310: Moving the Needle on Equity + Diversity: How to De-Bias the Nonprofit Workplace - Olanike Ayomide-Mensah
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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.
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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
“Psychological safety is key, and it is impossible to make a difference when you are the only one.”
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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)
Powerful quotes
“How do we deepen our missions in the context of the society that we are in?” -Olanike
“We have to tell a complete story of the mission that we are all about.” -Becky
“We all have choices with everything. We can be a part of change or not.” -Becky
“Psychological safety is key, and it is impossible to make a difference when you are the only one.” -Olanike
“We don't have to buy the narrative that we're being fed so that other people can get the power that they're seeking.” -Olanike
“You have to plan in advance ways to catch and mitigate bias in everything, not just in hiring.” -Olanike
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Julie Confer, Becky Endicott, Jonathan McCoy and Olanike Ayomide-Mensah
