Podcast
Pivot
Denise Hamilton's new book discusses a more effective approach to DEI and how it has been confused with public relations by many organizations. The book argues for moving away from the language of DEI and focusing on creating an environment where giftedness is allowed to emerge.
I think that just because you know how to sell sprockets, it doesn't necessarily mean you know how to address issues of inclusion in your organization.
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Denise Hamilton's new book discusses a more effective approach to DEI and how it has been confused with public relations by many organizations. The book argues for moving away from the language of DEI and focusing on creating an environment where giftedness is allowed to emerge.
I think that just because you know how to sell sprockets, it doesn't necessarily mean you know how to address issues of inclusion in your organization.
I think we say thing. I mean, what does it mean to be diverse? Diverse from who? Equal to who? Included by who? We still center one group and kind of everybody's scratching and clawing and trying to get to the middle. And I kind of feel like there is no middle.
I think that we have outgrown the language of DEI.
We've done this before. The same people that are quoting Martin Luther King Jr. today would have disapproved of him. So I think it's really easy to think that in these historical moments, we would have been very different.
I think it's important we distinguish between the DEI effectiveness and efforts between what's happened on university campuses and corporations.