It's Time to Talk about Race at Work: Every Leader's Guide to Making Progress on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Hardcover

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KELLY MCDONALD is a professional speaker and expert on diversity in business. She’s authored three bestselling books on marketing, the customer experience and leadership, all from the standpoint of working with people “not like you”.

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Increasing diversity and inclusion in the modern workplace requires more than avoiding the most overt racism and sexism. It entails acknowledging the very real blind spots that are preventing your organization from reaping proven benefits of diversity: increased sales and profit, employee engagement and productivity, a competitive edge, and more.

In It’s Time to Talk about Race at Work, diversity and business trends expert and bestselling author Kelly McDonald delivers an essential roadmap for businesspeople who want to create a fair and equitable workplace but struggle with where to start.This book is ideal for people who have good intentions and realize that good intentions aren’t enough. It avoids racial theory and activism and approaches diversity from a practical perspective. Kelly McDonald tells you exactly what you need to do and how to do it in order to make actual progress in your organization.

You’ll learn the STARTING Method, an eight-step framework that delivers diversity and inclusion results, and why even people who consider themselves non-racist may have diversity blind spots that need to be addressed. You’ll learn what to say, what NOT to say (and why), how to avoid tokenism, and how to reach out to diverse communities and recruit effectively―and sincerely. Finally, you’ll find out why failing to meet your diversity and inclusion benchmarks can be extremely costly and can lead to your company missing out on easy opportunities.

Perfect for leaders, managers, and executives in companies of all types and sizes, It’s Time to Talk about Race at Work will also benefit any employee who wants to lead by example in their own organization and help achieve a more diverse and inclusive workplace.

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Increasing diversity and inclusion in the modern workplace requires more than avoiding the most overt racism and sexism. It entails acknowledging the very real blind spots that are preventing your organization from reaping proven benefits of diversity: increased sales and profit, employee engagement and productivity, a competitive edge, and more.

In It's Time to Talk about Race at Work, diversity and business trends expert and bestselling author Kelly McDonald delivers an essential roadmap for businesspeople who want to create a fair and equitable workplace but struggle with where to start. This book is ideal for people who have good intentions and realize that good intentions aren't enough. It avoids racial theory and activism and approaches diversity from a practical perspective. Kelly McDonald tells you exactly what you need to do and how to do it in order to make actual progress in your organization.

You'll learn the STARTING Method, an eight-step framework that delivers diversity and inclusion results, and why even people who consider themselves non-racist may have diversity blind spots that need to be addressed. You'll learn what to say, what NOT to say (and why), how to avoid tokenism, and how to reach out to diverse communities and recruit effectively―and sincerely. Finally, you'll find out why failing to meet your diversity and inclusion benchmarks can be extremely costly and can lead to your company missing out on easy opportunities.

Perfect for leaders, managers, and executives in companies of all types and sizes, It's Time to Talk about Race at Work will also benefit any employee who wants to lead by example in their own organization and help achieve a more diverse and inclusive workplace.