310. De-Biasing the Workplace + Building Equitable Workplaces - Olanike Ayomide-Mensah

Overview

Meet Olanike. This equity strategist and executor is obsessed with building equity in the world - starting with the workplace. Diversity & Inclusion is trendy, but the transformation is slow and fatigue has set in. We're talking through biases, psychological safety and building spaces where everyone can thrive. "Being in all of these different pockets of life, it has taught me that so many issues of inequity and injustice are rooted in our human nature." Let's work through it together, friends.

💡Learn

• Global perspective on DEI in the workplace
• What it means to live at the Intersection of Difference
• De-Biasing the workplace + building equitable workplaces
• How to create safe working environments

Today’s Guest

Olanike Ayomide-Mensah, Founder and CEO, Mosaic Consulting

Episode Highlights

• Olanike’s story and journey to where she is today (5:00)
• Global perspective of DEI in the workplace today (11:00)
• DEI work in the nonprofit sector right now (20:00)
• Living at the intersection of difference (24:00)
• De-biasing the workplace (35:00)
• Creating a safe work environment (43:00)
• A powerful moment of philanthropy in Olanike’s life (47:00)
• Olanike’s One Good Thing: Seek and embrace joy in all of the challenges. (54:00)

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