Special Guest: Jade Alexander-Esteves
Jade has been a Champion for Change in the workplace. She has been teaching people and creating envrionments which address cultural inclusion from all identities for many years. She talks about a perspective of both visual and non visual discrimation and biases which we use every day and how we can create a better inclusion focused environment.
- Jade's Journey
- Exposure to diversity challenges closer to the top
- Jade's push to instill Diversity in the workplace and the struggles
- How people's view on "looks" impact limitations on inclusion
- Society exposure - growing up in a white conservative environment
- Helping educating people
- Religion in the workplace
- Accepting a position and accepting the employee policies and standards outweigh any social protections
- Inclusion in the workplace and why keep it alive or not? Supporting stigmas?
- What about days or months specified to celebrate stereotypes?
- Generational? No - Baby Boomers are teaching their grandkids their values
- Millennials are more focused on Social Responsibility
- Barriers to enter the executive board
- Making biases based on what we see
- Asking people about kids, family, chilldren is NOT illegal if it is not a violation of protected classes
- Visual Looks and Attractiveness comes up as a very common issue in the workplace and how they identify - ADA violations
- Hidden Identities and stopping biases/discrimination - it's not just the way you look
- Double edge sword hidden and not hidden stereotypes
- Disclosure isn't permission to disclose to others
- Would disclosing to your boss or HR help you
Jade Alexander-Esteves
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jadeae3/
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