest Blog: For Your Consideration – and Action (By Michael Boucher)

Guest Blog: For Your Consideration – and Action (By Michael Boucher)

One was a repost from Protest Therapist @ihategender (posted by Nanette D. Massey): ‘Too many aspiring white allies think racial justice is about diversity, inclusion and multiculturalism. No, no, no sweetie. This is about overthrowing power that benefits you, disproportionately often exclusively. Are you ready to sacrifice access, entitlement, innocence?’

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COVID-19 Member Resources

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Our members have developed great resources related to COVID-19 and the workplace that we wanted to share so we have included a new section dedicated to this key information and articles. We will continue to update this page regularly, so if you have additional resources, links or articles you wish to contribute or share, please email us.

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WDN Expert Contributor Articles

Eyes And Ears Wide Shut – The Silence Is Deafening

Seven Questions You Can Use To Talk With Your Children About The Unrest In America

Seven Questions You Can Use To Talk With Your Children About The Unrest In America

By Mauricio Velásquez

Expert Forum Contributor


I have always specialized in hostile or militant audiences but from time to time even I have to step back and pause for a second. Current events are always “fair game” in my workshops; it is what makes my sessions current, electric and never boring. Recent moments of truth in my sessions lead me to pen an update to the original article I wrote many years ago. The recent rash of horrible racial injustices (some say pattern) of Ahmaud Arbery to Breonna Taylor to George Floyd to Amy Cooper has erupted into a national conversation about racial injustice, white privilege, inequity, diversity, inclusion, and more.

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Seven Questions You Can Use To Talk With Your Children About The Unrest In America

Seven Questions You Can Use To Talk With Your Children About The Unrest In America

Seven Questions You Can Use To Talk With Your Children About The Unrest In America

By William Shackelford

Expert Forum Contributor


In 1968 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated I was a college student in Atlanta Georgia and immediately thrusted into the middle of the movement that would change the nation. We had great leaders in the Black community in Atlanta – and in the nation – who helped us understand, process and react to the events around us. In 1992 riots broke out in America after the acquittal of the four police officers involved in the beating of Rodney King. My three kids were all teenagers at the time, and we talked with them to help them understand, process and react to the events around them. Unfortunately, we are here again in a confusing and terrible time of racial strife in America.

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Five Ways Leaders Can Reduce Anxiety and Prevent Panic Right Now

Seven Questions You Can Use To Talk With Your Children About The Unrest In America

Five Ways Leaders Can Reduce Anxiety and Prevent Panic Right Now

By Simma Lieberman

Expert Forum Contributor


We are in the midst of a disruptive crisis no matter how “positive thinking police” try to spin it. As the Covid-19 quarantine continues with people working from home, with little or no social interaction, some of your team members may start experiencing a deeper level of anxiety. No one knows when or how it will end or what the “new normal” will look like. That anxiety due to seemingly uncertain futures and not knowing how or when the crisis will end, can cause some people to panic, lose focus about their work and disengage from the team.

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Getting People Back to Making Decisions After Covid-19

Getting People Back to Making Decisions After Covid-19

Five Ways Leaders Can Reduce Anxiety and Prevent Panic Right Now

By Robert Wendover

Expert Forum Contributor


The past two months have been chaotic, to say the least. We have been ripped from our routines, sent home, and told to stay off the streets until further notice. Millions have had their incomes disrupted and their daily concentration destroyed by the ongoing uncertainty. And now, after weeks of this turbulence, we will be asked to return to 

the previous routine, albeit with some significant changes.

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To Sing or Not to Sing

Getting People Back to Making Decisions After Covid-19

How to End the Generation War

By Steve Hanamura

Expert Forum Contributor


Shortly after I moved to Portland in 1980 a colleague, knowing my background with high school and college choirs, invited me to join the Choral Arts Ensemble, a forty-voice group that primarily sang classical music. Oddly enough we were invited to sing back up on a number with singer/songwriter Barry Manilow during his concert here in town. When we showed up for rehearsal the producer took one look at me and walked over to our director and said, "He can't sing."   

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How to End the Generation War

Getting People Back to Making Decisions After Covid-19

How to End the Generation War

By Simma Lieberman

Expert Forum Contributor


I’ve been facilitating cross-generational dialogues for over ten years. I started them because I was tired of one-dimensional conversations filled with bias and wrong assumptions about people who were older or younger. After the first three sessions, it was clear to me that we have a lot to learn from each other. Cross-generational mentoring became an integral part of my inclusive leadership coaching process

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Diversity Articles in the News

  • 5 Ways Diversity And Inclusion Help Companies Before, During And After The Pandemic
  • Layoffs already hitting women, minorities harder 
  • Steps To Maintain Workplace Equality During The Pandemic
  • Less than 30% of public health leaders are women: 5 things to know
  • 12 books of 2020 all managers who want to build diverse and happy teams should order right now
  • Working from home is helping discussions around gender diversity in the corporate world
  • Business Cares: Diversity & Inclusion
  • Smithfield CDC report highlights communication issues; recommendations for reopening
  • How Can We Help More Women to Access Tech Careers?
  • Stephen Lawrence Trust sets up HR partnership to boost diversity
  • Why one employer won't let COVID-19 derail 'critical' diversity efforts
  • Could Covid-19 Accelerate Diversity & Equality in the Workplace? 
  • Solar Power Has A Diversity Problem
  • Sponsorship of Women Helps Address Talent Gap, Increase Profitability in Semiconductor Companies
  • The Female Effect: A Decade Of Change At BP
  • Creating A Workplace Culture Of Belonging, Diversity And Inclusivity
  • Research: U.S. Unemployment Rising Faster for Women and People of Color
  • Driving a Culture of Inclusion
  • How Diversity Heads Are Steering Their Companies Through The COVID-19 Crisis
  • Are Organizations Measuring Diversity the Right Way?
  • Inclusion leads to innovation: how Atkins enables brilliant minds to flourish
  • I’m a Latinx startup founder, and this is what I learned about making a company truly inclusive
  • Why there’s (still) work to do to make recruitment diverse
  • Does remote working mean lack of belonging?
  • State Department: ‘Everyone has a role to play’ in workforce diversity strategy

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