Podcast appearances and mentions of gena cox

Respect isn't just a workplace buzzword—it's the foundation of trust, engagement, and culture. Yet, too many leaders overlook its impact, mistaking civility for true respect. In this episode, Dr. Gena Cox joins Russel Lolacher to break down why respect is the missing piece in leadership, how it directly affects employee engagement, and why HR isn't responsible for fixing workplace culture—leaders are.They dive into: ✅ The difference between civility and real respect ✅ How leaders unknowingly erode trust in their organizations ✅ Why toxic cultures thrive when respect is absent ✅ The simple, daily actions leaders can take to foster respectIf you want to create a workplace where people feel seen, heard, and valued, this episode is a must-listen.Hey! If you're enjoying the insights from our guests, you'll love our R@W Notes Newsletter. It's packed with guest takeaways, the resources that inspire them, and my own tips on how we as leaders can be better humans for the humans the are responsible for. Go to RelationshipsAtWorkShow.com and Subscribe Now and help the workplace be more human.And connect with me for more great content! Sign Up for R@W Notes Subscribe on Youtube Follow on Linkedin Follow on Instagram Follow me on Threads Follow on TikTok Email me anytime

Toxic behaviors from top performers can create a tricky situation where individual success clashes with team well-being. While their results might stand out, the negative impact on workplace culture often ripples far beyond their achievements. Morale suffers, collaboration breaks down, and the long-term health of the organization takes a hit. Addressing this requires valuing the bigger picture over short-term wins, ensuring that success is measured by both results and how they're achieved. Gena Cox, Ph.D. is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, speaker, and author. Her book "Leading Inclusion" and her RESPECT ethos framework have been featured in prestigious publications like Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Forbes. Today, Dr. Cox discusses strategies for building a respectful work culture and shares her insights on the importance of respect in the workplace and how it can empower leaders to drive connection, collaboration, and innovation. Stay tuned! Resources Gena Cox: 25 Ways to Help Build a Culture of Respect at Work Gena Cox, Ph. D.: Strategic Executive Coach & Speaker. Optimize your leadership impact and influence. Get a copy of Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel by Gena Cox on Amazon Connect with Gena Cox on LinkedIn

What if the key to a successful startup lies not just in its venture's brilliance but in its workplace's inclusivity? In this episode of "The Angel Next Door Podcast," Marcia Dawood invites Gena Cox to explore a crucial aspect that entrepreneurs often overlook amidst the hustle of financial planning and product development—organizational culture. Cox, an organizational psychologist with over 30 years of experience, asserts that the human experience within an organization is foundational to its innovation, customer satisfaction, and overall success.Gena Cox is a distinguished expert in workplace culture, employee engagement, and survey design. Hailing from a diverse background—born in England, raised in the Caribbean, and later relocating to the U.S.—Cox offers a unique perspective on diversity and inclusion. Her recent book, "Leading Inclusion," targets senior business leaders and board directors, helping them foster environments where every employee feels seen, heard, and valued. Cox's insights are informed by both her professional expertise and personal experiences, especially in the wake of social events like the death of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.In this enlightening episode, Cox talks about the significance of nurturing an inclusive culture right from a startup's inception. She underscores the role of inclusion over sheer diversity, pointing out that everyday experiences and interactions within the workplace shape an organization's culture. Listeners will gain practical guidance on implementing structured hiring processes that align with company values and mitigate biases, ensuring sustainable growth and innovation. It's a must-listen for any entrepreneur, business leader, or angel investor supporting them, aiming to build a successful, meaningful, human-centric organization. To get the latest from Gena Cox, you can follow her below!LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox/https://genacox.com/Gena's FREE e-book 25 Ways to Help Build a Culture of Respect at Work: https://genacox.com/respectebook/ Sign up for Marcia's newsletter to receive tips and the latest on Angel Investing!Website: www.marciadawood.comLearn more about the documentary Show Her the Money: www.showherthemoneymovie.comAnd don't forget to follow us wherever you are!Apple Podcasts: https://pod.link/1586445642.appleSpotify: https://pod.link/1586445642.spotifyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/angel-next-door-podcast/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theangelnextdoorpodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marciadawood

We have put much effort into diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work over the last four years, but the results have been disappointing. Why? What should we be doing differently? Discover why many well-meaning leaders are left scratching their heads as underrepresented talent slips through their fingers, and employees push back against diversity initiatives. In this eye-opening episode, we'll unravel the mystery behind failed DEI strategies and reveal the missing pieces of the inclusion puzzle. This isn't just another DEI discussion – it's your roadmap to meaningful, lasting change built on psychological science, with our guest expert today, Dr. Gena Cox.WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:This episode will unlock the secrets to building a genuinely inclusive workplace with insights steeped in Industrial/Organizational psychology. You will discover a 3-point framework that cuts through the noise and become laser-focus on what truly moves the needle on organizational inclusion. We will move past the concept of "Respect" as a corporate buzzword and instead consider how it can be a powerful construct that can set your leadership apart in today's diverse business landscape.***ABOUT OUR GUEST:Dr. Gena Cox, an organizational psychologist with 25+ years of experience, is a leadership advisor, coach, and speaker passionate about creating inclusive workplaces. She helps leaders optimize company culture and employee experience to retain top talent and deliver their financial goals. Her expertise spans various industries, making her a versatile advisor for organizations seeking to thrive in today's disrupted business landscape.Dr. Cox's clients are profoundly impacted by her ideas and often say her perspective has guided them to think about employees' day-to-day experiences in new ways. Gena shows clients that Respect is a powerful driver of many business outcomes they seek. Her strategies have helped clients reduce voluntary turnover by up to 4% annually, narrow employee engagement score gaps between groups, and see improvements in collaboration and innovation.Author of the award-winning book Leading Inclusion, Dr. Cox's ideas are featured in business media including Fast Company, Forbes, Business Journal, and Harvard Business Review. Her Ph.D. is in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.***IF YOU ENJOYED THIS EPISODE, CAN I ASK A FAVOR?We do not receive any funding or sponsorship for this podcast. If you learned something and feel others could also benefit, please leave a positive review. Every review helps amplify our work and visibility. This is especially helpful for small women-owned boot-strapped businesses. Simply go to the bottom of the Apple Podcast page to enter a review. Thank you!***LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE:Guest LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox Guest Website: https:/www.genacox.comGuest Giveaway: https://genacox.com/inclusionresources/Our website: www.gotowerscope.com#LeadingInclusion #respect #EmployeeEngagement #DEI, #OrganizationalDevelopment #OrganizationalImpact #TheHardSkillsTune in for this empowering conversation at TalkRadio.nyc

Did you know that even if you're shaping a culture based upon respect, others may misinterpret well-intended encounters in the rapidly changing business environment? Finding new ways of helping others feel respected can change the game. This week, we're revisiting our Fan-Favorite conversation about new ways to look at perceptions of respect with returning guestRead More The post How Helping Others Feel Respected Can Change The Game – with Gena Cox PhD appeared first on Business Advancement.

Dr. Gena Cox, an organizational psychologist, leadership coach, and keynote speaker, is deeply knowledgeable about the human experience at work. In her work, she equips leaders with people-centered, psychology-backed techniques to drive employee retention and performance in the face of volatility. Gena spent decades advising corporate leaders on enhancing organizational culture using insights from applied research. This taught her that Respect is a potent yet overlooked antidote to employee discontent. Simultaneously, she coached executives on how to enhance their influence and impact. She noticed that familiar leadership models were too convoluted for volatile times. Leaders need simple, repeatable models they can learn quickly and easily implement. These insights prompted Gena to create her transformative “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” and “Yes … And” frameworks and write her award-winning Amazon best-selling book Leading Inclusion. Her forthcoming 2025 book examines how small behavior changes can build connections at work. Gena's work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, and Market Watch/Barrons, among others. What you will learn in this episode: How the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor impacted diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace How an inclusive culture impacts company performance and retention Why it is important to focus on fixing culture instead of thinking of DEI as a fix What respect accomplishes that other terms fail to capture in company culture Why companies should institute a respect ethos to hold employees accountable for behaviors Resources: Website: https://genacox.com/ Book: Leading Inclusion LinkedIn Personal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox/ LinkedIn Business: https://www.linkedin.com/company/feelshuman/ Freebies for your audience: https://genacox.com/inclusionresources/

June is Caribbean Heritage Month and Faith Talks is excited to celebrate this commemorative time. We are delighted to talk with Barbadian-American author Dr. Gena Cox. Cox is an organizational psychologist with a commitment to helping leaders create healthy and dynamic work environments. Her award-winning book Leading Inclusion: Driving Change Your Employees Can See and Feel is a “how to” resource that helps leaders remove barriers to inclusive workplaces. Faith Talks is hosted by Jennifer R. Farmer. Visit https://uwfaith.org/resources/podcasts/ to learn more about this podcast and other digital resources from United Women in Faith.

Organizational psychologist Dr. Gena Cox is deeply interested in the human experience at work. She believes respect is the antidote to most workplace discontent and has codified this in her “Respect to Lead” offerings.  Gena's work encompasses executive coaching, speaking, and advising business leaders. The common thread of her work is sharing nuanced, memorable, and actionable insights that her clients highly value. She is the author of the award-winning and Amazon-bestselling nonfiction book Leading Inclusion, which shows how to counter the typically disappointing outcomes from “diversity, equity, and inclusion” work. Gena's keynote speech equips leaders with strategies and techniques to boost employee engagement, performance, and results during turbulent and disruptive times. Her TEDx Talk, for a general audience, Yes … and Careers, encourages an exploratory approach to building a purposeful career. Her second book, to be published in 2024, explores the human condition through the lens of workplace interactions. Gena's work has been featured widely, including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, US News & World Report, Market Watch/Barrons, Business Journals, BBC Worklife, and Readers Digest. Gena holds a Ph.D. in Organizational psychology. She currently serves on the American Psychological Association (APA) Committee for the Advancement of General Applied Psychology (CAGAP) and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)'s Editorial Board for its Professional Practice Series. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/freeman-means-business/support

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion gets no respect - and neither does the population it was intended to support. Gena Cox, organizational psychologist, strategic advisor and author, believes that labels are beside the point when it comes to building an inclusive organization. It's about listening and feedback, and -- most important -- RESPECT.

REPLAY (Original Air Date: March 13, 2023) Today we are joined by Gena Cox, PhD. Gena is a corporate adviser and executive coach known as a straight-shooter who also brings warmth and generosity of spirit to her partnerships. She guides CEOs, leaders, and boards as they respond to evolving stakeholder expectations and transformation driven by societal change and organic and M&A growth. Her differentiator is the nuanced insights and recommendations she brings from a lifetime of continuous multi-disciplinary learning, enabling her to offer clients uniquely invaluable insights. Her book, Leading Inclusion, is available wherever books are sold. The book catalyzes executive leaders to drive inclusion from the top of their organizations.  [March 13, 2023]   00:00 – Intro 00:20 – Intro Links -          Social-Engineer.com - http://www.social-engineer.com/ -          Managed Voice Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/vishing-service/ -          Managed Email Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/se-phishing-service/ -          Adversarial Simulations - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/social-engineering-penetration-test/ -          Social-Engineer channel on SLACK - https://social-engineering-hq.slack.com/ssb -          CLUTCH - http://www.pro-rock.com/ -          innocentlivesfoundation.org - http://www.innocentlivesfoundation.org/                                02:43 - Gena Cox Intro 04:00 - What was the path to becoming a Leadership Advisor? 07:25 - Dealing With the Frustration 09:24 - The Immigrant Experience 11:27 - The Need for a Strategy 16:08 - Inclusion Tops Diversity 19:32 - Are You REDI? 20:52 - A Leadership Problem 24:33 - Chief Transformation Officer 27:21 - From the Top Down 30:33 - Don't Assume, Ask! 33:54 - Is there anybody listening? 38:05 - Find Gena Cox online -          Website: https://genacox.com -          LinkedIn: in/genacox -          Instagram: @genacoxphd -          Twitter: @genacox 38:54 - Book Recommendations -          Can We Talk? - Roberta Chinsky Matuson -          TED Talks - Chris Anderson -          Leading Inclusion - Gena Cox 42:00 - Who would you consider your greatest mentors? -          Maternal Grandmother -          Lawrence W. Hamilton 45:19 - Guest Wrap Up & Outro -          www.social-engineer.com -          www.innocentlivesfoundation.org

What is at the center of your inclusion efforts, my love? Let's talk about how focusing on respect can propel your organization and team to their highest potential!  In today's episode, I invite Dr. Gena Cox, trained organizational psychologist and executive strategist & coach, to have an important conversation about leadership and the power of respect as a workplace asset.  Ready for the heart-centered approach to inclusion that you've been searching for?  Let's go to the show!  We dive into: Gena's career journey to organizational psychology Why she focuses on respect as a KEY outcome The challenges of the immigrant experience in the workplace  A VITAL leadership solution to bridging inclusion gaps The practical reasons we should focus on DEI in our organizations  Respect - the 3 components & its importance as a corporate value And more   **Useful links** Connect with today's guest Gena Cox W: https://www.genacox.com  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/genacoxphd/  Check out Gena's Book Leading Inclusion.  Gena's current read: The Mirrored Door by Ellen Taaffe If you are ready to uplevel your career, get unstuck or you are simply ready to unlock those leadership time-management techniques then join us in my monthly career & leadership coaching program exclusively for women in tech: https://www.tonicollis.com/academy  Catch the show notes, and more details about today's episode here: https://tonicollis.com/episode175  Check us out on Youtube. Join the Leading Women in Tech community in Slack where we discuss all-the-things for women's tech leadership, covering everything from early-career leadership to C-level executives.

This episode is about the importance of having a long-term view of the value your book can bring to the world. Becky is joined by two former guests, Gena Cox and Kevin Wilde, who have both reached the one-year anniversary of their latest book launches. Gena and Kevin share what they have learned about book marketing and some tactics that have helped them continue gaining momentum for their work post-launch. During the episode, Gena and Kevin also share: About themselves and their work in the world. Some of the tactics and approaches they have used post-launch to continue getting their work out to new audiences.If they tried any tactics that were not worth it in the end.The journey of figuring out their audience for their books and how those audiences have evolved.How earned media—podcast appearances, interviews, articles, blog posts, etc.—have propelled momentum for their books post-launch. The standard Gena has set for herself when it comes to marketing her book: Do at least one thing each week to support and promote the book. Some parting wisdom about investing in the long-term value of your book. Don't forget to check out our show notes, which include action steps and resources.Please feel free to message Becky at becky@weavinginfluence.com to share your thoughts!

Join us for an enlightening session with Gena Cox, a renowned expert in equity and inclusion and author of Leading Inclusion. In this episode "5 Minute Advice for Authors,”, Gena delves into the importance of representation and inclusivity in the literary world. Drawing from her vast experience, she shares insight on how authors can weave diverse narratives and create more inclusive stories. Whether you're an emerging writer or a seasoned author, Gena's perspective promises to enrich your understanding of equity in literature and inspire you to champion diversity in your works.Watch all our episode videos on YouTube and get more advice for authors at http://5MinuteAdviceForAuthors.comrboO24midZZfCYh2meUw

In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Dr. Gena Cox about why respect is the critical foundation for inclusion. Dr. Gena Cox (https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox), CEO of Feels Human, LLC, is an organizational psychologist and executive coach who helps leaders optimize their impact and influence, make career pivots, and build inclusive, “Respect2LeadTM organizations. She is the author of Leading Inclusion, an award-winning guidebook that shows how to counter the typically disappointing outcomes from “diversity, equity, and inclusion” work. Her TEDx Talk, Yes … and Careers, encourages an exploratory approach to building a purposeful career. Gena is a prominent voice on human-centered leadership, helping leaders see that “inclusion tops diversity“ and must be powered by respect at the center.  Check out all of the podcasts in the HCI Podcast Network! Check out the ⁠HCI Academy⁠: Courses, Micro-Credentials, and Certificates to Upskill and Reskill for the Future of Work! Check out the LinkedIn ⁠Alchemizing Human Capital⁠ Newsletter. Check out Dr. Westover's book, ⁠The Future Leader⁠. Check out Dr. Westover's book, ⁠'Bluer than Indigo' Leadership⁠. Check out Dr. Westover's book, ⁠The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership⁠. Check out the latest issue of the ⁠Human Capital Leadership magazine⁠. Each HCI Podcast episode (Program, ID No. 627454) has been approved for 0.50 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). Each HCI Podcast episode (Program ID: 24-DP529) has been approved for 0.50 HR (General) SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCPHR recertification through SHRM, as part of the knowledge and competency programs related to the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge™ (the SHRM BASK™). Human Capital Innovations has been pre-approved by the ATD Certification Institute to offer educational programs that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials. Each HCI Podcast episode qualifies for a maximum of 0.50 points.

Meet our esteemed guest, Dr. Gena Cox, an organizational psychologist and an executive coach who believes in a human-centered approach to coaching. Her perspective, enriched by her travels, emphasizes the significance of understanding every individual's point of view. She asserts that leaders who travel often develop a broad-minded approach, becoming more aware, inclusive, and adaptable. In this revealing conversation, Dr. Cox provides insights into the nuances of executive coaching, drawing a distinction from coaching middle managers. She dwells on the importance of intuition in coaching, indicating how it aids in comprehending clients' needs. The conversation illuminates how change operates on different planes and how the client's sense of being acknowledged and valued determines the effectiveness of the coaching. For those intrigued by leadership, inclusion, and coaching intricacies, this episode is a treasure trove of insights worth exploring.*The upcoach podcast is produced by Ventures FM.*Episode Quotes:On how to be an effective leaderYou can't consider yourself to be an effective leader if you only understand the needs and expectations of a fraction of your workforce. An inclusive leader is one who understands 100% of that workforce and is then able to make decisions that support 100% of that workforce.Who are the most effective leadersI grew up on a Caribbean island called Barbados, and one of the things that I realized on the island is that you were interacting with people from all over the world just because those people were on your island, and you sort of looked outward. And then, as I got older and as I traveled, I started to notice that people who traveled were apparently just more curious, more flexible in their approach to a variety of things. And so, I guess we could say that, if that is true, that observation, it probably also is true with regard to leadership because the leaders that I think are the most effective, especially on this inclusion slice of leadership, are the ones that are able to realize that they have a perspective, that everybody's perspective is sort of defined by their own experiences, and to be effective as a leader, you've got to understand a wide range of perspectives and then get comfortable with them. The one thing that's made an outsized impact on her ability to help clientsI'm gonna call it just-in-time results-focused coaching. And the reason I labeled it that way just for this conversation is because I figured the possibility that there might be people listening to this conversation who have heard this idea about results-focused coaching. Meaning you go into coaching with the perspective that you want to make sure that your clients are able to accomplish whatever it is that they desire. That's why they're doing coaching, it has to be worthwhile and useful. Well, that's great. What I've learned to add to that over the years is that I really focus and spend more of my time thinking about what is going on with my clients. What is it that they need in the moment? And so, while it's fine to talk about results and to have a big idea or a big goal that you're working towards, it's really important for me to think very clearly about the industry that my client is in, to stay up to date with what's happening, news that may influence or impact the decisions that they have to make. Because when a client is with me, I want to sort of have a sense of what's going on with them right now. That's the true value of coaching.Typical leadership coaching VS executive coachingI think one of the distinguishing characteristics of working with executives is that, first of all, things are moving really fast. You have to be ready, to be in the moment and go to flow because the thing that they might want to talk about today might be the thing that was furthest from your mind. So, there's just that part of it that you've got to be extremely flexible and nimble and able to sort of go with that. The other thing, though, is that you sort of get to the point in the relationship where you know that they're finally able to tell you what's really on their minds. It's a process in that sense. There's no shorthand that you can take to that. It's one of the challenges that I had when I would work with large companies that would want to say what their coaching process was. Sometimes, they would say this is our process; this is how we want to do things, and that does not really work with regard to the kind of coaching that we're talking about, and that's, I think, a big distinguisher between typical leadership coaching and executive coaching. You've got to have all that space for the client to be able to sort of flex and move and change. And one of the things you can do is kind of help them stay on the right map, stay on the path that they said they want to be on, but also make it possible and easy for them to deviate from that whenever they need to do it. Show Links:Gena Cox on LinkedInGena Cox websiteLeading Inclusion

Exploring a seemingly old-fashioned and often overlooked key ingredient necessary for workforce inclusion, organizational psychologist Gena Cox reminds us that the way we make people feel matters. As a highly sensitive person able to quickly assess whether respect is present in interactions… or not, Gena encourages leaders to make compassionate action the norm. She shares the 3 C's every leader needs to adopt and encourages everyone to get an “Inclusion MBA”. Dr. Gena Cox is an Organizational Psychologist, Leadership Impact Strategist, Executive Coach, Speaker, and award-winning author. She is known for her nuanced, multi-disciplinary insights and honest-but-supportive style.Gena spent decades working in and consulting to global companies, including the Fortune 500. Now, in her private practice, she works with leaders personally to optimize their impact and influence, and to build respect-first, inclusive organizations. Tune in to Gena's insights for a more inclusive tomorrow. CHAPTERS00:00:00 Intro00:03:38 Change you can feel00:09:50 The key to inclusive leadership00:11:58 Deciphering respect00:16:57 Understanding culture00:19:23 Gena's generosities00:20:29 Response to DEI initiatives00:25:13 The Global South has had enough00:28:30 The Inclusion MBA LINKSBlog post - Four Step P.L.A.N. to Get Organized™"Five Love Languages" by Gary ChapmanMichael J Fox on CBS News IMAGE CREDITS (see images on Youtube video)George Floyd - credit Wiki CommonsMaya Angelou - credit Depositphotos“Five Love Languages” by Gary Chapman - credit Clare KumarThai people smiling - credit Envato ElementsJapanese commuters not engaging with each other - credit Envato ElementsMichael J Fox - credit Wiki CommonsLisa Whited - credit LinkedIn“Work Better: Save The Planet” by Lisa Whited - credit Clare KumarJamie Dimon - CEO JP Morgan Chase - credit LinkedInREDI “Respect to Lead” Model and eBook - credit Gena Cox Learn more about and follow Gena:InstagramYoutubeTwitterLinkedInWebsite

What are the barriers to inclusion? Gena Cox, the author of Leading Inclusion, discusses her book, these barriers, and how to build a real Culture of Engagement. Is belonging the right word for culture? Gena gives her perspective on this as well. Listen Here!Buy Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel#SponsoredbooklinkConnect with Gena:WebsiteLinkedInGena's Bio:Dr. Gena Cox's nuanced insights and straightforward-yet-relatable style are why leaders seek her counsel. She is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and speaker who blends research and real-world insights to help leaders enhance their influence and impact. Gena is the author of Leading Inclusion, an award-winning guidebook for building inclusive organizations from the top down. As a prominent voice on human-centered leadership, she guides leaders as they respond to evolving stakeholder expectations. Gena believes “diversity and inclusion” are nothing more than effective leadership and healthy work cultures. Her mottos are “Inclusion tops diversity“ and “Respect is the vital outcome all employees need to see and feel.”Before this, at IBM and Perceptyx, Gena advised leaders in the Fortune 500 and other large global companies to build psychologically healthy and engaging organizational cultures that drive business outcomes. And she held internal corporate leadership roles in organizational consulting and talent assessment, selection, and acquisition.Gena co-chairs the Awards Committee of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and is a member of the Society's 2022 Leading Edge Consortium Planning Committee. She is a member of the National Women's Hall of Fame 2023 Inductee Selection Committee.Gena's work has been featured far and wide, including Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Fast Company, Forbes, Business Insider, Market Watch/Barrons, Business Journals, BBC Worklife, Readers Digest, and The Telegraph (UK).Gena holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational (I-O) Psychology. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM). She is an International Coach Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach (PCC).Support the show

This episode is all about book awards! Becky is joined by three authors—Gena Cox, Libby Hoffman, and Kevin Wilde—who have all been successful in applying for, and winning, book awards. During the episode, Gena, Libby, and Kevin talk about the process of seeking out awards for books, whether it's worthwhile to apply for them, and what book awards have done for the life of their books. During the episode, you will also discover: What Gena, Libby, and Kevin's goals were when applying for book awards, and what the process looked like for each of them.Some of the key points you should know about book awards and the process of applying for them. Misconceptions that other authors might have about the book awards process.The different awards that Gena, Libby, and Kevin applied for and received.If there truly is only an upside to applying for book awards, as long as you have the budget. The benefits of winning a book award, or multiple awards. How an author can amplify the impact of awards once they have won them.Gena, Libby, and Kevin's final thoughts about the book awards journey.Don't forget to check out our show notes, which include action steps and resources.Please feel free to message Becky at becky@weavinginfluence.com to share your thoughts!

Did you know that even if you're shaping a culture based upon respect, others may misinterpret well intended encounters in the rapidly changing business environment? Finding new ways of helping others feel respected can be a game-changer. This week, we're discussing new ways to look at perceptions of respect with returning guest, Gena Cox, PhD.Read More The post How Helping Others Feel Respected Can Be a Game-Changer– with Gena Cox appeared first on Business Advancement.

Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and speaker. She helps leaders enhance their impact and influence to meet the new demands of a disrupted work world. Gena also focuses on how leadership and culture drive inclusion and talent optimization. She is the author of the award-winning book Leading Inclusion, a guidebook for executives who want to lead inclusion from the top of their organizations. What you will learn in this episode: Why organizational psychology is critical for creating a respectful workplace How 2020 completely changed the human element of work Gena's advice around the complexity of language and responding to a misunderstanding in a way that communicates understanding and a commitment to do better Why inclusion should always top diversity in the business world How the murder of George Floyd changed the conversation around DNI in companies What leaders can do to impactfully embrace DNI in a way that creates a sustained change in behavior in the company Resources: Website: https://genacox.com/ Book: Leading Inclusion LinkedIn Personal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox/ LinkedIn Business: https://www.linkedin.com/company/feelshuman/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/genacox2020/

In the United States, we have always lived with the history and realities of racism.Whether we have lived with it as an active part of our life or have had the privilege to ignore it and deny it, it has shaped our understanding of our country and each other. Since racism has always been a loaded, hot-button, triggering topic to discuss, many leaders have flatly avoided talking about it. Since the summer of 2020, however, organizations are realizing that this issue is not going away.Workers want organizations that are inclusive and equitable. As such, the avoidance strategy that has allowed leaders to manage this issue in the past is emerging as the biggest problem of all.Fortunately for all of us, Gena Cox has taken the time to think deeply about how to open the door to these important conversations.Listen in for compassionate, insightful, and practical advice to help all of us navigate conversations about creating inclusion in the workplace.Join us as we discuss:How the root cause of the failure of most DEI initiatives is avoidance driven by a lack of skills on the part of even the most well-meaning leadersHow respect is the opposite of grandstanding and is the foundation of our only viable path forward to create inclusive workplacesHow to have respectful relationships with your employees even when difficult conversations and decisions are neededThe Unleashing Your Great Work podcast is sponsored by the Great Work Journal! The Great Work Journal is here to answer the question “But HOW?” How can we figure out what our Great Work is? How can we get started, stay with it, and finish our Great Work so it can go out in the world and have an impact?Resources Mentioned: Join the Great Work Community here: amandacrowell.com/great-work-communityClick here to get your own copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.About The Host:Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside– without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.Follow the podcastTo get each new episode downloaded automatically, click the + to follow the podcast!Leave us a reviewRatings and reviews mean everything to us. They help our podcast rank higher, which means more people will be inspired to unleash their Great Work! Your time to leave a review is greatly appreciated!

Dr. Gena Cox, CEO of Feels Human, LLC, is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and author of Leading Inclusion, an award-winning guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down. Before this, at IBM and Perceptyx, Gena advised leaders in the Fortune 500 and other large global companies to build psychologically healthy and engaging organizational cultures that drive business outcomes. A noted voice on human-centered leadership, Gena helps leaders see that “inclusion tops diversity.”

No doubt your organization has a diversity and inclusion effort and it may go by any number of acronyms: DEI, IED, DEIB, etc. What do you need to understand as a leader? More importantly, what do you need to do to ensure you have a team that has diverse points of view, that values those differences and that creates an inclusive culture where everyone has a fair shot and an equal voice? If you want to break away from the pack, tune in.

No doubt your organization has a diversity and inclusion effort and it may go by any number of acronyms: DEI, IED, DEIB, etc. What do you need to understand as a leader? More importantly, what do you need to do to ensure you have a team that has diverse points of view, that values those differences and that creates an inclusive culture where everyone has a fair shot and an equal voice? If you want to break away from the pack, tune in.

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Gena Cox, Ph.D. discusses her new book that provides powerful insights for leaders to drive inclusion: “Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel.” In this conversation, Gena stresses the value of human relationships, and how organizations have vast opportunities to optimize the human experiences for their employees. Gena reveals how a system that doesn't embrace inclusion will lose employees who don't feel included. Listen in for how curiosity can help your team feel even more connected.   https://bit.ly/TLP-353   Key Takeaways   [2:00] Dr. Cox tells how she is the luckiest person in the world. Her grandmother had a grade school education but was an entrepreneurial wizard. From watching her grandmother grow her neighborhood store, Gena learned the value of the human relationship in terms of getting things done. Gena's secret is that much of what she talks about comes from observing her grandmother and her customers. [2:56] When Dr. Cox was growing up, she wanted to be a journalist. She still sees journalists covering things around the world and imagines herself doing that. She supposes that journalists, like others, have a big “why” about how they can make the world better that lets them keep going. [4:22] Dr. Cox has been trained not to make assertions without evidence to support the assertions. She had known for a long time about the importance of respect. But it wasn't until the summer of 2020 when she interviewed leaders and surveyed employees about what they think leaders don't understand about inclusion, black employees said they felt leaders were distancing themselves and avoiding them. [5:54] When Dr. Cox did the content analysis to see the themes emerging from those comments, she came up with the word “respect.” These comments were all about things where people wanted to be seen, heard, and valued. [7:07] It is important not to just think about these issues in the present, but to look centuries back. In our country, there are social dynamics that have existed for generations within a community where there are significant power imbalances. These imbalances correlate with race, ethnicity, and socioeconomics. Ignoring those factors can lead to misunderstanding the experience of employees from those places. [8:21] Dr. Cox wrote one chapter about history at the beginning of her book. It makes a difference if leaders understand the broader context before they try to address specific initiatives or priorities in their organizations because they might miss the mark, otherwise. [9:19] Dr. Cox works with leaders on inclusion and with individuals to think about how they can be the best that they desire to be. It takes two sides of this equation to tango to get the outcomes that we desire. Dr. Cox shares a case of a client feeling discriminated against in their career progress. Dr. Cox suggested they look for what they could do to get past the barrier and jump the hurdle. [10:28] Dr. Cox offers three ideas that can help each of us make that difference for ourselves. 1. Have a big “why” for what kind of influence and impact you desire to have. 2. Have a track where you are working on custom master classes. Learn as much as you can that will help you get to your goal. 3. Amplify and brand yourself within our job. Dress and behave for the job you want. [11:53] If your current job does not allow you to do all that, you might have to do it on a parallel track and keep it moving until you can use what you learn to move forward overall. [14:06] Dr. Cox thinks there is a lot of misinterpretation and reinterpretation that takes place about leaders like Martin Luther King. Dr. Cox does not talk a lot about what specific people have said. Some people hearing a quote may miss the main idea. Inclusion tops diversity. It's not just about getting more representation of a particular group. DE&I is really effective leadership of 100% of employees. [16:38] Dr. Cox talks about effective leadership to create situations where every single person in a team, group, or organization feels that he or she can put in the appropriate efforts and get the expected outcomes. We all have to have a part in making that happen, especially managers. [17:49] After George Floyd was killed, corporations started offering implicit bias training and hiring Chief Diversity Officers. Those two solutions are just tactics. They need to be added to a strategy that says “Here is what we are solving for.” [18:34] The most important thing leaders can do to minimize the risk of doing things that are not effective is to start by talking to employees about what is their day-to-day experience. Then they will tell you what you should focus on first. [19:20] Dr. Cox would like leaders to attach fewer restrictions to the research-based insights, such as the size of the survey group. The research is too new to be buttoned down. Dr. Cox points to the value of qualitative data or the stories that people tell in this area. These stories haven't been told before so leaders don't understand the solutions they should implement. [21:28] Dr. Cox asked about three years ago in a LinkedIn article why, with regard to DE&I, organizations are not utilizing the same strategy and problem-solving techniques that they apply to every other problem. Because of the emotional component, including fear and anxiety, about the topic, leaders are failing to use the same kinds of judgment skills that they might have used for something else. [22:22] What research have you done? Have you gone to a solution without research or understanding what's going on so that your actions might work? Are you just throwing a dart at a board and hoping that something will stick? You would never do that if you were implementing a new initiative to support your customers or clients because you would know how high the risk would be. [23:18] The number one topic on the minds of boards of directors and leaders today, apart from making money, is talent. Under talent is the shortage of talent.  Why is there a shortage of talent? People come up with a variety of explanations. The data Dr. Cox sees is that there is a significant portion of the workforce that feels alienated from their leaders and colleagues and dissatisfied. [24:31] The latest research says that 50% of Black American employees say that they are thinking about or preparing themselves to leave their current job. There has been more data over the past couple of years because of the pandemic. [24:55] Dr. Cox asks leaders to think about why there is so much dissatisfaction and whether it is true in their organization. If so, what are the elements in their organization that could be causing it? If not true, what could they learn about it? They're about to have this problem. What can they do to make it better for employees? [25:26] This leads to conversations about compensation, speaking up, well-being, mental health, and a variety of issues that should be at the tip of the spear. [26:31] Rehumanizing the workplace means emphasizing the idea that effective leadership is a pie chart. There's a piece for task performance and a piece for human performance. All the outcomes organizations are driving to achieve have a human component. [28:23] Leaders are telling employees to “come back to the office and do it this way,” instead of considering alternative ways to work. There's a significant gap between what employees desire and what the leaders at the top think employees desire. Rehumanizing the workplace means connecting with the employees. [32:50] Dr. Cox doesn't want to believe that with MBA programs costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, organizations aren't focusing on the human experience. But she believes they are not focusing sufficiently on the human experience. The management of humans has not been balanced with task performance. Dr. Cox wants to do away with the term “soft skills” which are understood to be less than “hard skills.” [34:40] In an HBR article, “5 Strategies to Infuse D&I into Your Organization,” Dr. Cox writes about mitigating implicit bias at the systemic level. It involves looking at data the organization has about existing patterns within the organization of selection, promotion, career mobility, and visibility of people who have a variety of characteristics. [36:15] Leaders often think they are leading organizations where things are better than employees might imply that they are. Diversity is not just hiring diverse people. If new employees walk into situations where the environment is not ready for them or receptive to them, they are not going to stay. It's important for you to figure out, “What does it feel like to work in my organization every day?” [37:15] Leaders don't know how their managers behave, day-to-day, or recognize how often those behaviors are having a damaging impact. They don't put enough emphasis on setting expectations for manager behavior. Leaders need to ask, “Over the years that you have worked for this company, how often have you raised your hand to share an idea and been swatted down?” Optimize the talent you have! [38:21] If you run an organization with customer-facing people, you want to know how the customer is being treated. You should also want to know what experience your employees are having when they're interacting with your customers, and not assume that the customer is always right! Inclusion is understanding the day-to-day experience of all the employees that you currently have. [40:09] Dr. Cox has spent at least 10 years measuring employee experience, advising leaders about how to use data coming out of employee surveys. Respect is a concept that everybody understands. Nobody seems to know what belonging means. [40:49] Dr. Cox says leaders only need to ask three questions in a survey: Do you feel respected? What is it about your experience that makes you feel respected? Do you feel disrespected? What is it about your experience that makes you feel disrespected? What can we do to enhance your feelings of being respected? A three-question survey is as powerful as a long survey if you know what you're measuring. [42:25] Do not overcomplicate the issue. The only outcome that matters in this conversation is what are the experiences that employees are having and are they continuing to have good or bad experiences. What accounts for the variability between good and bad experiences, and what you can do as a leader, knowing and understanding that, to make these things a little more equitable and consistent? [43:39] Dr. Cox speaks of potential clients who ask her to talk about something and when it gets to a point where it's uncomfortable, they hadn't planned for the discomfort, and then rather than move forward through the discomfort, they back away and don't want to do the thing they should be doing. Dr. Cox is disappointed that some leaders haven't thought through what they believe. [44:34] On the plus side, while a lot of the things organizations are doing are destined not to have any impact when it comes to inclusion, more leaders are talking about these issues and are inching forward to a place where leaders can be engaged in trying to understand these issues rather than avoiding them. Dr. Cox is having these conversations more than ever before, even when some people are running away. [48:01] Dr. Cox's last thought: “I have a three Cs model. … Curiosity leads to Connection and that Curiosity and Connection are necessary in order to get to Comfort. Comfort, I think, is what we all seek.” [49:03] Closing quote: Remember, “Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.” — Martin Luther King Jr.   Quotable Quotes “While I call myself an organizational psychologist because that's my formal training, the secret that most people don't know is that a lot of the stuff that I talk about is stuff that I learned in the little … corner store just by observing my grandmother and her customers.” “When I was growing up, I wanted to be a journalist. I didn't even think about psychology, And still to this day, when I see journalists covering all kinds of things around the world, I say, ‘Gosh, I could do that. I can do that.'” “Dr. King taught us that whether we are talking about race, gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity, neurodiversity, or other ways that humans naturally vary, we can't sit idly by and wait for others to provide the inclusion we seek. Each of us can help ourselves and others.” “I talk about effective leadership to create situations where every single person … in an organization, feels that he or she, when they show up, have a chance to be able to put in the effort that is appropriate and get the same outcomes that would be expected.” “Something about the emotion of this issue is causing people to fail to use problem-solving skills that they actually already possess.” “Are you optimizing the talent that you already have? Most people will say, when I ask ‘What is missing here about why I don't feel included?', it tends to fall into the category that ‘I'm not seen, heard, or valued.'” “By inclusion, I simply mean understanding the day-to-day experience of all the employees that you currently have.” “I remain eternally optimistic about all of this because of Gen Z and their willingness to speak for us, for everybody, about what that good human experience feels like.”   Resources Mentioned Theleadershippodcast.com Sponsored by: Darley.com Rafti Advisors. LLC Self-Reliant Leadership. LLC Gena Cox Gena Cox on LinkedIn Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel, by Gena Cox, Ph.D. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “5 Strategies to infuse D&I into Your Organization,” HBR  

Today we are joined by Gena Cox, PhD. Gena is a corporate adviser and executive coach known as a straight-shooter who also brings warmth and generosity of spirit to her partnerships. She guides CEOs, leaders, and boards as they respond to evolving stakeholder expectations and transformation driven by societal change and organic and M&A growth. Her differentiator is the nuanced insights and recommendations she brings from a lifetime of continuous multi-disciplinary learning, enabling her to offer clients uniquely invaluable insights. Her book, Leading Inclusion, is available wherever books are sold. The book catalyzes executive leaders to drive inclusion from the top of their organizations.  [March 13, 2023]   00:00 – Intro 00:20 – Intro Links -          Social-Engineer.com - http://www.social-engineer.com/ -          Managed Voice Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/vishing-service/ -          Managed Email Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/se-phishing-service/ -          Adversarial Simulations - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/social-engineering-penetration-test/ -          Social-Engineer channel on SLACK - https://social-engineering-hq.slack.com/ssb -          CLUTCH - http://www.pro-rock.com/ -          innocentlivesfoundation.org - http://www.innocentlivesfoundation.org/                                02:43 - Gena Cox Intro 04:00 - What was the path to becoming a Leadership Advisor? 07:25 - Dealing With the Frustration 09:24 - The Immigrant Experience 11:27 - The Need for a Strategy 16:08 - Inclusion Tops Diversity 19:32 - Are You REDI? 20:52 - A Leadership Problem 24:33 - Chief Transformation Officer 27:21 - From the Top Down 30:33 - Don't Assume, Ask! 33:54 - Is there anybody listening? 38:05 - Find Gena Cox online -          Website: https://genacox.com -          LinkedIn: in/genacox -          Instagram: @genacoxphd -          Twitter: @genacox 38:54 - Book Recommendations -          Can We Talk? - Roberta Chinsky Matuson -          TED Talks - Chris Anderson -          Leading Inclusion - Gena Cox 42:00 - Who would you consider your greatest mentors? -          Maternal Grandmother -          Lawrence W. Hamilton 45:19 - Guest Wrap Up & Outro -          www.social-engineer.com -          www.innocentlivesfoundation.org

Dr. Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and speaker known for her nuanced insights and warm personal style. She advises on leadership influence and impact, career strategy, and inclusion. Gena is the author of Leading Inclusion_**, **_an award-winning book that shows how to counter the typically disappointing outcomes from “diversity, equity, and inclusion” work. Various media outlets, including Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Fast Company, and Forbes, have featured Gena's work. Previously, Gena held internal corporate and external leadership roles in organizational consulting, talent assessment, selection, and acquisition. Gena holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational (I-O) Psychology and is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC). In this episode we discussed: what “leading inclusion” is and the importance of it why she doesn't believe in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) as it is commonly known the challenges of authors to get their books into the hands of readers that moment when a stranger wrote a poem about her book the significance of authors' knowing their “why” a reminder that your book is not about something; it is for someone Connect with Dr. Gena Cox at: https://www.genacox.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox/ Thank you for listening! Be sure to follow the show so you don't miss the next episode! You can connect with Dr. Robin on LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram or contact me via email at: robin@purpose-based.com Go to: https://www.createmasterfulcourses.com to get her free training on "How to Turn Your Book into a MASTERFUL Course" Also, you can learn more about Leadership Purpose and her books at: https://www.robinlowens.com/ Talk to you soon! Episode edited by Podcast Manager - LJS Creative Services https://www.ljscreativeservices.co.nz

Today, organizations need to take a broader view of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and find ways to make employees feel like they are part of the organization. It starts with effective leadership and culture. In this discussion, we take an authentic look at the actions leaders need to take to create meaningful change. In this interview, Gena Cox, Ph.D. shares in depth how leaders need to be open and transparent from “the top of the house”. Explore with us how we can create more inclusive workplaces.Dr. Cox describes her research for her best-selling book, Leading Inclusion and dives deep into the findings and her discovery of the Three C's leaders need to understand in order to create inclusive organizations. Follow along to this great conversation and learn more about elevating the human experience in the workplace.The 3 C's:If you are a leader, you have an obligation to lead the employee. Try using these three components:Curiosity-Leaders must know something about the people they lead.Connection-People are looking to have meaningful human interactions.Comfort-Everyone wishes they could get past the conversation and feel comfortable being themselves.In examples shared in this interview, Dr. Cox talks about a personal experience that helped her to look at how we approach inclusion. It goes to the Comfort part of the the Three C's. When people don't feel comfortable they are less likely to engage. Dr. Cox walks us through the survey she created with 500 people, and what she found was truly getting in the way of inclusion. She asked the question: “What is it you would like your leaders to know about your feeling included?”What she heard over and over was that in order to achieve real change, outcomes have to start by delivering Respect first to have an inclusive culture. As a result, she created the R.E.D.I. Model. It starts with Respect first.The R.E.D.I Model: Respect – Equity – Diversity – Inclusion“It is difficult to build and lead an inclusive organization without first understanding the experiences of those who have been traditionally excluded.”-Gena Cox“This interview happened immediately following the HerCsuite™ DEI Cross Organization Council program with Gena Cox, Ph.D. Every month, the council gets together and has an outside speaker like Dr. Cox, followed by peer-to-peer conversations and networking. Our speakers are part of HerCsuite™ network community and members have an opportunity to meet, engage and thrive together.Resources:Gena Cox.comLinkedIn PostVisit HerCsuite™HerCsuite™ DEI Council HandoutHerCsuite™ Radio is sponsored by our Turnkey Speaker Programs. Find out about our Women's History Month Program and Schedule a call to learn more.HerCsuite™ Founder and Podcast Host Natalie Benamou can be found LinkedIn | HerCsuite™ LinkedIn | HerPower2 LinkedInThank you Dr. Cox for being a HerCsuite™ speaker, guest on this podcast and member of our DEI Cross Organizational Council. Keep shining your light out, the world needs you. We would be honored if you subscribed and shared this episode with a friend or colleague today!

Show Summary Live by the platinum rule of treating others as to how others want to be treated, which is one of the problems leaders, and business owners have. They often assume that others want to be treated the same as them. In this episode, Dr. Gena Cox shares why respect is the key to making an organization attractive to new talents. People want to be seen, heard, and valued. Respect is really the driver of employee engagement and satisfaction that is likely to cause employees in your organization to stay and to be an attractor to others who might consider the organization.   Website: https://www.genacox.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/genacox Free Resource: https://www.rediwarmup.com/gena-cox/ Excerpt from Gena's book: https://genacox.com/leadinginclusionexcerpt Corporate Partner: People Process – https://peopleprocesses.com/

Dr. Gena Cox discusses the research and vision behind her award-winning book "Leading Inclusion." This episode looks at what a truly competent and relevant leader does when it comes to DEI. We also talk about ways to think about driving systemic change in an organization that is sustainable and meaningful. Learn all about Dr. Gena Cox: https://genacox.com/ Learn more about her book: https://genacox.com/book/ Connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox/ Dr. Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and speaker known for her nuanced insights and warm personal style. She advises on leadership influence and impact, career strategy, and inclusion. Gena is the author of Leading Inclusion, an award-winning book that shows how to counter the typically disappointing outcomes from “diversity, equity, and inclusion” work. Previously, Gena held internal corporate and external leadership roles in organizational consulting, talent assessment, selection, and acquisition. Various media outlets, including Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Fast Company, and Forbes, have featured Gena's work. Gena holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational (I-O) Psychology. For a transcript of this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IbKTYC4EUCI5Uyoi_ye0JgVaAKQqndC-SYZ0izdNxFI/edit?usp=sharing

Dr. Gena Cox is the CEO of Feels Human, LLC. She is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and award-winning author. After a decades-long career advising leaders in some of America's largest companies, Gena felt that the pace of progress in workplace inclusion was unacceptably slow. She harnessed her experiences, expertise in organizational psychology, executive coach insights, and understanding of C-suite dynamics to write her book, Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel. It is a comprehensive guidebook for building inclusive organizations from the top down. Gena helps leaders to connect the unfamiliar dots to drive inclusion from the top of their organizations. She asks her clients to remember one simple idea: inclusion tops diversity. Throughout her career, Gena has looked through a global lens, sensing that the world is actually small and humans are more alike than different. She was born in England, and at three years, her parents split, and Gena went to live with her grandparents in Barbados. She had a wonderful childhood and later attended college in the United States, where she studied psychology. Gena had also wanted to be a journalist, so she worked at a newspaper for two years, covering the business beat. To this day, when she sees reporters on television, Gena is fascinated by how they get to the core of a story. Interestingly, her father, who had worked at The Guardian newspaper in England, encouraged her to study something other than journalism and then write about it. Ultimately she pursued her interest in psychology. In this week's Work From The Inside Out podcast, learn more about Gena's journey: Before starting her own business, Gena advised leaders in the Fortune 500 and other large global companies to build psychologically healthy and engaging organizational cultures that drive business outcomes. Her work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Fast Company, Business Insider, Market Watch/Barrons, BBC Worklife, and The Telegraph (UK). Learn more and connect with Gena here: https://www.instagram.com/genacoxphd https://www.Twitter.com/genacox  https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox www.genacox.com  

In the United States, we have always lived with the history and realities of racism.Whether we have lived with it as an active part of our life or have had the privilege to ignore it and deny it, it has shaped our understanding of our country and each other. Since racism has always been a loaded, hot-button, triggering topic to discuss, many leaders have flatly avoided talking about it. Since the summer of 2020, however, organizations are realizing that this issue is not going away.Workers want organizations that are inclusive and equitable. As such, the avoidance strategy that has allowed leaders to manage this issue in the past is emerging as the biggest problem of all.Fortunately for all of us, Gena Cox has taken the time to think deeply about how to open the door to these important conversations.Listen in for compassionate, insightful, and practical advice to help all of us navigate conversations about creating inclusion in the workplace.Join us as we discuss:How the root cause of the failure of most DEI initiatives is avoidance driven by a lack of skills on the part of even the most well-meaning leadersHow respect is the opposite of grandstanding and is the foundation of our only viable path forward to create inclusive workplacesHow to have respectful relationships with your employees even when difficult conversations and decisions are neededResources Mentioned: Get Gena's Book: https://genacox.com/book/Grab Gena's script: genacox.com/scripthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox/Click here to get your copy of Amanda's book, Great Work.About The Guest:Dr. Gena Cox, CEO of Feels Human, LLC, is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and author of Leading Inclusion, an award-winning guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down. Before this, at IBM and Perceptyx, Gena advised leaders in the Fortune 500 and other large global companies to build psychologically healthy and engaging organizational cultures that drive business outcomes. A noted voice on human-centered leadership, Gena shows executives how to stop using 2019 behavior to address 2022 workplace challenges.About The Host: Dr. Amanda Crowell is a cognitive psychologist, speaker, author, and coach focused on changing our perspective on the world of work. It IS possible to do Great Work—the work that calls to you from the inside-- without sacrificing your health, happiness, and relationships.Amanda is the Author of the book, Great Work: Do What Matters Most Without Sacrificing Everything Else, and the creator of the Great Work Journals. Amanda's TEDx talk has received almost two million views and has been featured on TED's Ideas blog and Ted Shorts. Her ideas have also been featured on NPR, Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, and Thrive Global.Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to the Unleashing Your Great Work Podcast!If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast edits, you can follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app.Leave us a tip to Support The Podcast!Leave us an Apple Podcasts...

Gena Cox PHD (@genacox) is an Organizational psychologist (that's worked with fortune 500 companies) and is also the author of Leading Inclusion.   We discuss inclusion, how to help others feel like they're being included that isn't just "ticking a box" and how you can become more inclusive in your own company.   Find Leading Inclusion on Amazon.com And Gena on https://www.genacox.com/   Get your 2-month free trial of my Inner Circle here https://bit.ly/InnerCircle2MTrial   Join the FREE Facebook group for The Michael Brian Show at https://www.facebook.com/groups/themichaelbrianshow   Follow Mike on Facebook Instagram & Twitter

There are some ways to make an impact on the world, it might be walking down the streets, protesting but Dr. Gena Cox, an executive coach, got a whole different way of doing it. She is using her experience, knowledge, and training in human behaviour to positively impact the business world by summarising it in her book. In this vodcast of THE BRAND CALLED YOU, the author of LEADING INCLUSION shares her idea of leadership. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tbcy/support

On this episode Jeff interviews Gena Cox, about how leaders can build inclusion into workplace culture. Gena in an expert in inclusion, and has her PhD in Industrial & Organizational Psychology. Jeff and Gena discuss her new book, "Leading Inclusion, Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel.” Jeff and Gena explore why is it difficult for many C-Suite executives to understand and focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in a way that creates long-lasting change. They discuss the lack of education about black history in the United States among business leaders, and how can leaders can better understand the impact of racial trauma at work. Jeff and Gena explore the concept of REDI and how it is different from DEIB. Gina shares why some commonly used terms are not helpful when referring to disadvantaged and underrepresented communities.

I had a conversation this week with a very kind senior DEI leader who wanted to help me help the company. They gave me some words to say that they thought might help get buy-in from the boss. This person encouraged me to pitch our Inclusive 360 Assessment as an “organizational improvement methodology”, not DEI. Our future work together as “change management”, not DEI.All of this is true because our assessment examines the systems for gaps in equity and inclusion. What it delivers is a roadmap for meaningful systemic change and organizational improvement. Not DEI. I've found that a lot of the organizations I speak to aren't quite invested enough for “organizational improvement”, beyond changing the way they hire. We deliver a lot of workshops and keynotes to help establish that readiness, but those workshops are mostly about behavior change. About people. While that's great, I know that will only move the needle so far.Lily Zheng recently wrote about this in HBR – To Avoid DEI Backlash, Focus on Changing Systems — Not People. Organizational improvement, change management, systemic change, whatever you want to call it. We're here for it. Have you found that you've had to change your messaging around DEI to get buy-in?Here are the good vibes I found this week:A Colorado Ski Resort Is Opening a Day Care For Employees—and It Could Provide a Blueprint to Help Solve the Childcare CrisisBrown University Bans Caste Discrimination Throughout Campus in a First for the Ivy LeagueAva DuVernay Becomes the First Black Woman on a Ben & Jerry's Pint with New Caramel FlavorA Hundred UK Companies Sign Up for Four-Day Week with No Loss of PayAnti-racism: When You Picture Doctors Without Borders, What Do You See? Read the full blog here: www.theequalityinstitute.com/equality-insights-blog/5-things-not-deiTo learn more about Gena Cox, please visit https://genacox.com/about/ Join thousands of readers by subscribing to the 5 Things newsletter. Enjoy some good vibes in DEI every Saturday morning. https://5thingsdei.com/

Wait, why would organizational psychologist and author of Leading Inclusion proclaim that DEI is BS? Because it must be a subset of leader effectiveness, not a standalone program, according to Gena Cox, PhD. Gena was featured in a recent Vanguard Network Dialogue and delivers a powerful message for senior leaders: you have to be effective with 100% of your talent pool.

How can understanding true inclusion lead to successful leadership? Dr. Gena Cox discusses the highlights of her book ‘Leading Inclusion,' and shares insights based on her own years of experience in corporate America, as well as the experiences of colleagues and clients.   ~ WE'LL DISCUSS ~ Why she believes inclusion tops diversity The breakdown of the REDI, or Respect First, Model The 3 Cs critical to successful leadership  Why she doesn't use the term ‘belonging' in reference to inclusion About Gena Cox, Ph.D: Dr. Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, speaker, and author of the new book Leading Inclusion, a groundbreaking guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down. Gena has spent more than 25 years helping leaders, including some in the Fortune 500, build healthy organizational cultures and measuring employee opinions. A noted voice on human-centered leadership, Gena shows executives how to stop using 2019 behavior to address 2022 workplace challenges. Gena has written for Harvard Business Review and has been quoted in Forbes, Fast Company, BBC Worklife, The Business Journals, Linkedin News, and other national media. Gena holds a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of South Florida and is an International Coach Federation Professional Certified Coach (PCC). She is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and the American Psychological Association (APA).   Dr. Cox's Book recommendation: Unapologetically Ambitious by Shellye Archambeau   To learn more about Dr. Gena Cox, visit the links below: Her book, Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel Her website, GenaCox.com  Twitter, @genacox LinkedIn, GenaCox     Stay Connected with Heather: To schedule a call with Heather, click here  To follow Heather on Instagram, click here To subscribe to Heather's 3Q newsletter, click here To request a transcript of this episode, email operations@heatherhansenpresents.com    

Inclusion has been one of those terms we might reserve for HR, an initiative, or a special interest group. Wrong. It's critical to the success of any organisation, and a moral responsibility. For too long, traditionally disadvantaged groups – by race, gender, sexuality – have progressed slower and had poorer experiences at work. Their leaders – from a majority group – have employed avoidance tactics, in some cases standing away and not giving eye contact, sticking to their familiar places and faces.What does it take to build an inclusive organisation? Dr. Gena Cox shares the highlights of her book 'Leading Inclusion':★ The critical 3 Cs required of any leader.★ Why talking about a business case for diversity or inclusion (or both) is offensive.★ Where biases show up, and what to do about them.★ Why it doesn't take special or different leadership of people who are different from the majority.★ What it takes for Chief Diversity Officer to have a positive impact.About Gena:After a decades-long year career advising leaders in some of the largest companies in America and beyond, Dr. Gena Cox concluded that the pace of workplace inclusion change was unacceptably slow. She harnessed her organizational psychology and executive coach insights, her understanding of c-suite dynamics, and her personal workplace experiences to write a book, Leading Inclusion. Her book helps leaders connect unfamiliar dots to drive inclusion from the top of their organizations. Gena asks her clients to remember one simple idea: “Inclusion tops diversity!”Resources:★ Website: https://www.genacox.com ★ Book (Leading Inclusion): https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Inclusion-Drive-Change-Employees/dp/1774581795 ★ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox My resources:Sign up to my Strategic Leader newsletter (http://bit.ly/36WRpri) for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox. You'll get a free 'Mastering Big Moments' Workbook if you do. If you're not already do subscribe to my youtube channel (http://bit.ly/3cFGk1k) where you can watch the conversation. Take the Extraordinary Essentials test (https://bit.ly/3EhSKY5) to identify your strengths and development areas. For more details about me: ★Services (https://bit.ly/373jctk) to CEOs, entrepreneurs and professionals.★About me (https://bit.ly/3LFsfiO) - my background, experience and philosophy.★Examples of my writing (https://bit.ly/3O7jkc7).★Follow me and engage with me on LinkedIn (https://bit.ly/2Z2PexP)★Follow me and engage with me on Twitter (https://bit.ly/36XavNI).My equipment:★ Shure SM7B Vocal Dynamic Microphone: https://amzn.to/3AB9Xfz★ Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd Gen USB Audio Interface : https://amzn.to/3AFeA8u★ 2M XLR Cable: https://amzn.to/3GGxkbf★ Logitech Brio Stream webcam. https://amzn.to/3EsWt6C★ Elgato Key Light: https://amzn.to/3Xhiqyh★ Elgato Light Strip: https://amzn.to/3gyZF8P★ Riverside.fm for recording podcasts. bit.ly/3AEQScl ★ Buzzsprout Podcasting Hosting gets (listing podcasts on every major podcast platform along with listening analytics. bit.ly/3EBPNTX[These are affiliate links so I receive a modest commission if you buy them.]

After a decades-long career advising leaders in some of the largest companies in America and beyond, Dr. Gena Cox concluded that the pace of workplace inclusion change was unacceptably slow. She harnessed her organizational psychology and executive coach insights, her understanding of c-suite dynamics, and her personal workplace experiences to write a book, ‘Leading Inclusion'. Her book helps leaders connect unfamiliar dots to drive inclusion from the top of their organizations. Gena asks her clients to remember one simple idea: “Inclusion tops diversity!”Here's a glimpse of what you'll learn:Gena Cox's childhood in Barbados before moving to the United StatesWhat events spurred Gena to write her bookHow personal revelations drove her writingWhat behavioral-based leadership meansWhy inclusion is more vital than diversityThe difference between a passive and an active leaderThe meaning behind Gena's acronym REDITwo pieces of terminology Gena uses to describe effective leadershipGena's thoughts on positive leadership trends moving forwardGena's favorite chapter in her book ‘Leading Inclusion'In this episode…Dr. Gena Cox is a corporate advisor and executive coach who recently authored a book titled “Leading Inclusion”. Along with her professional coaching certification, Gena holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Dr. Cox works to set the standard for building inclusive work environments, the ones everyone deserves.The events of 2020 involving Ahmed Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd proved a trigger point for Dr. Cox, affecting her profoundly, and leading to the writing of her book. She explains how the book is composed of insights and experiences she's had for decades, driven by a new desire to work towards solutions to the events engulfing the country. Inclusion, rather than diversity, is what Dr. Cox stresses and she breaks down the differences in the terms. Gena and Martin discuss how much more vital inclusion and belonging are to employee safety and satisfaction in the workplace.In this episode of What CEOs Talk About, host Martin Hunter and guest Dr. Gena Cox dive into the insights that formed her book, ‘Leading Inclusion', and the necessity of leaders who put inclusion over diversity. Their conversation includes experiences around privilege, behavioral-based leadership, and key terminology Dr. Cox uses to explain the foundation of inclusive leadership. This honest and insightful episode with the wonderful Dr. Gena Cox will inspire every leader it reaches.Resources mentioned in this episode:URGEOContact email: info@urgeo.comMartin Hunter on LinkedInGena Cox on LinkedInGena Cox, PhD website‘Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel' by Gena Cox, Ph.DBreonna Taylor informationAJ HarperWhat CEOs Talk About Episode ‘If You Don't Have Inclusion, You Don't Have Anything' with Katarina Polonsky‘Leadership Reckoning' by Thomas Kolditz, Ph.D, Libby Gill, and Ryan P Brown, Ph.D‘The Warmth of Other Suns' by Isabel Wilkerson‘Caste' by Isabel WilkersonRecommended resources for CEOs:Monday.comBambooHRSponsor For This PodcastThis podcast is brought to you by URGEO, Operational excellence in action through the Are you Ready Program!Are you READY to free up your time?Optimize your Organization?Grow revenue and reduce costs?Build your leadership team?Partnering with organizations like yours, we work with you to implement our proven methodology designed to transform your operations, while providing accurate advice and support for real success.Translating strategy into frontline operations, URGEO helps leaders and the people within their organization excel at safe, on-time, on-budget and on-spec delivery. Let's touch base so we can learn how we can level up your business. Contact us today.

Our sense of belonging is considered one of the most important drivers of our well-being.  According to a Harvard study on health and aging, connection with others delays both our mental and physical decline. I am so happy to share with you today's SATIATE guest, because her work (and her brand new book!) speaks to just this.  Dr. Gena Cox is the author of Leading Inclusion, an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and speaker. She advises DE&I leaders who want to build the inclusive environments all people deserve. Her work is designed to help us all feel empowered and inclusive in all forms of our leadership. Find out more about Dr. Gena Cox at https://genacox.com/about/ Here is the link to the FREE R.E.D. I. Skin-in-the-Game Warmup exercise https://www.rediwarmup.com/gena-cox/ Find Me at: Sue Van Raes: www.bouldernutrition.com/ Boulder Nutrition Retreats: www.bouldernutrition.com/retreats Follow Me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/bouldernutrition/

Have you ever wondered why it can be so challenging to see meaningful outcomes from very well-intentioned efforts to enhance diversity? Dr. Gena Cox joins us to discuss the essential role of top leadership in fostering a culture of inclusion in their organizations to close this gap. A noted voice on human-centered leadership, Gena showsRead More The post Why Leading Inclusion Tops Diversity – with Dr. Gena Cox appeared first on Business Advancement.

Dr. Gena Cox is an Organizational Psychologist, Executive Coach, Speaker, and Author.  She guides CEOs, leaders, and boards as they respond to evolving stakeholder expectations and transformation driven by societal change and organic and M&A growth. She is author of the award-winning book Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel. A notedRead More The post Why Leading Inclusion Tops Diversity – with Dr. Gena Cox appeared first on Business Advancement.

Welcome to The Profit Talk! In this show, we're going to help you explore strategies to help you maximize profits in your business while scaling and creating the lifestyle that you want as an entrepreneur. I am your host, Susanne Mariga! I'm a certified Mastery Level Profit First Professional. Let's dive into strategies to maximize profits in your business! In this episode, I interview Dr. Gena Cox. Today, she talks about her brand-new book, Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel. Dr. Gena Cox believes that “inclusion tops diversity!” She uses organizational psychology insights, her understanding of c-suite dynamics, and her own workplace experiences to share fresh and powerful insights that will help leaders drive inclusion from the top of their organizations.  She proclaims!  To learn more about Dr. Gena, the services she provides and order her new book, go to any of the links below:  Website: https://www.genacox.com    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox   Book (Leading Inclusion): https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Inclusion-Drive-Change-Employees/dp/1774581795   Visit my FREE Facebook Group, The Profit First Masterclass, where I'll be sharing additional exclusive trainings to members of the community.   If you're excited about what's next for your business and upcoming episodes, please head to our itunes page and give us a review! Your support will help me to bring in other amazing expert interviews to share their best tips on how to powerfully grow in your business!  DISCLAIMER: The information contained within these videos is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute, an accountant-client relationship. W.hile we use reasonable efforts to furnish accurate and up-to-date information, we assume no liability or responsibility for any errors, omissions, or regulatory updates in the content of this video. Any U.S. federal tax advice contained within is not intended to be used for the purpose of avoiding penalties under U.S. federal tax law. 

32. Leading Inclusion (with Gena Cox) Dr. Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and author of the new book, Leading Inclusion, a groundbreaking guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down. Gena, CEO of Feels Human, LLC, has spent more than 25 years helping leaders build healthy organizational cultures and measuring employee opinions. Before this, at IBM and Perceptyx, Gena advised leaders in the Fortune 500 and other large global companies to build psychologically healthy and engaging organizational cultures that drive business outcomes. A noted voice on human-centered leadership, Gena shows executives how to stop using 2019 behavior to address 2022 workplace challenges  In this episode: Gena shares insights, collected from years of experience, colleagues, and clients, about the lack of understanding of people who are different from us and how to bridge that leadership gap. She shares what she wants readers to take away from her new book, Leading Inclusion. Gena states what she believes is the biggest challenge organizations face with inclusion. Gena shares her best tip for leaders of teams to be more inclusive. She shares the first steps to bring more inclusion into an organization. Gena shares the legacy she hopes to leave behind and how she feels after writing her book. Gena's Book Recommendation is: Seen Heard and Paid To connect with Gena and learn more about her: genacox.com Links to Gena's Book genacox.com/book Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book. As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com. You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you! If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too! Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast! 

A new, important role has entered the lives of business owners – the role of Chief Diversity Officer. This is a role in which we, as business owners, ensure we are being inclusive in our businesses and in our communities, with greater consciousness of the messages we're putting out into the world. It may seem like yet another hat we must wear as small, self-employed business owners, but being inclusive is equally important for the self-employed as it is for large corporations. But as usual, how we can be inclusive is different for us than it is for large corporations. To help us navigate this topic, I speak with Dr. Gena Cox, author of Leading Inclusion. In our conversation, Dr. Cox breaks down the difference between diversity and inclusion, and how inclusion is particularly relevant to small businesses and the self-employed. As Dr. Cox says, all of us can be more inclusive than we currently are. We discuss how inclusion and respect can impact many of our daily business activities (for example, even in things such as decisions about how and to whom we offer discounts). Dr. Cox also offers practical insights and solutions for increasing inclusion, such as looking for things we have in common with others who are different from us, and how having a “comfort goal” can help us be more inclusive more easily. After a decades-long career advising leaders in some of the largest companies in America and beyond, Dr. Gena Cox concluded that the pace of workplace inclusion change was unacceptably slow. She harnessed her organizational psychology and executive coach insights, her understanding of c-suite dynamics, and her personal workplace experiences to write a book, Leading Inclusion. Her book helps leaders connect unfamiliar dots to drive inclusion from the top of their organizations. Gena asks her clients to remember one simple idea: “Inclusion tops diversity!” And be sure to subscribe to The Self-Employed Life in Apple Podcasts or follow us on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss an episode. Everything you need can all be found at jeffreyshaw.com.  Dr. Gena Cox, thank you so much for being here!   Remember, you might be in business FOR yourself but you are not in business BY yourself. Be your best self. Be proud and keep changing the world.     Guest Contact – Inclusion Insider Tipsheet GenaCox.com Gena Cox on LinkedIn (in/GenaCox) Gena Cox on Twitter (@GenaCox) Leading Inclusion by Gena Cox Contact Jeffrey – JeffreyShaw.com Books by Jeffrey Shaw Business Coaching for Entrepreneurs The Self-Employed Summit Watch my TEDx LincolnSquare video and please share!     Valuable complimentary resources to help you –   The Self-Employed Business Institute — You know you're really good at what you do. You're talented, you have a skill set. The problem is you're probably in a field where there is no business education. This is common amongst self-employed people! And, there's no business education out there for us! You also know that being self-employed is unique and you need better strategies, coaching, support, and accountability. The Self-Employed Business Institute, a five-month online education is exactly what you need. Check it out! Take The Self-Employed Assessment! — Ever feel like you're all over the place? Or frustrated it seems like you have everything you need for your business success but it's somehow not coming together? Take this short quiz to discover the biggest hidden gap that's keeping you from having a thriving Self-Employed Ecosystem. You'll find out what part of your business needs attention and you'll also get a few laser-focused insights to help you start closing that gap. Have Your Website Brand Message Reviewed! — Is your website speaking the right LINGO of your ideal customers? Having reviewed hundreds of websites, I can tell you 98% of websites are not. Fill out the simple LINGO Review application and I'll take a look at your website. I'll email you a few suggestions to improve your brand message to attract more of your ideal customers. Fill out the application today and let's get your business speaking the right LINGO!   Host Jeffrey Shaw is a Small Business Consultant, Brand Management Consultant, Business Coach for Entrepreneurs, Keynote Speaker, TEDx Speaker and author of LINGO and The Self Employed Life (May 2021). Supporting self-employed business owners with business and personal development strategies they need to create sustainable success.

How to Be a More Effective Leader with Gena Cox, PhD On this week's episode of The Leadership Habit Podcast, Gena Cox and I sat down to talk about how to be a more effective leader. And hey, here's one tip that you can hear right from Gena— stop using 2019 behavior to address 2022 […] The post How to Be a More Effective Leader With Organizational Psychologist Gena Cox, PhD appeared first on Crestcom International.

“What really matters is, what does it feel like to work in your organization every day and what is your organization doing to the world?” shares Gena Cox, Organizational Psychologist, Speaker, and Author of Leading Inclusion. Gena is an executive coach and accomplished speaker with a focus on human centered leadership and helping leaders to create healthy organizations. Today, Gena joins Mike Horne in conversation to talk about inclusion and the importance of going a step beyond representation to really understand the day to day experiences of employees that belong to marginalized groups.  Gena shares that she realized a long time ago that the fundamental challenge with inclusion and workplaces is that we live in a very segregated society outside of work. We expect to just all magically understand one another within the work environment, without ever really discussing the challenges and differences that we face coming from different backgrounds. In order to really improve inclusion, there must be a focus not only on representation and hiring people from diverse backgrounds, but also in improving the day to day experience of those employees once they are there. In her book, Gena coined the acronym REDI for respect, equity, diversity and inclusion, and these are the main components of creating a truly inclusive work culture. It is not enough to just choose one thing and put all the focus on that, but really all four elements are what leads to true fundamental change within organizations.  Often the focus of organizations is placed too much on profits and not enough on the human component of recognizing the people who actually are the backbone of the organization's success. In order to create a truly inclusive work environment where people from all backgrounds feel they can be themselves and feel respected, there needs to be a larger focus on examining employees' daily experiences. Tune into this week's episode of the Authentic Change Podcast to learn more about REDI and how people in leadership roles can increase inclusivity within their organizations.  Quotes: “I recognized a long time ago that the fundamental challenge that we have with issues of inclusion and of just work, I think of it more broadly just employee experience, is that we live in a very segregated society outside of work. And yet we think that magically, when we get into the workplace, we should understand one another, when we never see each other once we leave work. And we never talk about the differences, and we never talk about what makes it hard.” (6:42-7:12 | Gena) “The most important thing that any of us can do, especially if we are advisors to leaders, is to give them more data. Give them more insights from the data, all of the insights. Don't hold anything back, so that the student leaders can really understand what's going on here and when they're making decisions, those decisions can be grounded in a much broader framework than just telling them engagement is flat without really letting them see those nuances.” (14:07-14:36 | Gena) “It doesn't matter how many people you hire who are of different races, ethnicities, LGBTQ plus status, disabilities, or what have you unless you know what kind of an experience they have on a day to day basis when they come into the organization.” (16:33-16:45 | Gena) “The focus on inclusion means that organizational leaders need to not just ask about representation, they need to know about what's happening on a day to day basis. And then they need to know what outcomes they should focus on to really measure that.” (17:05-17:17 | Gena) “What really matters is, what does it feel like to work in your organization every day and what is your organization doing to the world?” (24:45-24:53 | Gena) “We look around and we can see leaders making decisions every day that appear to be contradictory to the survival of the species. But they're profitable, very profitable, and those leaders are lauded for their profitability. And yet, when a week later, we see stories where we discover that in this same organization that is so profitable, decisions are being made about people's daily lives, about their working hours, about whether they will be paid fairly, whether they can unionize that, that let you know that the human element, which is clearly the thing that gets this all done, isn't being given the same weight as other factors.” (25:01-25:42 | Gena)  Links: Mentioned in this episode: Learn more about Mike Horne on Linkedin Email Mike at mike@mike-horne.com Find more about Leading People and Culture with Authenticity   Learn more about Dr. Gena Cox: Website | genacox.com Book | genacox.com/book Tipsheet | genacox.com/tipsheet   Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm

Companies like Amazon are deploying robots to satiate our desire for instant gratification. But is that a good thing? Do they have drivers or do they drive themselves? What do robots mean for the future of delivery?  Mike gets answers from Alastair Westgarth, CEO of Starship Technologies, and Organizational Psychologist, Dr. Gena Cox.  Got questions? Email Mike at ivegotquestions@audacy.com

Today's guest urges leaders to stop using 2019 behavior to address 2022 workplace challenges. She is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, speaker, and author of “Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel.” It is a groundbreaking guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down. She has spent decades advising and coaching business leaders, including some in the Fortune 500, building healthy organizational cultures and measuring employee opinions. As a noted voice on human-centered leadership, she has written for Harvard Business Review and has been quoted in Forbes, Fast Company, BBC Worklife, and other national media. Please join me in welcoming Gena Cox. In this episode we discuss: her thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is about relationships and understanding how to help a group accomplish something.” how a passing conversation with a former employee made Gena realize she was not a very good leader by not being accessible. how anyone can see and value life experiences even if you have not personally experienced them. the impact her maternal grandmother had on her and how she encouraged Gena to learn about new things. the three careers she wanted growing up were psychology, journalist/reporter, meteorology, and the journey that led her to psychology. her experience working for a newspaper in Barbados covering business stories and politics. how growing up on a small island changed her perspective on the world. why she decided to move to the US for college and her experience of taking a class taught by Arthur Ashe. how she learned that she was Black only after coming to the US and a few experiences where she was called the n-word which was quite jarring. [CONTENT WARNING - racial language] how she built her own practice in an effort to have more time with her daughter and only returned to work after her daughter went to college. the big decision she made in 2020 after the murder of Breonna Taylor was to pivot and help organizations with DEI in organizations instead of only being focused on the human experience in the workplace. why she believes that companies should stop asking for data and instead listen to the stories within their organizations. how she nurtures the outer layers of her network. what she is looking forward to in the year ahead. why she says she “came out as Black” and the importance of those words for her. Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com.  

This week's guest is Gena Cox, an organizational psychologist and executive coach. She brings her wisdom to a very insightful conversation we had around leadership, inclusion, and organizational culture in today's workplace. Her stories are extremely applicable and her expertise is undeniable.

Maya Angelou said, You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Today, akaRadioRed welcomes four Creatives who prove her right. Liz H Kelly is the Goody PR and Goody Business Book Awards Founder, author of “8-Second PR” and podcast host of “8-Second Branding” who promotes authors and brands with a WOW story. Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, speaker, and author who uses data-based insights and stories to advise executive leaders at Fortune 500 companies. Judy Gaman is CEO of Executive Medicine of Texas, host of the Stay Young America! Podcast, and author of the memoir” Love, Life, and Lucille: Lessons Learned from a Centenarian.” Dr. Veronica Joseph, D.O.M., is the founder of Awesome Healing Acupuncture, a Tai Chi Chih® Teacher and author of “Unlocking Your Super Life: A Guide to a Healthier and Happier You.” Join us for Read My Lips: You Can't Use Up Creativity!

Maya Angelou said, You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Today, akaRadioRed welcomes four Creatives who prove her right. Liz H Kelly is the Goody PR and Goody Business Book Awards Founder, author of “8-Second PR” and podcast host of “8-Second Branding” who promotes authors and brands with a WOW story. Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, speaker, and author who uses data-based insights and stories to advise executive leaders at Fortune 500 companies. Judy Gaman is CEO of Executive Medicine of Texas, host of the Stay Young America! Podcast, and author of the memoir” Love, Life, and Lucille: Lessons Learned from a Centenarian.” Dr. Veronica Joseph, D.O.M., is the founder of Awesome Healing Acupuncture, a Tai Chi Chih® Teacher and author of “Unlocking Your Super Life: A Guide to a Healthier and Happier You.” Join us for Read My Lips: You Can't Use Up Creativity!

Links for Dr. Gena Cox and resources mentioned in this episode: Feels Human: Feels Human, Inc.LinkedIn: Gena Cox, PhD, PCC - Founder / CEO - Feels Human. Inc. | LinkedIn“Profit First For Minority Business Enterprises” by Susanne Mariga: https://bookshop.org/a/11079/9781735775906Episode with Nike Anani on Generational Wealth: https://diversity-dish.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-33-reversing-generational-poverty-through-generational-wealth  ---------------------Diversitydish.com – How can I be of service?--------------------Other places you can find resources and help support my work:Patreon / Discovery Den: https://www.patreon.com/sedruolamaruskaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sedruolamaruska/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sedruola/Website: http://sedruolamaruska.com/work-with-sedieFacebook: Sedruola Maruska (limited)

Gena Cox, Founder and CEO of Feels Human, is an industrial/organizational psychologist with expertise in measuring and supporting inclusive behaviors. She works with companies to build inclusive organizational cultures. Gena has deep understanding about human dynamics in the workplace and the critical role leaders play. This episode is how to create engaging and inclusive employee experiences which leaders are responsible for.   KEY TAKEAWAYS   [2:57] How Gena got into industrial/organizational psychology.   [04:25] The odd subordination of the human element in business to the operational system.   [5:45] Gena's positive early experience working at a company with a very purpose-built culture.    [07:03] How assessment and evaluation systems are inequitably applied.   [07:44] Leadership became Gena's focus, recognizing the impact individual managers have.    [09:06] How Gena used her expertise in measuring employee opinions and employee experience at IBM.   [10:57] Navigating the ethical challenges associated with using artificial intelligence.   [12:40] Have you ever done an online search for ‘thought leader'? What comes up?   [15:18] Evaluating organizational effectiveness—measuring and identifying what's missing?   [16:02] To improve productivity, organizations need to accept the criticality of managers' behaviors.   [17:30] The (discounted) importance of human experience in the creation of business value.   [19:20] What happens when employees aren't included and asked for their inputs.   [21:30] Why haven't soft skills been emphasized in the workplace?   [22:35] How leaders study leadership but are not trained how to lead.   [26:20] The importance of psychological safety in effective teamwork.   [27:10] Most managers don't feel safe to ask for help, setting them up for failure.   [28:30] Gena describes her unexpected experiences arriving in US for the first time at 20 years old as a person of color.   [31:34] How Gena's experiences influenced her work as an I/O psychologist advising leaders.   [32:30] The problems with finding distinctions and sifting data—especially when insights are held back as leaders do not want to hear them.   [34:08] Who leaders should ask for valuable advice from.   [35:55] George Floyd's murder caused Gena to recognize that she had been being fake.   [36:40] How and why Gena is now combining her I/O expertise and personal and observed experiences to share understanding and insights about inclusion with leaders.   [38:09] Stories from Gena's childhood growing up in Barbados and the United Kingdom growing up.   [40:58] How to create an environment where everyone can flourish.   [42:33] IMMEDIATE ACTION TIP: Inclusion starts at the top, as a leader be convincing in articulating why it matters, establish expectations of behavior, and hold managers accountable.   [44:17] Does Gena feel discouraged?     RESOURCES   Gena Cox on LinkedIn  Gena Cox on Twitter Feelshuman.com Leadership Reckoning by Thomas Kolditz PhD, Libby Gill and Ryan Brown PhD Five Strategies to Infuse D&I into your organization by Gena Cox and David Lancefield   QUOTES   “Industrial organizational psychology has always been about that human element.”   “We found in our research pretty consistently that it's really the manager that is at the core of the employee experience.”   “I would outlaw the use of the word soft skills. What I take that to mean is that the human experience is lesser than all of these other experiences that go into the creation of ‘the thing.'”   “In the context of leadership, it always includes the human experience.”   “I'm trying to shed light on the leader's role and creating an environment in which all of us can flourish.”

  Greater inclusion in the workplace won't happen by itself. It will require strong, dedicated leaders with focus and persistence to shift organizational cultures and create more human workplaces.  To understand how leaders can begin this journey towards greater inclusion, I've invited Gena Cox to the podcast. Gena is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and professional speaker. She is the author of the forthcoming book, “Leading Inclusion” which provides a roadmap for leaders who want to build inclusive organizations.  In this episode, we discuss the importance of how leaders show up in the workplace and the messages they consciously, and sometimes unconsciously, send to their people. We look at how organizational leadership impacts inclusion as well as how leadership is itself impacted in return by an inclusive workplace. We also explore how we can measure progress and the steps each one of us need to take to move towards more inclusive cultures within our organizations. Gena Cox, Ph.D., is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and professional speaker. She is the author of the forthcoming book, “Leading Inclusion” which provides a roadmap for leaders who want to build inclusive organizations. For 25+ years, Gena has advised corporate executives in some of the world's most successful and admired companies, including Mastercard, Hitachi, Scotiabank, NYULangone, American Express, Tech Data, Hershey, The Rock Family of Companies (including Quicken Loans), and Raymond James Financial. Gena has helped hundreds of leaders build more positive organizational cultures and become more effective in their leadership interactions with employees, regardless of their human variations. Gena knows her clients are making progress when ALL their employees say they feel respected at work. SHOW NOTES: To connect with Gena: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox Web: www.feelshuman.com Read her recent Harvard Business Review article on inclusion: https://hbr.org/2021/05/5-strategies-to-infuse-di-into-your-organization INSIGHT AT WORK PODCAST THEME MUSIC: Our theme music is composed by Chris Lucca, Jr.. You can listen to more of Chris' work at http://chrisluccamusic.com  You can also connect with him on Twitter: @Flipluka and on Instagram: @_flipluka.music_ ABOUT THE HOST: Ken Blackwell is a speaker, trainer, facilitator and executive coach. His signature practice is "rescuing Accidental Leaders and Dysfunctional Teams". His firm InKlaritas, based in Princeton, NJ, works with teams and leaders in companies in the U.S. around the world. You can find out more about InKlaritas at: www.InKlaritas.com and connect with Ken on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennethjblackwell/.

Show page: https://www.markgraban.com/mistake113 My guest for Episode #113 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Gena Cox, PhD PCC, an industrial psychologist, executive coach, author, and speaker. She has advised corporate leaders for 20+ years how to build organizational cultures that support innovation, inclusion, and employee engagement. Gena earned a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of South Florida and is also the Founder/CEO of Feels Human, Inc. She has a book coming out in 2022 called Leading Inclusion. In today's episode, Gena shares her “favorite mistake” story about leaving a company in a way she thinks was “cavalier” — regretting that she couldn't recreate that same culture elsewhere. Sometimes, yon't know what you've got until it's gone. We talk about that and other topics including: How did recognition of mistake reveal itself? Feels Human, Inc. — what is a “human first organization” Human first doesn't mean human only? “Inclusive leadership matters” — Beyond being the right thing to do from a human perspective, what are the connections between D&I to business results? Inclusion as a component of “effective leadership” Behaviors that are more inclusive? Diversity easier to measure than inclusion? Definition of inclusion? Blog post — “Why are you always talking about race?” The book — coming 2022, Leading Inclusion --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support

How do you infuse diversity and inclusion into your organization? When it comes to DEI, Diversity Equity and inclusion we all have a vital part to play. In this segment, Dr. Gena Cox who prefers to be called Gena discusses how she uses her credentials and overall knowledge to ensure all aspects are being covered and met holistically. The future of work: Goes into what effective leadership will look like and how everyone can be seen and heard. GEMS - "Diversity and inclusion" is just another name for "great leadership." See video component here - https://youtu.be/aJ4YJarvFHc WHO IS GENA? Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist and executive coach. Gena advises executives on building and leading inclusive workplace cultures that work for all employees, not just a lucky few. Gena is active in the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and serves on advisory boards at the University of South Florida and the University of Tampa. She contributes to national publications, including Harvard Business Review, and holds a Ph.D. in Industrial & Organizational Psychology. GENA'S CALL TO ACTION Reach out to me via LinkedIn or website contact page for a 30-minute initial consultation regarding diversity and inclusion strategy. GENA'S CONTACT INFO https://www.feelshuman.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/genacox GENESIS'S INFO https://thehello.llc/GENESISAMARISKEMP CALL TO ACTION Subscribe to GEMS with Genesis Amaris Kemp Channel, Hit the notifications bell so you don't miss any content, and share with family/friends. **REMEMBER - You do not have to let limitations or barriers keep you from achieving your success. Mind over Matter...It's time to shift and unleash your greatest potential. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/genesis-amaris-kemp/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/genesis-amaris-kemp/support

In this "HBR Minute" HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanhwestover/) explores Gena Cox and David Lancefield's recent HBR video, "5 Ways to Infuse Diversity and Inclusion Into Your Organization." See the video here: https://youtu.be/uXyF_ZGkzWA. Video Overview: "Organizational psychologist Gena Cox and leadership coach David Lancefield offer five strategies for making more progress and creating a more representative, fair, and high-performing workforce." Check out Dr. Westover's new book, 'Bluer than Indigo' Leadership, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/bluerthanindigo. Check out Dr. Westover's book, The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/leadershipalchemy. Check out the latest issue of the Human Capital Leadership magazine, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-magazine. Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 30 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/

At the core, people simply want to be acknowledged as being another human. Humans like to belong and to form a connection over numerous similarities: likes, quirks, or goals. Ironically, there is sometimes a gap in how humans connect when trying to empathize with the human experience. Could it be that each individual is mentally wrapped in their own world? Could it be that individual human experience varies so much that the likeness in the larger human experience is hard to see? To explore this idea of human connection, I discuss being human, showing up authentically, and tapping into empathy with Dr. Gena Cox. Dr. Gena Cox contributes to this world as an industrial psychologist, executive coach, author, and speaker. At this point, she advised corporate leaders for over two decades on creating a work culture where leaders respect, develop, and elevate all employees. She currently provides part of her Heart Value through her company Feels Human Inc. Being an organizational psychologist, Gena pays particular attention to how humans choose to interact with each other. Gena explains that the human connection is the most important factor in organizations, but also the factor that most people don't think about. I speak with Gena to understand more about being more aware of interactions, along with being aware of the choices we make to communicate our value. I want all of us Striders to accept the mindset that it's not just acceptable to voice your value, but it's admirable. On the topic of embracing and advocating the value of self, Gena and I discuss shifting our mindset of fitting in a “box” for the corporate world to focusing on showing up authentically so we connect with who will appreciate us fully, quirks and all. Gena reminds everyone that someone may be waiting to connect, but they won't know unless the authentic connection is initiated. The more you connect and empathize the easier everything else is. Listen to Gena talk through the goal of reducing misunderstood differences and bridging the gap to elevate human connection.   In this episode: [00:23] - Welcome to the show! [01:56] - In this time, more than ever, realize that voicing our value is acceptable and admirable. [03:18] - Gena says employee experiences are majorly based on their managers. [05:52] - Gena tells her favorite example of a leader. [07:45] - Why did Gena name her company Feels Human Inc.? [10:03] - Gena writes this small message whenever she wants to brighten someone's day. [12:42] - I explain the concept of Wise Walks to Gena and ask a few questions to discuss. [14:37] - Gena shares what happens in her new experiment of creating a connection with people by saying “Hello.” [17:20] - Humans have a tendency to create an “us vs. them” dynamic, and it's normal to be different, so Gena emphasizes that there must be a mutual trust of good intention. [19:36] - Gena says she connected with a stranger over a random social media post, which brought joy to her day. [21:11] - I talk about my shift in perspective around fitting in a “box” for the corporate world. [22:19] - Gena gives her take on the skill of fitting in a “box” for the corporate world and what her shift in perspective helped her realize. [23:58] - In order to connect with authentic people, figure out how to maneuver and make choices that showcase your authentic self. [25:49] - Gena says you never know who is waiting to make a connection with you. [27:53] - Thank you for listening!   Memorable Quotes: “We have to voice our value to reclaim our value and activate appreciation, so that we get exactly what we deserve.” - Mary Tess Rooney “If you're brave enough to celebrate your uniqueness, or what makes you different, then you have the opportunity to connect on such a more intimate level.” - Mary Tess Rooney “I want the people who come into my world, who are attracted to me, to be attracted to me in an authentic way, for everything that I am.” - Dr. Gena Cox “Sometimes, the most powerful gift that you can give to someone is to ask them for something that you need.” - Dr. Gena Cox “The one person whose life you're going to change for the better. You probably have no idea that that person is there already waiting for you to reach out to them.” - Dr. Gena Cox “You can only meet the need if you initiate the connection.” - Dr. Gena Cox   Links and Resources: Mary Tess Rooney Email Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram   Gena Cox Email LinkedIn

Dr. Gena Cox is a highly regarded organizational psychologist, executive coach, and speaker. Her passion for building organizational cultures that support inclusion, innovation, and employee engagement, is beyond inspiring. This episode sees her dive into the criteria for being an effective manager or leader, and why we should always put the human experience at the center of work.Gena discusses how enhancing the employee experience requires understanding at all levels where there could be differences in an organization, and explains how to enable managers to make fair and consistent choices for talent mobility – and why you want them to! Gena is currently writing a book for executives and other business leaders who want to lead inclusive organizations but need guidance to ensure their efforts have impact. Connect with her on LinkedIn, Twitter @genacox, or at https://feelshuman.com/For more insightful conversations, visit www.talentexperiencepodcast.com. We hope you enjoy this episode of the Talent Experience podcast!

Diversity can act as a catalyst for a competitive advantage, inclusion of all voices can serve as a concrete commitment by employers which indicates all strengths, opinions and prospective will be valued. However, it all starts with an understanding building sustainable relationships is the key to extended success. Dr. Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist who helps executives figure out which strategies will effectively infuse inclusion into their organization so they can avoid wasting time and money on tactics that do not work. As a strategic advisor, executive coach, and keynote speaker, Gena builds her clients' confidence regarding diversity and inclusion matters, so they can “own” these conversations rather than sitting on the sidelines. Imagine a world in which executives make strategic decisions about diversity and inclusion with the same vigor and conviction they display when the topic at hand is finance or marketing. She joined me this week to tell me more. For more Information: https://feelshuman.com/ LinkedIn: @Gena Cox Email: genacox@feelshuman.com *