This blog brings you inspiring stories about people who have made the brave choice to unhide and share my own experiences as someone who hid my own visible disability. If you’re not familiar with me, you can read some background here. Here’s the quick version: while I built a successful 25-year career in the nonprofit…
Our differences take on many forms, some are hidden in order to avoid the feeling that we don’t belong. In our previous articles, we shared why creating safe places for people to share their differences is at the heart of a culture of belonging. We often define invisible diversity as those differences that cannot be…
Creating Connection As we learn to Understand ourselves and our differences, we are more equipped to promote and inspire Connection and a community of inclusion. In our previous article, “Understanding Diversity in the Workplace,” we outlined the CURE framework for building employee-empowered cultures of inclusion and the importance of developing Understanding as a first step.…
In our previous article “Why is Diversity in the Workplace Important? “, we talked about expanding the DEI concept in business today, and how it results in a sense of Belonging (DEIB). Creating a business culture of belonging requires a belief system and practices that are supported by all members of the organization. The CURE…
More than ever, workplaces are incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives into the operations framework of their organization. DEI becomes a guideline for employing a workforce comprised of individuals with a range of differences, most commonly identified as gender, religion, race, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, education, and others. The statistics on the positive impact…
Ableism is more than a definition. More insidious. More careless. More divisive. _________ Ableism is being told directly: You are not “disabled enough.” I don’t see you “that way.” People with disabilities are “deformed”, “defective”, “crippled”, “handicapped”. “Even as a white woman with a disability, you have no place in the diversity conversation.” “Disability doesn’t…
