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Why Storytellers Get Better Career Results

Whether you’re interviewing for a new role, or leaning into a promotion—stories induce the listener to feel something, and to make a decision about you with their heads and their hearts.

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What Does it Mean to Be Unapologetically You?

Maybe you’ve noticed this trend in the news, social media, and workplace: that it’s time for us to stop conforming to the dominant culture (read “white, male”) and get the culture to conform to us. Well, part of not conforming is not apologizing for who and what we are. So how do we do that?

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The Story of You in 2020

“So how did you end up at XYZ company?” and you make your way through that story. And then she asks you, “What experiences in life built you into the human being you are today?”

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The Inclusionomics Podcast: Black, White, and Lots of Grey

Our lively and timely conversations are all about powering up people who are on the edge. The edge of action, the edge of complicity, the edge of giving up. And we offer them the fuel to get clear, get heard, get included, and take action to make a positive impact in this world. 

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My Dark and Stormy #MeToo Night

With no disrespect to the Dalai Lama, we don’t need dudes to tell us this is The Century of the Woman. In this #MeToo era, we’re living it. Forward. Backwards. Upside down. Inside out. The lived experiences of women in every corner of the planet are a mouse click away, and even where there is no mouse click available, our stories are being told and formed into positive action and change.  
 

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