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Rachel sits down with DEI strategist Lily Zheng for a candid conversation on the future of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. They explore why real progress depends on focusing less on performative programs and more on outcomes that drive lasting change.Modern Mentor is hosted by Rachel Cooke. A transcript is available at Simplecast.Have a question for Modern Mentor? Email us at modernmentor@quickanddirtytips.com.Find Modern Mentor on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, or subscribe to the newsletter to get more tips to fuel your professional success.Modern Mentor is a part of Quick and Dirty Tips.Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/modern-mentor-newsletterhttps://www.facebook.com/QDTModernMentorhttps://twitter.com/QDTModernMentorhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-mentor-podcast/

Welcome to Brain Snacks: bite sized learning moments from We Are Human Leaders.In today's brain snack, Lily Zheng shares with us how to Rethink Your DEI strategy and ensure inclusion and belonging in your team and organisation.For more, check out the full conversation with Lily right here https://www.wearehumanleaders.com/podcast/deireconstructedFor now, enjoy your Brain Snack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DEI efforts are at a crossroads, and Lily Zheng is here to explain what's broken—and more importantly, what it will take to create real, measurable change in workplaces.Lily is an unapologetically bold DEI strategist, consultant, and best-selling author whose work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and NPR. Their groundbreaking books—DEI Deconstructed, Reconstructing DEI, and Fixing Fairness—lay out practical, evidence-based strategies for building truly inclusive and effective organizations.In this episode, you'll learn:Why traditional DEI efforts often fall short and how to fix them.The four pillars of Lily's FAIR Framework: Fairness, Access, Inclusion, and Representation.How measuring impact can improve DEI efforts and keep practitioners motivated.Strategies for navigating today's societal and political DEI challenges.Why DEI work benefits everyone—and how to communicate that win-win effectively.Through their sharp insights and candid reflections, Lily inspires us to hold the DEI industry to a higher standard while emphasizing the importance of hope, community, and systemic change.Links:Learn more about Lily Zheng: https://www.lilyzheng.co/Follow Lily on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilyzheng308/Buy Lily's books: DEI Deconstructed | Fixing Fairness (coming soon!)Become a part of our community:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diversity_beyondthecheckbox/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/diversity-beyond-the-checkbox-podcast/Website: https://beyondthecheckbox.com/Hosted by Jackie Ferguson, award-winning business leader, best-selling author, and co-founder of The Diversity Movement.Production by Earfluence - https://www.earfluence.com

Carlos Butler-Vale (he/him), Co-Host, Corporate Cafecito Business Podcast, and Founder, Avizo Consulting, and I recap the latest 5 Things (good vibes in DEI) in just 15 minutes. This week our conversation is about history at the Oscars, marriage equality in Thailand, Bloomberg's big investment, and more!Here are this week's good vibes:Bloomberg Stands for Climate ActionHyatt and Carnival Lead Accessibility WaveA Trailblazer's MomentThailand Says 'I Do' to EqualityBrave Rep. Emily RandallGood Vibes to Go: Bernadette's GVTG: Read this article by Lily Zheng in Harvard Business Review in which they present a new framework: What Comes After DEI. Carlos' GVTG: Look for a symphony performance of “Encanto”, the Disney movie, and support the Central Illinois Friends Center, or your local LGBTQ Center. Find yours at CenterLink.Read the Stories.Connect with Carlos Butler-Vale Join thousands of readers by subscribing to the 5 Things newsletter. Enjoy some good vibes in DEI every Saturday morning. https://5thingsdei.com/

In this episode Dino Cattaneo presents a selection from his previous interviews with Lily Zheng and Claudia Scott on the topic of Equity and Inclusion.Today's guest is Contact Dino at: dino@al4ep.comWebsites:al4ep.comAdditional Guest Links:Contact at: LinkedIn: Instagram:Twitter: Authentic Leadership For Everyday People / Dino CattaneoDino on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dinocattaneoPodcast Instagram – @al4edp Podcast Twitter – @al4edp Podcast Facebook: facebook.com/al4edpMusicSusan Cattaneo: susancattaneo.bandcamp.com

Lily ZHeng is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategist, Author and Practitioner. They take a very practical approach, deeply grounded in data and in creating long-term measurable results for the companies they partner with.In this conversation, Lily explains what it means to take a data driven approach to DEI. They share their focus on fostering long-term partnerships with clients truly committed to change, ensuring that DEI efforts are impactful and sustainable. They also give us insights for corporate leaders on what makes an effective DEI practitioner, and some of the steps that a senior executive who wants to embrace a data-driven approach to DEI can take.Contact Dino at: dino@al4ep.comWebsites:al4ep.comlilyzheng.coAdditional Guest Links:Contact at: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lilyzheng308Instagram: @lilyzheng308Books:Reconstructing DEI amazon link: Reconstructing DEIDEI Deconstructed amazon link: DEI DeconstructedAuthentic Leadership For Everyday People / Dino CattaneoDino on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dinocattaneoPodcast Instagram – @al4edp Podcast Twitter – @al4edp Podcast Facebook: facebook.com/al4edpMusicSusan Cattaneo: susancattaneo.bandcamp.com

Author, speaker, and consultant Lily Zheng returns to The Will To Change to discuss their new book, DEI Deconstructed, which centers on accountable and effective practices to achieve DEI outcomes in organizations. Discover why even leaders with the best of intentions find it difficult to achieve the DEI outcomes they desire. Lily also discusses the outcomes that they typically advise leaders to achieve and how to measure them. They also reveal how they work with leaders who may be resistant to DEI efforts.

I've been feeling it lately.  What is the “it” you ask?  It's the apprehension some leaders have when discussing DEI.  Most of us working in this space have experienced this troubling shift in our organizations and/or clients. This got me  thinking…why? In this episode I discuss…Possible reasons why we're experiencing this shiftWhat you can do differently Two disruptive voices to follow  - head on over to their profiles (after you listen to the podcast

Despite ongoing obstacles to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives — such as employee pushback — author and consultant Lily Zheng argues HR leaders should continue to drive DEI outcomes by balancing ownership with individual accountability. Lily joins the Talent Angle to offer advice from their book, “Reconstructing DEI: A Practitioner's Workbook,” based on their book “DEI Deconstructed.”   Lily situates the current DEI landscape within its broader history and outlines how DEI leaders can increase their impact while protecting their own well-being. They also dive into actionable steps for managers who want to advance DEI outcomes yet worry about saying or doing the right thing.   Lily Zheng (they/them) is a no-nonsense DEI strategist, consultant, speaker and author who helps organizations and leaders achieve the DEI outcomes they aspire to. A dedicated practitioner and advocate named a Forbes D&I Trailblazer, 2021 DEI Influencer, and LinkedIn Top Voice on Racial Equity, Lily has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, New York Times and NPR. Their bestselling books, “DEI Deconstructed” and “Reconstructing DEI,” describe cutting-edge, accountable, and effective practices that can enable any leader to create the diverse, equitable and inclusive organizations we all deserve.   Caroline Walsh is a managing vice president in Gartner's HR practice. Her teams help HR leaders build and execute talent, diversity, rewards, and learning strategies and programs. Caroline has also led Gartner research teams on commercial banking strategy and leadership. She holds a bachelor's degree in East Asian studies from Columbia University, and a master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University.

How do you know how diverse your company's workforce is, how equitable its processes are, and how included people feel if nobody is using any metrics? DEI strategist Lily Zheng explains the power of data to track a company's progress, fix unfairness, and hold people to their promises. They have advice for measuring and improving diversity, equity, and inclusion even when you don't have a budget or you're starting from scratch.

In this special bonus episode, Priya Bates and Advita Patel, co-founders of 'A Leader Like Me,' discuss the Society for Human Resources Management's (SHRM) decision to remove Equity from their terminology.  SHRM, a career development membership based in America, equips today's HR professionals with the knowledge, resources, skills, and support to make a true, lasting impact—creating a world of work that works for all. Advita and Priya also discuss the political landscape in the USA following President Biden stepping down from the candidate race and naming Kamala Harris as his nominee. The hosts discuss the challenges Black women and women of color may need to watch out for if Kamala succeeds in being named the leader for the Democrats.  The end the podcast with some of their favorite moments from the season so far.  Resources mentioned in the episode SHRM website: https://www.shrm.org/home  Lily Zheng's post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lilyzheng308_equity-activity-7220125682893254656-gc-X?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop If you want to transform your culture and build better inclusion then get in touch and let's see how we can work together: info@aleaderlikeme.com.  If you're curious about inclusive cultures and want to understand what needs to happen in your organisation to cultivate belonging so you and your colleagues can thrive, you can purchase our book: https://aleaderlikeme.com/book/ 

In this very special episode of latest episode of the Data Podcast for Nerds! Live from the LinkedIn Learning office, two LinkedIn Learning Instructors talk all about the 'fun' parts of data. There's a delicate balance between collecting enough data for your analysis, but not too much where you violate people's confidentiality. But sometimes you have to collect personal and sensitive data. Especially if you are in the same line of work as Lily and conducting demographic analyses. In these cases, it's all about helping businesses make better equity decisions in the workplace while also protecting the data of individuals. Highlights: - Qualitative vs. Quantitative analytics - How discrimination sneaks into the workplace - Accounting for bias in machine learning models - How the human behavior system is involved in it all! Join this very special live episode as we explore the overlap of data security and DEI. Our Courses Protecting Data for Analysis and Machine Learning A Playbook to Achieve Equity Anywhere Where to find Lily LinkedIn Website ****** MERCH!! Grab your ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠nerdnourishment swag⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Data Career Strategy Program ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Book a call⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn more Support If you like what you see, consider ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠buying me a broccoli⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (it fuels my creativity) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nerdnourishment/support

In this episode, we dive into the critical topics of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) within the marketing leadership landscape, with our guest, Lily Zheng. This episode is packed with valuable insights, practical advice, and thought-provoking discussions that will help you navigate DEI challenges in your organization.   Resources Door No. 3 Website Door No. 3 LinkedIn Door No. 3 Instagram   Listen to The Empowered Challenger Podcast with Prentice Howe Connect with Prentice Howe on LinkedIn Connect with Bethany Cranfield on LinkedIn 

Register for a lively four hours with the Amys, their guest experts, and fellow fans of the show. Dorie Clark will talk about working with the ambition you've got right now; Ruchi Sinha building teams' trust in you as a leader and in one another; and Lily Zheng, on where we are now with DEI and where they'd like to see organizations go from here. We'll end with an advice hour, where Amy B and Amy G answer audience questions about leading a team, dealing with conflict, negotiating, or whatever else comes through the chat.

We engage in an inspiring conversation with Matt Nazario-Miller, Communications Manager at Stanford University, and a passionate advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Matt shares his unique journey and sheds light on what real allyship looks like, especially within the LGBTQ+ community. From accidental beginnings in social media to championing inclusive narratives year-round, Matt talks about the important role of higher education professionals in fostering a more inclusive environment on our campuses. Tune in to discover how we can all be a better ally on university social media channels, not just during recognition months but every day. This episode is a must-listen for anyone committed inclusivity and allyship in their work in higher education. Don't miss out on these invaluable insights—subscribe to Enrollify now!Guest Name: Matt Nazario-Miller, M.Ed., Communications Manager, StanfordGuest Bio: With 10 years of marketing communications experience in the education space, Matt Nazario-Miller (he/they) currently serves as a Communications Manager with HR Communications at Stanford University, a strategic role focused on talent management as well as diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging for the staff community. Matt's first full-time roles were in social media strategy, and his experience spans K-12 and higher education. A Bay Area local now living in NYC, Matt is a proudly bi+/queer Latine with a bachelor's degree in Media Studies from USF and an educational master's degree in Student Development Administration from Seattle University.Guest Social: XInstagramThreadsLinkedInAdditional resources:“Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs” by John A. Mueller and Amy L. ReynoldsDEI strategist and author Lily Zheng and her book DEI Deconstructed - - - -Connect With Our Host:Jenny Li Fowlerhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jennylifowler/https://twitter.com/TheJennyLiAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:Confessions of a Higher Ed Social Media Manager is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you'll like other Enrollify shows too! Some of our favorites include Higher Ed Pulse and Confessions of a Higher Ed CMO.Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — the next-generation AI student engagement platform helping institutions create meaningful and personalized interactions with students. Learn more at element451.com.Connect with Us at the Engage Summit:Exciting news — Jenny will be at the 2024 Engage Summit in Raleigh, NC, on June 25 and 26, and we'd love to meet you there! Sessions will focus on cutting-edge AI applications that are reshaping student outreach, enhancing staff productivity, and offering deep insights into ROI. Use the discount code Enrollify50 at checkout, and you can register for just $99! This early bird pricing lasts until March 31. Learn more and register at engage.element451.com — we can't wait to see you there!

Wondering about DEI in International Development? Check out Episode 3, Season 12 of the Podcast with innovator, development practitioner and DEI expert,  Angela Bruce-Raeburn. Her insights challenge the status quo and highlight the necessity of reimagining how development initiatives are conceived and implemented, with a strong emphasis on power dynamics, community leadership, and the urgent need for upskilling to navigate the field's complexities. Critical Reflections: Questioning Development Practices: Angela urges us to critically assess the traditional models of international development. She points out the often overlooked power imbalances and the need for a paradigm shift that truly centers and empowers local communities rather than imposing external solutions. The Power of Local Leadership: Emphasizing the significance of dismantling the top-down approach, Angela advocates for a development model that genuinely values the insights, knowledge, and capacities of local communities. She argues for a shift in power dynamics, where local voices lead and shape their developmental journey. Upskilling for Impactful Careers: For those aiming to contribute meaningfully to the field, Angela shares valuable lessons on upskilling. Understanding local contexts, mastering cross-cultural communication, and navigating the intricacies of power and privilege are crucial competencies. She stresses the importance of continuous learning and adaptation to remain relevant and effective in a rapidly changing landscape. Navigating Challenges: Angela doesn't shy away from discussing the challenges facing the field of international development. From confronting institutional biases to overcoming resistance to change, she offers insights into the perseverance and resilience required to drive genuine progress. Must-Explore Resources:  A few key resources Angela Shares  "DEI Deconstructed" by Lily Zheng for a thorough understanding of DEI  the Netflix documentary "Stamped from the Beginning" by Ibram X. Kendi; Angela's own writing including "But Wait untill they see your Black Face" Why It's Time for Change: Angela Bruce-Raeburn's critique serves as a wake-up call for the international development sector. It's a call to action for reevaluating our approaches, recognizing the inherent power structures, and committing to real change that places equity, inclusivity, and local agency at the heart of development work. Her advice for professionals and aspiring changemakers is clear: upskill with a focus on understanding and dismantling power imbalances, engage deeply with local communities, and be prepared to challenge the norms. This is the path forward for those dedicated to forging impact careers that not only aspire to change the world but do so in a way that is respectful, equitable, and sustainable. Bio: Angela Bruce-Raeburn is the founder of DiverseDEV, a consultancy designed to support international development organizations, NGOs and civil society groups working to improve the lives of marginalized people anywhere in the world. Ms. Bruce-Raeburn is committed to issues around public health and its impact on vulnerable populations having previously served as the Regional Advocacy Director, Africa and Asia at the Global Health Advocacy Incubator – which focused on strengthening advocates for prevention of non-communicable diseases impacting low and middle-income countries. Prior to that, Ms. Bruce-Raeburn worked as the Senior Policy Advisor for the Humanitarian Response in Haiti at Oxfam in the aftermath of the earthquake from 2010 to 2013.  A French speaker, Angela holds three master's Degrees, in Public Administration, Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution. In addition, Angela holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French from Lincoln University, PA which was founded in 1854 as the nation's first degree-granting Historically Black College and University, or HBCU.  Angela has written op-eds on development, race and privilege including Wait Until They See your Black Face and International Development has a Race Problem. Angela's current work is consulting and advising on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Training, speaking to groups about equity and racial diversity and providing guidance to international organizations on developing a DEI ethos for their organization. The goal of this work is to share a perspective of how the lived experiences of racialized people intersect with an international development and a humanitarian system that is inequitable, unjust, and lacking in accountability. PCDN.global News Check out previous Seasons & Episodes of our Award-Winning Social Change Career Podcast. Become a member of the PCDN Career Campus to get daily access (to job opportunities) community (network with other impact professionals); learning with sector-experts and exclusive workshops as well as weekly office hours. Basically a cup of coffee or two for a 24/7 career center for impact professionals.  

Rubén Alejandro Ramírez, Group Head Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Syngenta Group and I will recap the latest 5 Things (good vibes in DEI) in just 15 minutes. This week our conversation is about Apple podcasts becoming more accessible, psychedelics, DEI jobs, and more!Here are this week's good vibes:JPMorgan fully committed to DEIBillionaire couple gifts $100 million to Spelman CollegeDEI jobs alive and wellMore employers offering psychedelic-assisted psychotherapyMore accessible Apple podcastsThis week's Call to Action:Ready to do the work? Check out the book Reconstructing DEI: A Practitioner's Workbook by Lily Zheng to get yourself into action!Read the Stories: https://theequalityinstitute.com/equality-insights-blog/accountabilityConnect with Rubén Alejandro Ramírez:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubenalejandro/ Join thousands of readers by subscribing to the 5 Things newsletter. Enjoy some good vibes in DEI every Saturday morning. https://5thingsdei.com/

As we ring in the New Year it is always a good idea to take a moment and reflect on the past year.  We continue our tradition of doing so by providing a compilation from a few guests who provided timeless advice. Jenna Fisher is the Co-lead of Global Financial Officer Practice at Russell Reynolds Associates and a Wall Street Journal bestselling author with a new book To the Top: How Women in Corporate Leadership Are Rewriting the Rules for Success.  In this conversation, Jenna shares how she interviewed dozens of women who provided inspirational and practical stories that she used in her book.  In addition, she discusses the synergy the book has with her business and what she learned in the process of writing. Mark Miller, is the Vice President of High Performance Leadership, Chick-fil-A Inc. and author of Culture Rules: The Leader's Guide to Creating the Ultimate Competitive Advantage.  Mark gives insight into being an embedded research house within Chick-fil-A and how pragmatism and leadership are the keys to balancing the scales between the two. Lily Zheng is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion speaker, strategist, and organizational consultant. Recently they wrote DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right.  Lily discusses the ebb and flow of DEI in the workplace and how it is something that is needed all the time not just when things go wrong. Jane Hanson is an Emmy Award winning Journalist with thirty years of coaching experience helping people communicate more clearly and efficiently.  Jane shares what thought leadership means to her and how the heart of soul of it is communication.  She discusses knowing your purpose and provides tips and advice for communicating in mediums you might not excel at. Three Key Takeaways: ·         While doing research for a book or any thought leadership, reaching out to a diverse audience can help give you a wider and more balanced perspective. ·         Everything rises and falls with leadership. ·         As a thought leader your purpose needs to be getting the important information you have out into the world for others to hear and use

Despite ongoing obstacles to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives – such as employee pushback – author and consultant Lily Zheng argues HR leaders should continue to drive DEI outcomes by balancing ownership with individual accountability. Lily joins the Talent Angle to offer advice from their book “Reconstructing DEI: A Practitioner's Workbook” based on their book “DEI Deconstructed.” Lily situates the current DEI landscape within its broader history and outlines how DEI leaders can increase their impact while protecting their own wellbeing. They also dive into actionable steps for managers who want to advance DEI outcomes yet worry about saying or doing the right thing. Lily Zheng (they/them) is a no-nonsense diversity, equity, and inclusion strategist, consultant, speaker and author who helps organizations and leaders achieve the DEI outcomes they aspire to. A dedicated practitioner and advocate named a Forbes D&I Trailblazer, 2021 DEI Influencer, and LinkedIn Top Voice on Racial Equity, Lily has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and NPR. Their bestselling books, “DEI Deconstructed” and “Reconstructing DEI”, describe cutting-edge, accountable, and effective practices that can enable any leader to create the diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations we all deserve. Caroline Walsh is a managing vice president in Gartner's HR practice. Her teams help HR leaders build and execute talent, diversity, rewards, and learning strategies and programs. Caroline has also led Gartner research teams on commercial banking strategy and leadership. She holds a bachelor's degree in East Asian studies from Columbia University, and a master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University.

In the pursuit of fostering diversity and inclusion within organizations, we often turn to Chief Diversity Officers (CDOs) as the catalysts for change. However, recent findings have challenged our assumptions about their effectiveness. Did you know that companies with CDOs scored lower on diversity metrics? It's time to rethink the role of CDOs and embrace shared responsibility for driving inclusion. So, how can we effectively redefine the role of Chief Diversity Officers while empowering junior-level employees to initiate positive changes? In this episode, Lily Zheng deep dives into the findings of this recent study on CDOs and diversity metrics, providing thought-provoking insights and actionable strategies. From navigating personal challenges to advocating for inclusivity, they inspire us to challenge the status quo and drive impactful change. Are you ready to be part of the movement? Tune in to the Uplifting Impact podcast and listen to Lily Zheng's transformative episode today. Let's embrace shared responsibility and co-create inclusive workplaces that uplift everyone. Together, we can make a difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Corporate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes are commonplace, and with good reason. They can help with staff satisfaction, retention and improve business outcomes. But all too often they are implemented in incoherent ways. Host Isabel Berwick speaks to Lily Zheng, a DEI strategist and consultant, about how companies can develop initiatives that make a lasting difference.Want more? For a limited time this summer, we're making related articles FREE to read for all Working It listeners. See:Corporate diversity in the crosshairs after US Supreme Court ruling Exits of diversity executives shake faith in US companies' commitmentsRecession is no excuse for going backwards on diversity FT subscriber? Sign up for the weekly Working It newsletter with one click here. We cover all things workplace and management — plus exclusive reporting on trends, tips and what's coming next. We'd love to hear from you. What do you like (or not)? What topics should we tackle? Email the team at workingit@ft.com or Isabel directly at isabel.berwick@ft.com. Follow Isabel on LinkedIn On Twitter, you can follow Isabel at @IsabelBerwickSubscribe to Working It wherever you get your podcasts — and do leave us a review!Presented by Isabel Berwick. Produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa and the sound engineers are Simon Panayi and Breen Turner.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lily Zheng is a sought-after diversity, equity, and inclusion speaker, strategist, and organizational consultant who specializes in hands-on systemic change to turn positive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion intentions into positive DEI outcomes for workplaces. Lily has been featured in and writes for media outlets including the New York Times, NPR, Harvard Business Review, Quartz at Work, and HR Executive. They are the co-author of the book Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace and of a second book, The Ethical Sellout. They are also the author of, DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right. They talk about why DEI initiatives often don't work. And we'll discuss what leaders can do when employees push back on DEI initiatives and when they claim that it is reverse discrimination. Host: Marie-Line Germain, Ph.D. Mixing: Kelly Minnis

When it comes to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, often our intentions don't always have the level of impact we truly want or need. In this conversation with Lily Zheng we deep dive into DEI to explore how to drive impactful, systematic change in our organisations and as individuals. Lily's approach to DEI supports organizations to go far beyond intention into creating measurable, meaningful and quantifiable outcomes in the DEI at work. We learnt an incredible amount about this conversion with Lily, and we know you will too. Let's dive in.

Lily Zheng (they/them) is a no-nonsense Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion speaker, strategist, and consultant who helps organizations and leaders achieve the DEI outcomes they aspire to. A dedicated practitioner and advocate named a Forbes D&I Trailblazer, 2021 DEI Influencer, and LinkedIn Top Voice on Racial Equity, Lily's work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and NPR. Their most recent book, DEI Deconstructed, outlines how any leader can achieve DEI outcomes through cutting edge, accountable, and effective practices. In this episode we will speak about how to help leaders to progress on diversity, equity, and inclusion outcomes, what the challenges are, and how to overcome them to lead a thriving organization You can find more about Lily here: https://lilyzheng.co/home/ , https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilyzheng308/

Lily Zheng (they/them) is a sought-after diversity, equity, and inclusion speaker, strategist, and organizational consultant who specializes in hands-on systemic change to turn positive DEI intentions into positive DEI outcomes for workplaces and everyone in them. With their book, DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right, Lily presents a comprehensive set of solutions that hold organizations and their leaders accountable, laying out the path for anyone with any background to become a more effective DEI practitioner, ally, and leader. For more information on Lily and their work, please visit: https://lilyzheng.co/home/books and https://lilyzheng.co/contact.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showRebel HR is a podcast for HR professionals and leaders of people who are ready to make some disruption in the world of work. Please connect to continue the conversation! https://twitter.com/rebelhrguyhttps://www.facebook.com/rebelhrpodcasthttp://www.kyleroed.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-roed/

In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli speaks with Lily Zheng, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategist and Consultant. Lily Zheng is also the author of DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right. In the conversation, Lily Zheng talked about their upbringing, education, and how it influenced their perspective on race and inequality. Next, Lily Zheng shared why they advocate for a systemic approach to tackling DEI, including outcome-oriented measurements and accountability. Lily Zheng also talked about meritocracy and why complex problems require complex solutions. Finally, Lily Zheng shared examples of how leaders can think about and act on DEI with an outcome orientation benefiting the organization and its team members.  Some Highlights:- The origin of Lily Zheng's sense of responsibility and gratitude- Why do so many diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives fail- How to increase the likelihood of success of DEI initiatives - Lily Zheng on why trying to change hearts and minds is not effective- The importance of creating inclusive environments and how to do it well- Why making the business case for diversity can be counterproductive- How to measure DEI efforts with accountability - What most leaders get wrong about meritocracy in the workplace Also Mentioned:Partnering Leadership Conversation with Jack Philips on Show the Value of What You Do: Measuring and Achieving Success in Any EndeavorConnect with Lily ZhengLily Zheng's Website Lily Zheng on LinkedIn DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right on Amazon Connect with Mahan Tavakoli: Mahan Tavakoli Website Mahan Tavakoli on LinkedIn Partnering Leadership Website

Are you struggling to implement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - or DEI - in your workplace or maintain dedicated funding for DEI initiatives? This month on the Well Woman Show, I interview Lily Zheng, a no-nonsense Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategist, and consultant who helps organizations and leaders achieve the DEI outcomes they need. Their most recent book, DEI Deconstructed, outlines how any leader can achieve DEI outcomes through cutting-edge, accountable, and effective practices. We discuss why organizations struggle with DEI work, why this work is so meaningful, and why it's up to leaders to start the DEI process. The books they mention are: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary) by Michelle Alexander  White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson & Saira Rao  As always, all the links and information are at wellwomanlife.com/314show The Well Woman Show is thankful for support from The Well Woman Academy™ at wellwomanlife.com/academy. Join us in the Academy for community, mindfulness practices, and strategy to live your Well Woman Life.

On this week's Leadership Launchpad Project podcast, Lily Zheng, a no-nonsense Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion speaker, strategist, and author of DEI Deconstructed joins the show. We talk about how to ensure you're getting results from your DEI initiatives, what companies get wrong about DEI and how to systematize your DEI efforts. In this episode, you will learn: ⊛ How to get Results from DEI Initiatives ⊛ How to Bring Root Cause Analysis & Continuous Improvement thinking to DEI ⊛ What Companies get Wrong about DEI We at Elite High Performance specialize in building high impact leaders that turn their teams into happy high-performers who crush their goals. A prime example is our client, MiQ who has increased their revenue by 35% YOY, has 83% employee engagement when the global average is 21% and reduced turnover by 52% YOY. Can you afford to leave revenue, productivity on the table and afford to lose your employees? If you can't, visit elitehighperformance.com for the best, research-backed, high-performance leadership strategies that will build you into a high-impact leader who turns their teams into happy high performers that achieve their goals. Rather than traditional leadership coaching, Elite High Performance blends neuroscience, mindset coaching, high-performance leadership strategies with cutting-edge technology & data to provide a clear path to building a high-performing team - or to turn around an under-performing team. It's the same way professional sports teams combine high-performance coaching, technology and analytics to build a winning sports team. Connect with Lily Zheng on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilyzheng308/ Check out Lily Zheng's website - https://lilyzheng.co/ Check out Lily's article in Harvard Business Review - To Make Lasting Progress on DEI, Measure Outcomes Connect with Susan Hobson on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jumpstartliving/ Connect with Rob Kalwarowsky on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/ Check out Elite's Leadership Programs & Services - https://www.elitehighperformance.com/leadership-consulting/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leadershiplaunchpad/message

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are problems that require long term work in order to provide long term impact. So, why do companies keep seeking "quick fixes" and flashy solutions that just won't work? To understand the issues the industry is facing in DEI, and the hard work needed to change organizations, we've invited Lily Zheng to join us. Lily is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion speaker, strategist, and organizational consultant. Recently, they wrote DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right, a definitive foundational text for critically analyzing and applying actionable DEI techniques and strategies. DEI is an ongoing issue for most organizations, so it's baffling to think of it as a subject that ebbs and flows with trends. Lily explains why this continues to happen, and the dangers it poses to the long term success of DEI in the workplace. We learn that there are no short term fixes or hacks to solving the problem. It's going to take hard data and hard work to concretely change the way people think and act. Lily further shares how they help companies assess their workforce and understand what is going on beneath the surface. By collecting data on employee engagement, retention, promotion rates, and access to opportunity, Lily is able to get a clear picture of the problems the company is facing and provide solutions that change culture in a lasting manner. With so few best-practices and many underdeveloped strategies out there, Lily took it upon themselves to literally write the book on DEI. Today, they share how they hope the book can teach companies to hold themselves accountable, and also provide a critical resource for budding practitioners in the industry. Three Key Takeaways: * Complex problems such as DEI don't have quick fixes. It's the nature of the beast. * Thought leadership is a way to up-skill your audience, allowing those who work with you to "skip the baby steps" and spend more time on the hard stuff. * Data has to be the core of problem solving. You can't provide a solution, when you don't understand the problem.

Zach welcomes back Lily Zheng, a sought-after diversity, equity, and inclusion speaker, strategist, and organizational consultant who specializes in hands-on systemic change to turn positive DEI intentions into positive DEI outcomes for workplaces and everyone in them, and they both sit down to talk about Lily's latest book, DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right. Connect with Lily on LinkedIn. https://bit.ly/3kzIQs2 Check out Lily's website. https://bit.ly/3Z5AuLK Learn more about their book, DEI Deconstructed, on Amazon. https://amzn.to/3lPxGE9 Learn more about Pfizer on their website. https://bit.ly/2TTtZiZ Listen to Pfizer's "The Antigen" podcast today. https://bit.ly/3EIIUQD

In today's episode, Emilie sits down with Lily Zheng, author of DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right, to talk about the steps you can take to identify DEI challenges within your organization and how you can kickstart systemic change. Related Links:Learn more about Lily on Linkedin Grab a copy of: DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It RightEP 327: How to Be An Inclusive Leader | Best of Bossed UpEp 381: How You Can Team Up With HR to Push for More DEI Initiatives Join our Linkedin groupGot a career conundrum you want us to cover on the podcast? Call and leave us a voicemail NOW at 910-668-BOSS(2677).

Tuck speaks with DEI strategist Lily Zheng (they/them). Topics include:  Why pizza can be more useful than a 60-minute workshop Can we DEI our way out of transphobic workplaces? What makes allyship performative? (It's not what you think!) Should corporations be hosting Trans Day of Remembrance events? Plus: does DEI work delay the proletarian revolution?? This Week in Gender: an exclusive Gender Conceal clip with Kirby Conrod about all things -ussy.   Find Lily at lilyzheng.co and on LinkedIn. Listen to Tuck on NPR's It's Been a Minute. Tickets for our Feb. 1 Brooklyn live show are on sale now!  Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we'll read on the show. Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to our monthly bonus podcast, weekly newsletter, and other fun perks. Find episode transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal. Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: DeleteMe (promo code: TUCK20)

LILY ZHENG (they/them) is a no-nonsense Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion speaker, strategist, and consultant who specializes in creating diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces through hands-on systemic change. A dedicated change-maker and advocate named a Forbes D&I Trailblazer, 2021 DEI Influencer, and LinkedIn Top Voice on Racial Equity, Lily's work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and NPR. Their most recent book, DEI Deconstructed, centers on accountable and effective practices to achieve DEI outcomes in organizations. https://lilyzheng.co/home/books Support the showTwitter: GenderStoriesInstagram: GenderStoriesHosted by Alex IantaffiMusic by Maxwell von RavenLogo by Lior Allen

In the past couple of years, the term "DEI" has started popping up *a lot* online, to the point where Googling just those three letters turns up hundreds of hits! However, you would not be alone in admitting that you maybe don't exactly know what DEI...like...is. Fortunately, Lily Zheng (author of the recently-published "DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right") is here to explain everything; not only in layperson's terms, but from a queer perspective! In an incredibly wide-reaching conversation, Lily (they/them) explains how both the acronym "LGBT" and the phrase "people of color" originated as solidarity terms, and demolishes the maddening argument that "it's actually *harder* to be a straight white man right now..." (complete with factual data you can share with all the butthurt people in your life!). Plus, Lauren tells a story that demonstrates why you should NEVER host a tequila drinking contest in your college apartment!Check out https://lilyzheng.co/home/ for more info on Lily (including links to all of their books!), and connect with them on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilyzheng308/.

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/

In Episode 105, Lily Zheng, Consultant at Zheng Consulting, joins Melinda in a discussion on how we can use our power to create real systemic change around diversity, equity, and inclusion. They explore different types of power and practical ways we can build movements that address inequities in the workplace. They also discuss the importance of trust in creating change and how managers can earn their team members' trust by understanding and utilizing the currency of trust when making decisions.About Lily Zheng (they/them)Lily Zheng (they/them) is a sought-after Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion speaker, strategist, and organizational consultant who specializes in hands-on systemic change to turn positive intentions into positive outcomes for workplaces and everyone in them. A dedicated change-maker and advocate named a Forbes D&I Trailblazer, 2021 DEI Influencer, and LinkedIn Top Voice on Racial Equity, Lily's work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and NPR. Their most recent book, DEI Deconstructed, centers on accountable and effective practices to achieve DEI outcomes in organizations.Find Leading With Empathy & Allyship useful? Subscribe to our podcast and like this episode!For more about Change Catalyst, visit https://ally.cc. There, you'll also find educational resources and highlights from this episode.Connect With Lily Zheng On SocialLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilyzheng308/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lilyzheng308Twitter: https://twitter.com/lilyzheng308Connect With Us On SocialYouTube: youtube.com/c/changecatalystTwitter: twitter.com/changecatalystsFacebook: facebook.com/changecatalystsInstagram: instagram.com/techinclusionLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/changecatalystsProduction TeamCreator & Host: Melinda Briana EplerCo-Producers: Renzo Santos & Christina Swindlehurst ChanPodcast Rocket: Rob Scheerbarth & Nina Rugeles[Image description: Leading With Empathy & Allyship promo and photos of Lily Zheng, a Chinese American nonbinary person with dark brown assymetric hair that is half shaved, glasses, black shirt, and black jacket; beside them is the off-white book cover of DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right; and host Melinda Briana Epler, a White woman with blonde and red hair, glasses, red shirt, and black jacket.]Lily's headshot credit: Richard DeVaulConnect with Richard: https://twitter.com/rdevaul | https://www.richarddevaul.com/Support the show

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) expert Lily Zheng shares how organizations can move beyond intentions to achieve actual outcomes and how all consultants can help them.

As part of our VIBE Voices series, which focuses on conversations around valuing inclusion, belonging, and equity for all, Workday Chief Diversity Officer Carin Taylor and DEI strategist and consultant Lily Zheng have a frank discussion about the state of equity in organizations today, what allyship truly means, and how everyone has the power to make change. https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2022/workday-podcast-real-talk-dei-trailblazer.html

Author, Speaker and Consultant Lily Zheng returns to The Will To Change to discuss their new book, DEI Deconstructed, which centers on accountable and effective practices to achieve DEI outcomes in organizations. Discover why even leaders with the best of intentions find it difficult to achieve the DEI outcomes they desire. Lily also discusses the outcomes that they typically advise leaders to achieve and how to measure them. They also reveal how they work with leaders who may be resistant to DEI efforts.

Joining us on today's episode is Lily Zheng author of DEI Deconstructed and a sought-after diversity, equity, and inclusion speaker, strategist, and organizational consultant who specializes in hands-on systemic change to turn positive DEI intentions into positive DEI outcomes for workplaces and everyone in them. Why do DEI efforts fail, is a question asked by many leaders. Why is it that companies claim to be invested in advancing DEI, launching one initiative after another, yet research finds at any one point in time roughly 50% of us feel isolated, excluded, devalued and disengaged at work? There are three reasons why DEI efforts fail, these include fatigue, backlash and denial. When DEI efforts, don't address the root cause of inequality people become tired with all the lip service. This fatigue leads to backlash as people resist effort and initiatives that aim to address discrimination and inequality at work. And when resistance isn't enough, people may resort to denying that inequality exists at all, examples of this include managers simply not believing inequality is a problem in their workplace. Lily explains that it's not that people are tired of doing DEI work, it's that they're tired of doing DEI work that doesn't achieve anything. To address that kind of fatigue we need to be rethinking all of our in initiatives, potentially even doing less, but making sure that we can directly tie every single thing we're doing into the outcomes we're trying to create. Fatigue backlash and denial create the DEI death spiral because it leaves people feeling powerless to affect change. There is nothing I can do to change my workplace, but this simply isn't true Lily gives us these actions to take away. Action One: Get to know the difference between the types of power; formal, reward, coercive and expert power.  Know that everyone within an organization has power, you just have to know how to use it. Action Two: Be strategic in how you use your power and think of your connections within an organization to use your unique power as a tool to make change.  Back this up with expert ideas to aid change to take place. Action Three: Organizing is really powerful. You can organize as part of an employee resource group. You can organize as part of a DEI council or committee, you can organize to encourage and highlight the workforces strengths. All of these are really powerful.   Manifestations of collective power, collective organizing, collective advocacy. They're all tools that all employees have at their disposal to make change within workplaces   Lily Zheng Dei Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right

Do you struggle to maintain your integrity in your personal and professional life, yet face impossible dilemmas that force you to choose between your needs and values?Do you want to take the step from selling out to selling out ethically?If so, Lily Zheng and Dr. Inge Hansen's book, The Ethical Sellout, is for you.In this episode, we dive into the stories of folks Lily interviewed, as well as our own, to discuss culturally-specific conceptions of selling out, the social structures that force people to sell out, the emotions tied to selling out, and more.We also hear about the tough decisions Lily faces as a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant and author, and how she applies the CHANGE framework.Learn more about Lily at http://lilyzheng.co, and learn more about her book at theethicalsellout.comThis episode was originally published in January 2020.How to support bamboo & glass:  

Today on the show, we discuss and celebrate the beauty and resilience of the LGBTQIA+ community. In the wake of recent decisions made by the Supreme Court, I sit down with a prolific author, change-maker, and advocate of the queer community to discuss issues that affect the trans community.   We're excited to welcome to the show Lily Zheng (they/them), a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategist and consultant who works with organizational leaders to turn their positive intentions into positive impact. A dedicated change-maker and advocate, Lily was named a Forbes D&I Trailblazer. They were also named a 2021 DEI Influencer and Top Voice on Racial Equity. In addition, Lily's writing and opinions have been featured in the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, and NPR.   They are the author of Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace (2017), The Ethical Sellout (2019), and most recently DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing it Right, which will be out in November 2022. Lily holds an MA in sociology and a BA in psychology from Stanford University.   Lily is widely recognized as an advocate and a force to be reckoned with. They continue to use their voice to discuss and promote further conversation on effective allyship and advocacy in the workplace. Today we discuss: Core characteristics that contribute to the resilience and strength of the trans and gender-diverse community; Why correct pronoun use is great but insufficient; and Our collective gender socialization, the limitations of the gendery binary, and hegemonic masculinity. Read Lily's wonderfully generous LinkedIn post on advocacy and five critical questions for us to ask ourselves in socially tumultuous times. Inclusion Catalyst invites you to become our next guest host. Learn more here: http://inclusioncatalyst.com/join-us-as-a-guest-host/ Support Inclusion Catalyst by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/inclusion-catalyst This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

While a diverse career path can be rewarding and bring about a great deal of growth, it can also be a journey fraught with imposter syndrome, anxiety and unforeseen challenges. This episode of State of Mind digs into resilience's role in riding the rollercoaster of ups and downs in our professional lives. Our guest, Lily Zheng, is the Partner of Business and Development Leads for the Greater China Region at Microsoft. In this conversation, Lily shares a few of the challenges she experienced throughout her successful and 20-year plus career at Microsoft, how she dealt with them and what she learned from overcoming these difficulties. In this conversation, we spoke about: - Lily's key learnings from having to prove herself and take on new challenges and opportunities - The vital role of great mentors and managers in helping employees to grow and tackle new opportunities - How we can all remain resilient when facing challenges with our career

“DEI work is deep work. You can't create systemic change unless people have adequate time for self-reflection and self-awareness and behavioural change.” - Carrie Burd DEI training is more and more commonly available, and this is a good thing! It can, however, be daunting in terms of figuring out what credential to pursue as a Talent Leader, and how to go beyond one-off DEI training sessions and into systemic change that is observable and palpable. What are some ways you can build strong DEI practices into the various systems that make up the employee experience in your organization? Listen to this episode for some practical ideas and examples. My guest is Carrie Burd, a seasoned Talent Leader who is now heading her own consulting agency where she has a particular focus on DEI and workplace wellness. Carrie is highly committed to learning and models the way for her clients. In this episode of Talent Management Truths, you'll discover:

Episode Highlights: Why knowing the current baseline / status of an organization is key before working with them  The common differences in culture, setup, etc. between organisations at the start of the journey vs those more advanced A few of the challenges facing organizations who are starting from scratch What it's like working with organisations who may be more advanced in their journey  Why we need to understand what the different dimensions of diversity, equity and inclusion work looks like  Why we need to help organizations to understand where they should start on their journey   NB: Please excuse the incorrect use of pronouns when referring to Lily Zheng. This was a genuine mistake.    If you'd like to discuss how Ashanti Bentil-Dhue can work with you, please book a call: https://calendly.com/ashantibentildhue/meeting-with-ashanti?back=1&month=2022-04  Featured in the Episode: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lilyzheng308_diversity-equity-inclusion-activity-6874764805220237312-7Bcc/   Did you know we have another podcast specifically for practitioners, consultants and DEI leads (whether internal or external)? Check it out here:  Confessions of a DEI Practitioner Podcast Stay Connected with Ashanti: LinkedIn: Ashanti Bentil-Dhue  Get in Touch: ashanti@benhue.com

Episode Highlights: Why knowing the current baseline / status of an organization is key before working with them  The common differences in culture, setup, etc. between organisations at the start of the journey vs those more advanced A few of the challenges facing organizations who are starting from scratch What it's like working with organisations who may be more advanced in their journey  Why we need to understand what the different dimensions of diversity, equity and inclusion work looks like  Why we need to help organizations to understand where they should start on their journey And so much more!   NB: Please excuse the incorrect use of pronouns when referring to Lily Zheng. This was a genuine mistake.    If you'd like to discuss how Ashanti Bentil-Dhue can work with you, please book a call: https://calendly.com/ashantibentildhue/meeting-with-ashanti?back=1&month=2022-04    Featured in the Episode: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lilyzheng308_diversity-equity-inclusion-activity-6874764805220237312-7Bcc/   Have you heard our sister podcast series called, the Good Soil Leaders Podcast?  We reveal exactly what you need to know and to be aware of as a corporate organization when selecting and engaging the right Diversity, Equity and Inclusion experts. We also cover how you could prepare your key stakeholders, your organization for the culture change that you desire. Find out and Listen more on Good Soil Leaders Podcast Stay Connected with Ashanti: LinkedIn: Ashanti Bentil-Dhue  Get in Touch: ashanti@benhue.com  

In today's episode, you'll listen to the best bits from some of our favourite guests from the first five seasons of Be More. Featuring: Brady Pyle, Larissa Conte, Laurie Ruettimann, Elena Valentine, Lily Zheng and Chris Dyer.

In this episode, Patrick is joined by Lily Zheng, an Independent Organizational Consultant focusing on diversity and inclusion. They discuss how to maintain integrity in the age of compromise, the relationship of trust between organizations and their employees, and why everyone sells out.

It's time to rethink what's working in the modern workplace and what's failing. Amid a pandemic that overturned how so many work, increased calls for racial and social justice put a new pressure on companies to ensure — or at least to seem as if they ensure — equality among their employees. Diversity, equity and inclusion (D.E.I.) programs are an increasingly popular solution deployed by management. But do these initiatives do marginalized employees any good? And who are the true beneficiaries of diversity programs, anyway?Jane Coaston has spent years on the receiving end of diversity initiatives, and for that reason, she's skeptical. To debate D.E.I. programs' efficacy, she brought together Dr. Sonia Kang, the Canada Research Chair in Identity, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Toronto, and Lily Zheng, a D.E.I. strategy consultant and public speaker, to argue what works and doesn't when it comes to making workplaces fair for all.Mentioned in this episode:Sonia Kang's podcast, “For the Love of Work,” episode “Leaning Into Diversity, Equity and Belonging”Lily Zheng, Harvard Business Review, “How to Show White Men That Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Need Them”Kim Tran, Harper's Bazaar, “The Diversity and Inclusion Industry Has Lost Its Way”Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev “Why Diversity Programs Fail”The Washington Post, “To improve diversity, don't make people go to diversity training. Really.”

ASHLEY PARK is a Tony Award nominated actress, currently starring as “Mindy” in the hit television series Emily in Paris. For her performance, she became the first Asian American Actress to receive a Critics' Choice Nomination for “Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.” She will next appear in Bleecker Street's upcoming feature Mr Malcom's List. On stage, Park is perhaps best known for originating the role of “Gretchen Wieners” in the Broadway production of Tina Fey's Mean Girls. In addition to her Tony nomination, she received Drama League, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Chita Rivera Award nominations for her performance in Mean Girls. That same season, Park garnered critical acclaim for starring as “Mwe” in KPOP, for which she won the esteemed Lucille Lortel Award for Lead Actress in a Musical and was nominated for her second Drama League and Drama Desk Awards of the season. Other Broadway credits include: Grand Horizons; Mamma Mia!; The King and I; and the recent revival of Sunday in the Park with George. On television, Park reunited with Tina Fey for Peacock's new hit series GIRLS5EVA and was previously seen in the critically-acclaimed Netflix limited series Tales of the City. Other television credits include Apple TV+'s Helpsters and PopTV/Lionsgate Television's Nightcap. Park is the proud recipient of Actor Equity Association's 2018 Clarence Derwent Award, and in 2019 was honored with the inaugural Marin Mazzie Award for Empowerment by the Cancer Support Community. Her outreach as a social activist and a cancer survivor has stayed important to her through her dedicated work and support of service organizations such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS. Park graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in Musical Theater.Weekly Round-Up:Listen to the Still Processing podcast episode with Cathy Park Hong.Read the Harvard Business Review article, “To Dismantle Anti-Asian Racism, We Must Understand Its Roots” by Lily Zheng.Listen to Krista Tippett's On Being podcast episode, “A Life Worthy of Our Breath” with Ocean Vuong.Watch highlights of the late Marin Mazzie in The King and I, which she starred in with Ashley.

In this episode, Patrick is joined by Lily Zheng, an Independent Organizational Consultant focusing on diversity and inclusion. They discuss how to maintain integrity in the age of compromise, the relationship of trust between organizations and their employees, and why everyone sells out.

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Corporations had a lot to say about racial justice last summer. They made statements. They donated millions to civil rights organizations. They promised to address their own problems with diversity and representation. A year later, NPR's David Gura reports on Wall Street's mixed progress.Kim Tran tells NPR's Sam Sanders that the diversity, equity and inclusion industry has lost its way.And DEI consultant Lily Zheng talks about their front row seat to corporations varied efforts to change culture and practices.In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

Corporations had a lot to say about racial justice last summer. They made statements. They donated millions to civil rights organizations. They promised to address their own problems with diversity and representation. A year later, NPR's David Gura reports on Wall Street's mixed progress.Kim Tran tells NPR's Sam Sanders that the diversity, equity and inclusion industry has lost its way.And DEI consultant Lily Zheng talks about their front row seat to corporations varied efforts to change culture and practices.In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

Sheri is the author of the upcoming book Giving a Damn about Accessibility, and a speaker at Design at Scale 2021 this June 9-11. In this latest Rosenfeld Review podcast, she discusses the critical importance of starting projects and products with a mindset of accessibility. Spoiler alert: it’s far more difficult to go back later. VMWare, where Sheri is currently an Accessibility Architect, recently launched an Accessibility Champions program, increasing their hires with disabilities and those with interest in specialized training. She and Lou talk through the program and other ways you can scale accessibility—even while acquiring new companies, as Sheri has experienced (more than ten in two years!) Interested in learning more? Check out Sheri’s presentation at DAS2021: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/design-at-scale-2021/sessions/accessibility-at-scale/ Sheri recommends: Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School https://habengirma.com/ Lily Zheng, DEI Consultant https://lilyzheng.co/ Sheri Byrne-Haber is a prominent global subject matter expert in the fields of disability and accessibility. She is best known for launching digital accessibility programs at multiple Fortune 200 companies, including McDonald’s, Albertsons, and VMware, as well as consulting on government and education accessibility. Sheri’s award-winning Medium blog summarizes legal cases and issues facing people implementing accessibility programs, with over 300,000 readers since its launch. Sheri is a frequent panelist and speaker at accessibility related conferences and an active member of several accessibility committees and non-profits, helping drive and communicate the evolution of accessibility standards.

Episode #7 with Lily Zheng: The Tactics and Boundaries of the Ethical Sellout: Avoiding Purity Politics and Cancel Culture in DEI-Focused Work Would you like to attend? The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse with Special Guest, Lily Zheng, DEI Strategist and Consultant and Author of The Ethical Sellout and Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace In this Episode, Lily talks all about their book project The Ethical Sellout While tackling the complexities and need for greater collaboration with DEI practitioner discourses. And discussing these questions: • How do we have conversations around the issues that matter most to us as marginalized people and work to support one another rather than tear each other down? • Why does purity politics and cancel culture even happen within DEI? • What is Manichaeism and how does it affect our outlook when hearing something that doesn't land well on us? • And how can we have compassion when we or others make mistakes and the tools to allow for one another to be human. And to grow and change. To better our DEI efforts and communities? —We discuss these questions and so many more.

We're taught that compromise is a necessary part of growing up. “Selling out,” on the other hand, is stepping over a line. To be a “sell out” is to be greedy, uncaring, selfish, maybe even traitorous in some way, like the politician who leaves campaign promises unfulfilled after meeting with deep-pocketed lobbyists, or a musician who turns his back on his roots after signing a big record deal. But what if “selling out” isn't necessarily such a moral failure? And what if we could actually learn to sell out “ethically”? Our guest https://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Sellout-Maintaining-Integrity-Compromise/dp/1523085843/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Lily+Zheng&qid=1615263618&s=books&sr=1-1 (Lily Zheng) offers her “sell-out story” and argues for a more expansive context for the ethical challenges we're all faced with in our daily lives. 

Zach sits down with Lily Zheng, author, consultant, speaker, and all around DE&I Thought Leader to discuss anti-Asian racism, systemic oppression, the failures of corporatized D&I, and their book, The Ethical Sellout - make sure you tune in! You can connect with Lily on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. https://bit.ly/3kzIQs2 https://bit.ly/3025C23 https://bit.ly/3b82F6H Find out more about their book, The Ethical Sellout, on Amazon. https://amzn.to/3b82aJR Check out Lily's personal website. https://bit.ly/2PhIWc4

Sarah Park-Thompson is the Director of Career Services at Harvey Mudd College. She has been in career services working at various institutions for about a decade, most recently at UCLA. Before that, she also worked in diversity inclusion and academic advising. She received her BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Carleton College and her Master's in Student Development in Postsecondary Education from the University of Iowa.

In this episode, Patrick is joined by Lily Zheng, an Independent Organizational Consultant focusing on diversity and inclusion. They discuss how to maintain integrity in the age of compromise, the relationship of trust between organizations and their employees, and why everyone sells out.

A lack of legal protection in many parts of the world leaves many transgender employees vulnerable. Few countries offer legal protection against discrimination of transgender people. This week is transgender awareness week - what role do companies play in the rights of transgender people? Manuela Saragosa speaks to Caroline Paige, joint chief executive of a UK pressure group called Fighting with Pride. In 1999 she became the first transgender officer to transition openly while serving in the UK Armed Forces, some 19 years after she’d first joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot. South African author of The Pink Line, Mark Gevisser describes the fight to get laws to protect transgender people from discrimination as a new culture war along a human rights frontier. He says one of the most significant markers is which countries allow people to legally change their gender on official documents. Manuela also speaks to Lily Zheng who is a diversity consultant to businesses and organisations and is herself transgender and to Thai university lecturer Kath Khangpiboon, living and working as a woman in Thailand although official documents only recognise her as male. Pic of Kath Khangpiboon, via Kath Khangpiboon

Lily Zheng, Author, Organizational Consultant and DE&I Changemaker, joins the program to discuss how organizations can move beyond performative allyship and create real change. Discover a powerful stepping stone for leaders, and the need to focus on high-impact behaviors.     

From The Best of The Will To Change: Diversity and inclusion expert, author, and executive coach, Lily Zheng, joins the program to discuss how to affirm gender expression in the workplace and the leadership skills that are necessary to validate all gender identities. She also discusses the importance of self-awareness in discerning how to best create change, whether that is from the ground up or through influencing those at the top of an organization. Lily also debunks some of the most persistent myths about what it takes to be an ally and activist.

I work with leaders and changemakers to champion diversity and create the innovative, inclusive organizations of the future. Recently named in Forbes Magazine's "10 Diversity And Inclusion Trailblazers You Need To Get Familiar With." https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilyzheng308/

We get an update on what men are doing or should be doing to support the women they work with. And we talk about our role in helping them help us. Guests: Brad Johnson, David Smith, and Lily Zheng. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

Chris and Mark talk to Alex Bradley - senior product marketing manager and teamwork narrative lead focused on all things Modern Workplace. Alex shares more about how Microsoft has responded to the COVID-19 crisis to help customers adjust to a remote work force, move to recovery, reduce costs and manage risk. And learn about Alex's webcast and podcast series, Modern Workplace, where he's been talking a lot with Jared Spataro, CVP of Microsoft 365, about what we’ve learned about remote work and staying connected.   Resources and Info Links: Tech Community SharePoint Blog Post SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |@mkashman Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 Alex Bradley | LinkedIn Modern Workplace | site + webcast series| podcast   1 month in, what we've learned about remote work (recent Modern Workplace podcast episode) What we've learned about remote work (recent Modern Workplace video) COVID-19 Business Resource Center on LinkedIn How remote work impacts collaboration by Jared Spataro Working remotely during challenging times by Lily Zheng, Director, Microsoft China Stay productive while working remotely: Tips for effective remote work One architect's radical vision to replace the open office on WSJ   Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home SharePoint community blog Microsoft 365 public roadmap Stay on top of Office 365 changes   Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone

In this two-part discussion, Dr. Hansen and I talk about shifts in mental health approaches and offer suggestions to help reframe the subtle yet strategic outcomes. In the beginning portion of our discussion, Dr. Hansen wears her hat as the director of the Stanford's Well-being Initiative and speaks on her perspective of the ‘pillars of well-being'. She elaborates on her experience by introducing 8 main pillars of wellbeing that focus to offer an approach of holistic care to students and staff. These pillars include, Eat, Connect, Sex, Sleep, Money, Feel, Seek, and Move. As times have changed, so have mental health tactics. When it comes to the discourses around mental health, there seems to be a global shift from a disease-based model to a more holistic, accepting, and integrated model. We used to believe that the absence of disease meant wellness and now we are reframing our lens to look into a person's overall sense of wellbeing. With this in mind, Dr. Hansen brings her realistic and practical tips to help us look at creating balance amongst all these factors. In the second half of our conversation, Dr. Hansen shifts gears and wears her hat as the co-author of The Ethical Sellout. Through this perspective she guides us to make sense of what may seem as some rather impossible decisions that we have to make in our daily lives. With this frame of reference, Dr. Hansen provides a structure to help us maintain our integrity in the age of compromise. Dr. Inge Hansen is a Clinical Psychologist and Director of Well-Being at Stanford University. She is also the co-founder and Director of the Weiland Health Initiative, which is dedicated to promoting mental health and wellness across all genders and sexualities. This initiative has generated a variety of innovative clinical and educational programs at Stanford and beyond.  Dr. Hansen is also a co-founder of Gender-Inclusive Stanford, a campus-wide initiative dedicated to improving the campus environment for trans and non-binary students. Dr. Hansen has developed several new academic courses in the realm of gender and sexualities, including Challenging Sex & Gender Dichotomies in Medicine, Human Sexual Diversity and Health, and Transgender Studies.  She is a popular speaker and consultant on diversity and inclusion topics. Last spring she was the inaugural winner of the Christine Griffith Award for Student Well-Being. For four years she has had the honor of co-organizing and hosting North America's World Sexual Health Day together with Dr. Sara Nazzerzadeh. Dr. Hansen's book, The Ethical Sellout, co-authored with Lily Zheng, was released in October 2019

A lot has changed in the past month. The way we work and live has changed. All of us are living this new reality right now, juggling home and work, caregiving and breadwinning. At Microsoft, it's been inspiring to see and hear stories of how the tools we all work on are helping people stay connected and productive. We have learned a lot in a short time. Alex talks again with Microsoft CVP Jared Spataro, who has been on Teams calls with employees, and working with customers and partners of all sizes and sectors in how to best respond to the new reality.   Crisis response mode within Microsoft and beyond [02:30] Can we still be productive? [12:30] Can we do well by doing good? [28:45]   Resources and Links: Alex Bradley | @amcgb | LinkedIn Jared Spataro Microsoft 365 | @Microsoft365 | LinkedIn Microsoft Tech Community Listen, watch and learn more at ModernWorkplace.com.   COVID-19 Business Resource Center on LinkedIn "Working remotely during challenging times" by Lily Zheng, Director, Microsoft China "Stay productive while working remotely: Tips for effective remote work" "2 weeks in: what we’ve learned about remote work" "The top 9 ways Microsoft IT is enabling remote work for its employees" "Staying productive while working remotely with Microsoft Teams" "Digital transformation of live events: observations from the frontline" "25+ years in telemedicine makes this entrepreneur ready to help during the pandemic," Forbes   Listen and Subscribe Here: Site: http://modernworkplace.mpsn.libsynpro.com/ Listen and subscribe to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Apple Podcasts  Spotify iHeart  Google Podcasts 

We are committed to helping organizations stay connected and productive. From COVID-19 to weather emergencies, our focus is the importance of establishing open lines of communication and information flow. Chris and Mark highlight three solutions - across Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Power Apps - that help everyone stay briefed on the situation and any business impacts. Through crisis management and good planning, technology can help keep business continuity in a move to increased remote working. Social and Info Links: SharePoint Facebook | @SharePoint | SharePoint Community Blog | UserVoice OneDrive Facebook | @OneDrive | OneDrive Community Blog | UserVoice Mark Kashman |@mkashman Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 Microsoft Teams | Twitter | Blog | Training Power Apps | Twitter | Blog | Training Resources: Build a crisis management site to connect people and information Keeping employees informed and engaged during difficult times Working remotely during challenging times. A 'letter to customers' from Lily Zheng, director Microsoft China. Our (Microsoft) commitment to customers during Covid-19 Staying productive while working remotely with Microsoft Teams 4 Tips for working from home with Microsoft Teams Support remote workers using Microsoft Teams [admin] Instructor-led training for Microsoft Teams [admin] Crisis Communication: a Power Platform template [Power Apps] Keeping employees informed and engaged during difficult times [Yammer] Good Twitter feeds to broadly keep informed: @CDCemergency, @CDCgov, & @WHO. Plus a few related ‘how to build SharePoint sites’ videos: Build an intelligent intranet featuring SharePoint home sites Build an Employee Engagement Experience with Yammer, SharePoint & Stream How to build an impactful SharePoint communication site in under 10 minutes Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.  Microsoft Tech Community Home Stay on top of Office 365 changes Listen to other Microsoft podcasts Upcoming Events: SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events (numerous cities have been postponed) Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (remaining cities worldwide have been canceled) MS Business Applications Summit (May.6-7; virtual) SharePoint Conference 2020 in-person has been postponed; moved to March 2021 Collab365 #GlobalCon2, June 15-19, 2020 Subscribe to The Intrazone: Listen to other Microsoft podcasts at aka.ms/microsoft/podcasts Show Page: https://aka.ms/TheIntrazone Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Stitcher TuneIn Overcast Pandora RadioPublic iHeart RSS

How do you balance your authentic self, your values, and your identity with the compromises your career and life may demand. In the book THE ETHICAL SELLOUT, Lily Zheng, and co-author Inge Hansen share stories of those facing that same dilemma, and their ideas on how to maintain your integrity while making compromises. My guest Lily Zheng is a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant whom works with organizations to build more inclusive and innovative workplaces. She is also the author of Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace: Transgender and Gender-Diverse Discrimination.

How do you balance your authentic self, your values, and your identity with the compromises your career and life may demand. In the book THE ETHICAL SELLOUT, Lily Zheng, and co-author Inge Hansen share stories of those facing that same dilemma, and their ideas on how to maintain your integrity while making compromises.My guest Lily Zheng is a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant whom works with organizations to build more inclusive and innovative workplaces. She is also the author of Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace: Transgender and Gender-Diverse Discrimination.

Do you struggle to maintain your integrity in your personal and professional life, yet face impossible dilemmas that force you to choose between your needs and values?Do you want to take the step from selling out to selling out ethically?If so, Lily Zheng and Dr. Inge Hansen's book, The Ethical Sellout, is for you.In this episode, we dive into the stories of folks Lily interviewed, as well as our own, to discuss culturally-specific conceptions of selling out, the social structures that force people to sell out, the emotions tied to selling out, and more.We also hear about the tough decisions Lily faces as a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant and author, and how she applies the CHANGE framework.Learn more about Lily at http://lilyzheng.co, and learn more about her book at theethicalsellout.com Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bambooandglass)

Many organizations recognize the importance of being diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI), but don't know how to motivate everyone to work together to make that a reality. In this episode, Lily Zheng shares about her career as an organizational consultant, executive coach, author, and design researcher who works with organizations to create healthy, inclusive, and innovative workplaces. We learn about her advocacy work as a student and administrator at Stanford University, and hear her perspective on questions including:How do you respond when people lament that diverse hires "lower the bar"?How can new organizations invest in institutionalized resources that match the size and responsibilities of their organization as it scales? Most media coverage of DEI is about DEI fails. What do you think are the most impactful practices that we should be celebrating?More about Lily Zheng: Zheng is a coauthor of Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace and The Ethical Sellout, she has written for dozens of media outlets, including the New York Times, Quartz at Work, Entrepreneur, and Psychology Today. Zheng frequently speaks at companies such as Google, Affirm, and Entelo. Zheng received her master's degree in sociology from Stanford University. She also received the Lyons Award for Service, the Outstanding Achievement Award, and the President's Award for Excellence through Diversity from Stanford University. Recently, she was named in Forbes Magazine's "10 Diversity And Inclusion Trailblazers You Need To Get Familiar With." Articles mentioned in the episode:https://hbr.org/2019/07/its-not-your-coworkers-job-to-teach-you-about-social-issueshttps://hbr.org/2019/10/how-to-show-white-men-that-diversity-and-inclusion-efforts-need-themFollow Lily Zheng:https://twitter.com/lilyzheng308http://lilyzheng.co/https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilyzheng308/Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bambooandglass)

Is it possible to create good content, maintain your integrity, and pay your bills? In our season finale, we’re taking on the Content Industrial Complex. We talk with Sarah Lessire, senior content producer at Culture Amp, about how to stay creative when there’s always something to do (6:00). Consultant and author Lily Zheng joins us to discuss her new book, “The Ethical Sellout: Maintaining Your Integrity in the Age of Compromise” — and why figuring out the right thing to do is never as simple as it seems (12:06). This is the final episode of Margins Season Two. Check out all 6 episodes in this season, and if you like them, tell your friends! We’ll be back soon with our next season. Click here for more about Margins from Managing Editor: http://www.managingeditor.com/podcast Subscribe to our Friday morning email: http://www.managingeditor.com/subscribe

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes authors Lily Zheng and Inge Hansen to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss their new book THE ETHICAL SELLOUT: Maintaining Your Integrity in the Age of Compromise and what they hope readers take away from it. 

Author and Organizational Consultant, Lily Zheng, discusses corporate Pride, LGBTQ+ policy considerations and expanding the inclusion conversation beyond the margin.To read the full show notes and transcript visit us at illuminatehrpodcast.comThis episode brought to you by Lumity, visit lumity.com to learn moreSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/illuminatehr)

Lily Zheng is an organizational consultant, executive coach, and diversity & inclusion expert who works with organizations to turn positive intentions into positive impact. She works to create just, inclusive, and innovative workplaces for her clients through data-driven assessments, strategic advising, training, and collaborative content creation. A dedicated change maker and advocate, she has co-authored multiple books and had her work published in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, and HR Executive.

Lily Zheng is an organizational consultant, executive coach, and diversity & inclusion expert who works with organizations to turn positive intentions into positive impact. She works to create just, inclusive, and innovative workplaces for her clients through data-driven assessments, strategic advising, training, and collaborative content creation. A dedicated change maker and advocate, she has co-authored multiple books and had her work published in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, and HR Executive.

Lily Zheng empowers employers to create inclusive workplace environments through policy recommendations, trainings and best practices. She is also a diversity and inclusion consultant, executive coach, and design researcher who helps people and organizations transform their positive intentions into positive impact. She is being guided by her unwavering commitment to creating more inclusive and equitable systems that can empower all people to not only survive, but thrive.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diversity and inclusion expert, author, and executive coach, Lily Zheng, joins the program to discuss how to affirm gender expression in the workplace and the leadership skills that are necessary to validate all gender identities. She also discusses the importance of self-awareness in discerning how to best create change, whether that is from the ground up or through influencing those at the top of an organization. Lily also debunks some of the most persistent myths about what it takes to be an ally and activist.

Stanford Pathfinders with Howard Wolf: "Workplace Activism with guest Lily Zheng" Author, consultant, and activist Lily Zheng talks about some of the successes and hardships that the trans community is facing in corporate America. Lilly shares some of the surprising findings she experienced while researching her book, “Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace: Transgender and Gender-Diverse Discrimination”. Originally aired on SiriusXM on October 6, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video.

Lily Zheng, author, consultant and activist, discusses some of the successes and hardships that the trans community is facing in corporate America and shares surprising findings from the research for her book, Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace: Transgender and Gender-Diverse Discrimination.

The Hoes talk capitalism woes, a pregnancy scare, talking versus texting, catching feelings & more. Bae(s) of The Week: @papaganda, @derekachadwick  & @ashleighchubbybunny Hoe(s) of the Week: Karen, Danielle Ellis aka lawyer bae, Lily Zheng, Roselyn, Amberlynn R, Jasmine K, Calvin Pierce Jr, Rob & Eli Saddiq Self Care Tips: Don’t let capitalism turn you into a machine Fuck Me (Our Lives): independent monogamy, abstaining from dick, a pregnancy scare, old anniversaries, anger issues, handling conflict better, being scared to give birth, will you risk your life for your child, disillusioned with marriage, texting vs. talking, selfishness, compromise, weight loss journey, and missing feeling full of food Fuck You (Your Lives): journeying into hoe-dom, age gap fuck buddy, don’t let the neighbors know, getting attached, catching feelings, what to do about your boyfriend and sugar daddy and a Former cheater discovers they are polyamorous. HASHTAGS Use #InnerHoeUprising and #Podin to keep up with this conversation on social media and let others know that you are listening.  FREE GIVE AWAY Follow this link: https://apple.co/1OUpOUo Hit the purple “Subscribe” at the top of the page Scroll down to “Ratings and Reviews” Click the Button “Write a Review” Chose a Unique nickname Tap 5 stars, write a nice title and review. Hit send We will randomly be selecting a winner who we will announce by the end of spring, so stay tuned. RELEVANT LINKS AND NOTES Gender Ambiguity in the Work Place By Lily Zheng & Alison Fogarty WEBSITE 
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It's not great for your mental health when strangers are constantly asking you about your genitals, and for folks in the trans or gender-nonconforming community, that's not even the tough stuff. This GROUP is all about mental health and being trans, and how those things go together in a society that can be pretty idiotic. Featuring conversations with clinical psychologists lore m. dickey and Matthew Oransky and interviews with trans activists Lily Zheng, Dylan Kapit, and Cathy Ann Serino. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.